Project Manager​/Estimator

Position Summary

Duties of this position include but are not limited to ensuring high-quality work on all projects and communicating goals and directions effectively to team members, job superintendents, and division managers. Seek out bid opportunities and secure projects with overall knowledge of design scopes. Proactively identify problem areas on projects, overcome obstacles, and provide quality control. This position is also responsible for managing subcontractor performance, job budgets, change orders, cost codes, cost reporting, and purchase orders, and must have a full understanding of job design.

• Discuss and implement best practices that drive site safety
• Monitor overall site safety and enforce compliance with predetermined, communicated safety guidelines
• Provide and encourage safety-specific training
• Motivate and recognize positive safety habits and practices
• Ensure completion of all safety-related paperwork (e.g., JSAs) in an accurate and timely manner

• Detailed-oriented, able to prioritize, conscientious, and will work as needed to produce a quality product
• Aggressively focused on delivering high-quality projects
• Ensure that Bid Day summary sheets are completed the day before the bid; also, have plug numbers for all items as appropriate on the Bid Day summary sheet
• Close the bid on bid day
• Have a thorough knowledge of the plans and specifications
• Write RFI's during the bidding phase
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of means and methods of construction
• Can identify advantages as well as areas of high risk with each project bid
• Able to work in various project delivery systems; i.e. design-build, CM-GMP, lump sum, etc
• Aggressively focus on delivering the highest level of quality on all projects
• Communicate quality goals to all project team members, including superintendents
• Proactively identify potential "problem areas" early in the process and develop strategies to overcome obstacles
• Provide quality control/assurance support on self-performed work and subcontractors' work in conjunction with the quality control manager
• Resolve problems as they arise; notify the department head as needed
• Complete a post-job review on every project to identify and discuss "lessons learned" as well as "project victories”
• Maintain accurate project documentation
• Document and log all change orders and constantly discuss them with the owner until closed
• Create and log a photo history of the project

• Understand and price the cost of either one component of a large project or all components of a smaller project
• Solicit subcontract quotes as required and maintain documentation for a good faith effort by the specifications
• Obtain a minimum of three (3) subcontractor quotes for all scopes not being performed by your company
• Participate in subcontractor “recruitment / outreach” activities as necessary to ensure the company is getting strong bid participation on scopes you don’t self-perform
• Ensure that all quantities necessary for the individual project are surveyed
• Have the pricing checked by the appropriate party and have the totals ready for bid day
• Price supervision costs based on the projected duration of the job; have those costs reviewed by the appropriate parties to ensure buy-in before you submit the bid
• Negotiate with owners and find other ways than price cuts to win work
• Assist the operations team in the buy-out of all major subcontractors
• Understand the components of labor wages
• Develop pricing based on labor productivity and crew types
• Proactively and aggressively pursue and manage the change-order process
• Conduct formal, comprehensive pre-job planning meetings to review estimates, plans, and specs with estimators and superintendents
• Review all design revisions for changes in cost and schedule
• Support the project budget, schedule, and contract documents by effectively buying out material and subcontractors promptly

• Develop a preliminary schedule to determine the length of time necessary for pricing the job
• Understand, with help from the Operations resources in the company, the duration of the jobs so you can price self-perform labor and equipment costs accurately
• Understand the…