Senior Estimator | TWC

Senior Estimator

TW Constructors (TWC)

Full Time

St. Louis, Mo.

TW Constructors has provided the best in design/build construction, interior renovation, and construction management to companies in the St. Louis market and Nationwide for over 20 years. As a result, we are ranked the 2nd largest Minority Owned Business Enterprise in the St. Louis metropolitan area. TW Constructors takes pride in providing clients with superior service through the entire construction process.

From project concept, through inception and development and into the project completion and occupancy, TW Constructors manages and supports all aspects of the project including budgeting, estimating, scheduling, planning, and construction. We will be there to support our clients as long as they need our support. TW Constructors is building more than state-of-the-art facilities, we are building and supporting our clients and their communities.

The Senior Estimator is responsible for leading the preparation of estimates and proposals from initial review through final submission for field and prefabrication construction projects across multiple disciplines. This position will develop and present conceptual estimates, lump-sum bids, proposals, unit costs, and quantity takeoffs for a diverse portfolio of project types and clients.

The Senior Estimator will provide leadership throughout the estimating process, including bid strategy, scope development, subcontractor and vendor evaluation, risk analysis, value engineering, and estimate review. This position will collaborate with clients, procurement, operations, subcontractors, vendors, and internal project teams to ensure estimates are accurate, comprehensive, competitive, and aligned with project goals.

• Lead the development of conceptual, schematic, design-development, and construction-document estimates.
• Manage estimates and proposals from initial opportunity review through final bid submission and turnover to operations.
• Develop and present lump-sum bids, proposals, unit costs, quantity takeoffs, and pricing analyses.
• Establish bid strategies, estimating approaches, work plans, and submission requirements for assigned opportunities.
• Collaborate with clients, vendors, subcontractors, and internal teams to develop accurate project estimates and resolve scope or pricing issues.
• Interface with procurement, preconstruction, and operations teams to align estimates with project goals, schedules, and available resources.
• Review project scope, drawings, specifications, addenda, schedules, and commercial terms for completeness, clarity, and consistency.
• Identify scope gaps, constructability concerns, trade overlaps, long-lead items, and cost or schedule risks.
• Develop comprehensive scopes of work, bid packages, inclusions, exclusions, assumptions, allowances, and proposal clarifications.
• Prepare detailed material, equipment, labor, subcontractor, indirect-cost, and general-conditions pricing.
• Solicit, review, level, and evaluate subcontractor and vendor proposals for scope coverage, pricing accuracy, qualifications, and RFP compliance.
• Lead scope-review meetings and support subcontractor and vendor selection recommendations.
• Conduct market, material, and labor studies to support pricing and procurement decisions.
• Develop summary schedules and evaluate project duration, staffing, indirect costs, fees, contingencies, escalation, and other cost factors.
• Identify and quantify project risks through detailed review of plans, specifications, schedules, and commercial requirements.
• Develop risk-mitigation strategies and communicate significant findings to leadership and project stakeholders.
• Lead value engineering, alternate pricing, cost-option analysis, and…