Painting​/Wallcovering Estimator

Position Summary

JCW Management Inc. is hiring a Painting / Wallcovering Estimator to support Vancouver Paint Group and Hooton Wallcovering with plan review, finish schedule review, quantity takeoff, bid preparation, customer communication, sales support, light project management support, and project handoff support.

The Painting / Wallcovering Estimator is responsible for reviewing plans, finish schedules, specifications, addenda, and project requirements to prepare accurate painting and wallcovering estimates and proposals. This role helps identify scope, build takeoffs, review labor and material requirements, coordinate with project managers, communicate with customers, and support clean handoffs from bid to production. The right candidate understands commercial finishes, communicates clearly, and can track details across multiple bids.

Experience in painting, coatings, wallcovering, or field leadership is valuable, especially for someone looking to move into estimating and customer-facing sales support.

This is not a desk-only estimating role. For the type of customers and projects we work with, face time matters. The estimator is expected to help sell the job before and after the bid goes out by building trust, asking good questions, understanding customer priorities, and presenting the company as the right partner for the work. Represent Vancouver Paint Group and Hooton Wallcovering professionally with general contractors, owners, customers, project managers, and jobsite superintendents.

Attend site walks, pre-bid meetings, customer meetings, and finish/scope review conversations when needed. Ask good questions early to understand finish expectations, schedule pressure, budget concerns, phasing, access, product selections, and customer priorities. Help position the company before proposal submission by explaining our experience, responsiveness, safety standards, product knowledge, quality expectations, and ability to execute. Follow up on bids, answer customer questions, clarify scope, and help move opportunities toward award.

Communicate value clearly so the customer understands our finish standards, preparation assumptions, product requirements, inclusions, exclusions, and why our number is built correctly.

This role may also include light project manager support, especially during project handoff, early coordination, change pricing, and customer follow-up. The estimator does not replace the project manager, but should be willing and able to help carry the job from bid opportunity through award and into production when needed. Support project managers with job handoff, scope review, budget setup, finish requirements, schedule notes, and production assumptions after award.

Assist with change order pricing, customer clarification, material coordination, small project coordination, finish questions, and follow-up when needed. Help identify issues that could affect budget, manpower, schedule, quality, finish expectations, or customer satisfaction. Stay involved enough after award to make sure the estimate turns into a clean, buildable project plan.

• Review plans, specifications, finish schedules, elevations, addenda, and bid documents for painting and wallcovering scope.
• Prepare quantity takeoffs for interior painting, exterior painting, coatings, wallcovering, specialty finishes, and related scope as applicable.
• Identify substrates, finish types, prep requirements, primers, coatings, wallcovering materials, quantities, alternates, and exclusions.
• Review bid documents for clarifications, RFIs, scope gaps, schedule concerns, and addenda changes.
• Build clear estimating worksheets, pricing summaries, and bid notes for internal review.
• Coordinate with project managers, superintendents, vendors, suppliers, general contractors, and customers as needed.
• Solicit and review vendor pricing for paint, coatings, wallcovering, specialty materials, equipment, and related scope.
• Help prepare proposals, bid clarifications, alternates, and scope letters that are clear, professional, and sell the value of the company.
• Participate in site walks, bid review meetings, scope reviews, finish discussions, and customer-facing conversations.
• Follow up on submitted bids and help answer questions that can lead to award.
• Track bid deadlines and support timely completion of estimates.
• Support project handoff after award so production understands scope, budgets, finish requirements, exclusions, schedule expectations, and customer commitments.
• Assist with light project management duties, including change order pricing, budget updates, schedule support, material coordination, finish clarification, and scope revisions when needed.
• Maintain organized estimate files, plans, finish schedules, notes, supplier quotes, customer communication, and bid documentation.
• Perform duties in compliance with company policies, processes, and…