Sr Mechanical Estimator

About the role

This role offers real influence, close collaboration with operations, and long-term growth within a respected, family-owned company known for safety, innovation, and career development.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Track productivity on past projects and follow up on past awards.
• Fill in minor and major scope/design gaps.
• Provide detailed breakouts for customers.
• Provide extensive value engineering ideas.
• Review all project documents and identify scope of work.
• Material, labor, and equipment takeoffs.
• Walk difficult projects.
• Identify and document difficult/non-standard conditions.
• Clarify scope with General Contractor and Engineer.
• Absorb and coordinate/qualify scope with vendors and subcontractors.
• Coordinate and clarify scope internally and externally.
• Assist Preconstruction team during project turnover to Operations.

Qualifications

• College/University graduate preferred with 10 years relevant experience or equivalent combination of skills and experience with proven specialist expertise including fiscal responsibilities.
• Independent decision making.
• Responsible for a single department or functional area either as a manager or functional expert.
• Initiates and maintains relationships with key staff and other departments.
• Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations having important impact on activities of the company.
• Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented complexities.
• Determines program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects and developing standards and guidelines for diverse activities.

Minimum Physical Requirements And Accountability

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: stand, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and a variety of office equipment.
• Occasionally may need to reach, stoop, or kneel.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.

What Sets RK Industries Apart

• Safety: Our unmatched culture of safety is our foremost core value, guiding everything we do each day.
• Health, Safety, & Environmental Awards: Whether in Construction, Manufacturing, Fabrication, or Service, RK Industries is highly recognized and accredited throughout the industry.
• Accreditations & Recognition: Benefits: RK Industries offers competitive benefits to support your growth and well-being.
• Benefits & Rewards: Philanthropy: RK Industries not only builds our community through our projects, but also invests in it by supporting local services for over a decade through the RK Foundation.
• RK Foundation Development: Through RK University, we provide hands-on training and development opportunities that empower employees to advance their careers and grow within the company, to include leadership and technical learning opportunities, we well as our accredited apprentice program.
• RK University & RK Apprenticeship Program