What are the responsibilities and job description for the Estimator position at Emcor?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Attend pre-bid or team scope review meetings and understand the complete scope of work required, with sometimes-limited information.
- Review and understand all of the project bid documents.
- Locate, notify and send bid information to subcontractors and vendors for quotations on outsourced work.
- Complete the estimate takeoff, using on-screen computer estimating, within time deadlines.
- Work as a team with other estimators, company divisions and departments.
- Compile and finalize the estimate within time deadline and participate in team reviews with management on bid day.
- Evaluate bids of subcontractors and vendors for completeness of scope of work, schedule, compliance with specifications, or other bid requirements.
- Prepare value engineering analysis in anticipation of the customer’s best interest.
- Develop the scope of work narrative.
- Assist field operations with the estimate after bid award.
- Meet proposal due date schedules.
- Anticipates requirements of producing estimates with little information given.
- Able to see the overall requirements of customer satisfaction without losing sight of the details.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- 3 years Electrical estimating background in HVAC and plumbing estimating.
- Experience in estimating K-12 and public sector projects is a plus.
- Thorough knowledge of estimating both Design-Build and plan spec projects.
- Computer literate and comfortable with spreadsheets and computerized on-screen takeoff programs.
- Produce accurate, timely and competitive estimates with minimal data.
- Anticipate requirements and cost components of Design Build project.
- Excellent communication skills with customers, vendors, subcontractors, general contractors and owners.