Junior Estimator

Job Title: Junior Estimator
Department: Pre-Construction
Reports To: Director of Preconstruction or Designated Interim Preconstruction Leader
FLSA Status
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Exempt

Travel Required: up to 25%

Company

Summary:

Blue Team is a national provider of commercial restoration, reconstruction, capital-improvement, and roofing services. Operating through an integrated family of companies under a unified brand, Blue Team serves commercial property owners and operators across senior living, healthcare, hospitality, multifamily, institutional, municipal, office, and retail markets.

Blue Team’s Preconstruction Department is an enterprise function supporting opportunities across Restoration, Reconstruction, Capital Expenditures, and Roofing. The department brings discipline and consistency to estimating, scope development, constructability, risk identification, trade-partner engagement, procurement planning, scheduling, and operational turnover before project commitment .

The Junior Estimator is the entry point into Blue Team's Estimating and Preconstruction career track. Working under the guidance of an Estimator, Senior Estimator, or Preconstruction Manager, you'll support quantity takeoffs, scope development, cost research, trade-partner solicitation, quote leveling, proposal documentation, and constructability reviews — building real ownership of work packages as you grow. Initial assignments focus on commercial renovation and Cap Ex work, with exposure to Reconstruction, Roofing, Restoration, and claims-based estimating as you develop.

This role is a great fit for early-career candidates or professionals transitioning from field supervision, project coordination, procurement, roofing, a construction trade, or design. We hire for aptitude, judgment, and growth potential — not pedigree or years of experience.

• Review and organize available project information, including drawings, specifications, scope narratives, photographs, reports, sketches, field notes, virtual walkthroughs, and reality-capture data.
• Perform supported quantity takeoffs for assigned trades, systems, areas, or work packages.
• Develop an understanding of construction assemblies, trade boundaries, sequencing, and material, labor, and equipment relationships.
• Break project requirements into logical scope components and help identify the information needed to complete each component.
• Identify inconsistencies, omissions, ambiguities, or conflicts and elevate them to the appropriate estimator or project leader.
• Clearly distinguish known scope from assumptions, allowances, alternates, contingencies, exclusions, and unresolved conditions.
• Maintain traceability between source documents, measured quantities, assumptions, and resulting estimate items.

• Support estimate development using one or more approved methodologies, including trade-partner and supplier pricing, internal historical costs, published cost data, claims-estimating platforms, and specialty roofing or envelope tools.
• Enter and validate quantities, unit costs, labor, material, equipment, productivity, escalation, location, tax, freight, logistics, and other applicable cost components under appropriate supervision.
• Assist with building estimates that reflect realistic construction means and methods rather than software output alone.
• Cross-check calculations, units of measure, scope coverage, and cost extensions for completeness and consistency.
• Help reconcile differences between historical cost, published cost data, platform pricing, and current market quotes.
• Learn how overhead, profit, risk, contingency, and client-specific pricing requirements affect the completed proposal.
• Produce estimate backup that is organized, reproducible, and understandable to someone who did not prepare the original work.

• Assist with developing bidder lists and identifying appropriate trade partners, vendors, manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers.
• Prepare and distribute invitation-to-bid packages, scope sheets, drawings, specifications, addenda, and…