Senior Estimator Construction

Job Category
:
Estimating and Preconstruction

Requisition Number
: SENIO
001680

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• Posted :
  November 10, 2025
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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• Travel Required :
  Yes

Who we are: Build your career with Boldt. As a member of the Boldt team, you’ll collaborate with some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the construction industry. You’ll have the chance to learn new skills and seek greater responsibilities with a team that builds real value in the world around you. You’ll succeed in a workplace culture that recognizes, respects, and values differences.

Boldt’s focus on innovation, collaboration, and employee development provides an opportunity for all our employees to Build Boldly.

How your role fits into Boldt: The Senior Estimator will provide estimating services and expertise for multiple market sectors and contract delivery methods with the goal of creating estimates that foster success through a One Boldt approach while returning the planned profit to the company.

What you get to do:

• Perform estimating activities for a multitude of projects, large and small, both in negotiated and hard bid.
• Review drawings, specifications, and owner documents to establish scope of work contents for estimate and other respective deliverables. Attend pre-bid and project meetings. Prepare RFI's and collaborate with architecture and engineering firms to confirm document interpretation. Ensure proper evaluation and documentation of project scope is complete.
• Prepare detailed as well as conceptual estimates, which may include working with self-perform to scope project, create bid list of subcontractors, trade partners and suppliers and ensure appropriate coverage with those groups.
• Perform takeoffs required for estimates they have been assigned to. This may include Self-Performed Trades including Concrete, Masonry, Steel, Carpentry, Drywall and Millwright work. Uses OnCenter and Coordinates requirements for BIM generated quantification. The use of BIM generated takeoff using Vico is preferred.
• Prepare and review documents for the specific deliverable.
• Participate in the presentation of project estimates to project Owners and other partners. Lead internal and external meetings.
• Complete the bidding process including bid solicitation, bidders’ communications, proposals evaluations, and bid evaluation. Review and final acceptance of all bids.
• Senior Estimator will be responsible to establish acceptable design options and best solutions based on cost, engineering quality, or availability of materials.
• Develops and maintains client, design partners, subcontractors, suppliers, and external customer relationships.
• Provide technical support and guidance to estimating staff in preparing estimates for all projects. Leads specific project assignment and provides guidance to other estimators assigned to other projects in the preparation of all estimating and target value design functions for projects including establishing reporting formats, assignment of areas of estimating responsibility, compiling estimates, preparation, and oversight of project estimates.
• Provide the guidance and oversight for completeness of all estimate material and construction equipment required to perform work. Establishes and confirms union labor costs for the project.
• Manage Bid Solicitation process including management of bid documents and Instructions to Bidders. Guides the process to successfully procure and analyze bids. Supports buyout and smooth transition of turnover to project managers and ensures subcontractors are prequalified prior to bidding and contracting with Boldt.
• Senior Estimator will assist project managers and financial managers in the continuous assessment of project risks and opportunities and how they relate to the overall project cost. Consolidate all risk and opportunities and integrate to the overall project cost. This includes assisting project and financial managers in reviewing monthly trade partner cost reports and labor reports and identifying variances from the original estimate.
• Prepare Strategic Project Qualification (SPQ) to analyze project from a risk mitigation standpoint.
• Confirm insurance…