Construction Estimator

Construction Estimator (Quantity Surveyor)

Remote, Philippines (full-time)
· U.S. residential design-build, Washington, DC

₱80,000 base; ₱150,000+ when you prove it. The gap is yours to earn

We're rebuilding our estimating team: 3 hires, total. Get in early, and there's room to grow into the lead.

Fast-growing U.S. home builder (we design, build and sell houses) is rebuilding its estimating team and hiring 3 people total. Not 3 bodies to fill seats; but the few who'll build it right this time.

We're based in Washington, DC
, and we build some of the most remarkable homes in the city for powerful people. If building at that level excites you, you'll love it here.

Our estimates have leaked money—rework, blown budgets, surprises 're building an estimating function the whole company can trust. Each of you will own your number.

Owning your number means owning what happens to that number in the real world. The order shows up to a site that's actually ready, someone's there to receive it, it's on time, and it's right. The estimate is step one. The outcome is the job.

Does it bug you when a job lands 12% over because somebody guessed? Then keep reading.

I'll give you the bullets. When we talk, I'll go deeper:

• Can you read a set of plans and do a takeoff you'd bet your own money on?
• When something's about to go sideways, do you see it coming or follow instructions right off a cliff?
• When you're blocked and nobody answers, do you chase it down and elevate, or shrug and barrel ahead?
• Do you own the result or just your slice of it?
• Do you chase a miss all the way to its root cause, so it never comes back?
• Would you rather be measured than comfortable?

We're looking for people who want to own the most important number in the building.

Right now our estimating runs on tribal knowledge, half‑finished templates, and one senior person everyone leans on. You're one of the first, and the standard this company estimates on for the next ten years gets written by you and the two others who land these seats. You’ll:

• Turn the way you price into a standard the whole team can run.
• Build assemblies, checklists and templates that stop the same mistake from happening twice and get them adopted.
• Bake the fix for a recurring error into the system so nobody repeats it.
• Leave the function sharper than you found it, every quarter.

This is a ground‑floor seat. If that excites you, we should talk.

• First‑Pass Yield
  : clears review with zero rework. ~30% today; we want 85%.
• Budget vs. actual
  : your estimate against the real cost at closeout. ±5%.
• Speed
  : an honest ROM same or next day; the full budget on the date you committed.
• Adoption
  : the standards you build actually get used on real jobs.

• Base: ₱80,000/month. Locked. Yours. A real salary, not a draw, not commission in disguise.
• Target: ₱150,000+/month
  : base plus what you earn when your numbers prove out (~ ₱1.8 M a year).
• That’s ₱70,000+ on top of base every month, almost your base again. Small amounts released weekly and monthly; the real money settles quarterly when results are in.
• The “+” is real: beat the targets and the ceiling keeps moving. I’d rather hire three excellent estimators than a roomful of maybes.

Reliability isn’t the bonus; it’s the price of entry. Showing up and keeping your word gets you in the door; the money is what you build on top.

• No guessers, and no “close enough.”
• No box‑checkers. If you stop thinking the moment the boxes are ticked, keep moving.
• No “I‑sent‑the‑email” people. The materials must land on a ready site, be received, secured, on time.
• No barreling ahead. If you're…