Senior Estimator

Marina Landscape, Inc. provides a family atmosphere where each of its team members are valued, and their ideas heard. Marina Landscape is 100% employee-owned, our employees share as the company grows and prospers. Join Marina Landscape, Inc. and become an owner!

This exempt supervisory job classification is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing strategic estimating functions that are aligned with business objectives, staff development needs, and company policies and procedures; performs other work as required.

• Responsible for the performance of the Estimating Department;
• Oversees all job estimates; ensures production rates are accurate, current, and profitable;
• Develops, implements, and tracks departmental plan, performance objectives, and follow-up initiatives to ensure
• Alignment with company business goals;
• Manages personal, staff, and departmental time efficiently by delegating tasks adequately, implementing due
• Dates and deadlines, tracking work flow, and performing detailed follow-up;
• Provides ideas to help improve the department and company across a range of topics (e.g., assessment,
• Analysis, strategic planning, coordination, and innovative solutions);
• Role models team work; leads the team effectively by generating spirit, accountability, and professionalism;
• Ensures all tasks are completed on time;
• Supervises, trains, and evaluates staff;
• Reviews bidding and cost estimating on various construction, hardscape, and landscaping projects;
• Coordinates the bid schedule;
• Oversees analysis of blueprints, specifications, details, and/or scope of work to determine material, labor,
• Equipment, and subcontractor requirements;
• Coordinates bid schedules with Business Development;
• Reviews bids, contracts, and subcontracts prior to passing on to Business Development;
• Evaluates final bid proposal;
• Bids an average of 3-5 jobs per week totaling between $500,000-$800,000 in revenue;
• Coaches staff to ensure they can compute itemized cost factors and prepare estimates used for management
• Purposes such as budgeting, purchasing, planning, and scheduling work;
• Reviews “take-off” reports;
• Assures product quality by using proven estimating methods;
• Trains to specified data entry standards; uses MEP (Marina Estimating Program);
• Proof reads finished projects for missing data, production codes, and bidding alternates;
• Monitors bid preparation, selection of sub-vendors and/or subcontractors, and tracks cost effectiveness;
• Distributes request for quotes and does appropriate follow-up;
• Ensures bid projects are created in company software;
• Offers recommendations to improve cost estimating procedures to reduce future discrepancies between
• Estimated and actual costs;
• Identifies cost trends to ensure accuracy and process improvement efforts;
• Provides informational and product support to all Company customers;
• And provides excellent service (e.g., accurate, complete, and timely) to clients, work-site partners, and company staff in a courteous and efficient manner.

• Principles, methods, and procedures associated with construction, landscape, and/or hardscape estimating,
• Systems, market conditions, and trade practices;
• Blueprints, scope of work, and specification drawings;
• Unit costs of requisite project materials; subcontractors and suppliers;
• Company software, windows operating system, and the microsoft office suite;
• Supervision;
• Business planning;
• Mep;
• Mathematical operations (e.g., production rates, conversions, and proportions);
• General laws and rules regulating and influencing construction, landscape, and/or hardscape; and company
• Customer service objectives, norms, and strategies.

• Develop a strategic plan to achieve departmental goals;
• Interpret informational sources (e.g., scope of work, blueprints, construction plans) and prepare project
• Estimates; analyze, organize, and prioritize information efficiently; communicate with others effectively;
• Work within microsoft windows, the microsoft office suite, and company software; time management, multi-
• Tasking, and attention to detail;
• Operate the mep;
• Perform complex mathematical operations;
• Supervise, train, evaluate, and discipline employees;
• Exercise appropriate…