Chief Estimator Mechanical​/Structural

Company:
Loenbro, LLC
Business Unit/Department:
Loenbro Industrial Construction

Location:

Texas

Reports to:

Preconstruction Manager

Employment Type:

Full Time
FLSA Classification:
Exempt

Loenbro is a trusted, long-term construction lifecycle partner to thousands of customers across the U.S. Our market spans all industries, and our service offerings include Critical Electrical, Mechanical & Structural, Soft Crafts, Inspection, Underground Maintenance and Installation, and Fabrication. Our expertise lies in simplifying the complex and establishing long-standing relationships with our partners. We have a national presence but a local approach—every customer benefits from our capabilities and our care.

Job Summary
The Chief Estimator is the estimating department leader responsible for strategy, quality, people, resource allocation, and business results. This role sets estimating standards and methodology; leads complex, high-value and multi-discipline pursuits; and ensures accurate, competitive, timely, and defensible proposals. The Chief Estimator develops estimating talent, directs workflow and pursuit assignments, strengthens cost data and systems, and partners with key stakeholders to align scope, pricing, market conditions, risk, and execution strategy for successful project delivery.

• Provide strategic leadership to the estimating team by aligning priorities, staffing, pursuit assignments, and resources with regional and company objectives.
• Build, retain, train, mentor, and develop a high-performing estimating team; establish clear expectations, accountability, succession plans, and professional development priorities.
• Assess estimating staffing needs, support recruiting and hiring efforts, and maintain appropriate team capacity as business needs grow.
• Lead the estimating process, estimate-request workflow, deadlines, deliverables, documentation control, and quality control across project sizes, disciplines, and delivery methods.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve department standards, procedures, work package structures, estimating methods, cost structures, and review requirements.
• Direct the development of estimates across varying project stages, delivery methods, and levels of scope definition, ensuring each estimate is appropriately structured for the pursuit.
• Lead or oversee complex, high-value, and integrated multi-discipline pursuits; validate scope alignment, quantity takeoffs, constructability, sequencing, pricing, and cross-scope gaps.
• Review and approve final estimate and proposal packages for completeness, accuracy, compliance, pricing integrity, execution alignment, and defensible treatment of assumptions, exclusions, risks, and opportunities.
• Lead risk assessment, contingency development, constructability review, cost optimization, and value engineering; evaluate alternatives and provide guidance on recommended solutions.
• Oversee subcontractor and vendor strategy, bid solicitation, quote coverage, bid leveling, scope comparison, commercial evaluation, and market-pricing awareness.
• Partner with Operations to develop direct job expense, labor productivity, execution assumptions, procurement strategy, and estimate turnover requirements that support successful project delivery.
• Coordinate with owners, architects, engineers, contractors, Business Development, Procurement, and Operations to align scope, engineering input, cost data, negotiations, and pursuit strategy.
• Own department reporting, analytics, and performance metrics, including hit ratio, client feedback, bid volume, estimating capacity, estimate accuracy, and process compliance; use results to drive improvement.
• Champion historical-cost analysis, benchmarking, trend logs, productivity data, market…