Manufacturing - Construction Estimating Manager

Job Type

Full-time

Description

BLOX is revolutionizing the construction industry by integrating advanced manufacturing principles with innovative technology to deliver high-quality, modular building solutions. We are driven by a mission to rethink how buildings are designed, fabricated, and delivered, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and sustainability.

Description

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Construction Estimating Manager to lead our estimating function for modular construction projects. This role is responsible for overseeing cost estimating, overseeing bid processes, and ensuring accurate, competitive, and timely project estimates.

Requirements

Job Responsibilities

• Drive competitive results for estimating endeavors.
• Lead and manage estimating team, providing direction, coaching, and performance oversight.
• Assign estimating requirements to support staff for each project, based on schedule and needs.
• Coordinate technical proposal requirements with business development/marketing departments.
• Coordinate technical proposal requirements with business development/marketing departments.
• Develop initial project schedules and work plans
• Develop program and project risk analysis and clearly communicate risks to BLOX Leadership
• Build positive relationships and alliances with vendor and subcontractor community.
• Develop detailed basis of estimates for the qualifications and assumptions of the estimate
• Work with BLOX Self-perform Perform detailed quantity-takeoff, labor estimates, and work plans for self-perform scopes of work (carpentry and concrete).
• Maintain & update on databases used for conceptual and detailed estimates, including Bill of Materials
• Provide value analysis of plans & specifications including coordination, completeness, & clarity.
• Communication and coordination with BLOX Design, Manufacturing, and Construction teams.
• Assist program teams in change management estimating
• Responsible for documenting and communicating lessons learned into continuous improvement processes.
• Regularly monitor success, efficiency and accuracy of the department's budgets, bids and GMP's. Review and implement strategies to sustain efficiency and accuracy of department work.
• Evaluate risk on projects when department is preparing bids or GMPs and ensure pricing is developed in a way to ensure costs are covered and the project can be profitable.
• Develop, review, and implement pricing strategies with the input of business development, operations and the department that support the company's overall goals.
• Coordinate preparations of bids and GMPs with operations and ensure that proper operational input is provided with general conditions, logistics and planning of the projects.
• Work with MEP & BIM Services to assist with the development of procedures and standards and implementation for these service teams.
• Prepare conceptual, schematic, design development and GMP estimates to support preconstruction activities and clients.
• Maintain and adjust to Owner's budget as required to maintain project budget.
• Monitor design scope for changes affecting budget and/or schedule; identify cause, advise client for client decision.
• Keep client fully informed of preconstruction progress on the project and of any significant technical problems/solutions and their effect on design and/or costs.
• Identify and promote solutions to any problem, which might impede progress of the project or adversely affect client and architect relations.
• Lead value engineering and value enhancement efforts to serve our clients including development of items and lists, compilation of ideas and presentation of information to the client.
• Prepare and or oversee the preparation of all materials presented to the owner, architect or engineer on a project.
• Lead and perform constructability reviews of all projects where designated the preconstruction manager.
• Ensure that the turnover of a project from preconstruction and estimating to operations is done properly with appropriate hand-off meetings and all information is transferred to the operations team.
• Initiate billing process, review and approve all invoices prior to submittal to client. Participate in presentation with…