Position Purpose
The Estimating Manager leads the day-to-day operations and development of the mechanical contracting estimating team while partnering with our Business Development and Engineering team. This position is responsible for putting the enterprise estimating standards, methodologies, and decision frameworks into practice. Responsibilities include employee development, workload coordination, estimate quality, process consistency, clear scope and assumption definition, and timely bid execution. The Estimating Manager remains actively involved in complex and strategic estimates while providing formal supervision, coaching, and accountability for assigned team members.
Position Responsibilities
- Supervise, coach, and develop assigned estimating team members through regular feedback, one-on-one meetings, development planning, and performance reviews.
- Coordinate estimating assignments with Business Development and Engineering teams based on workload, employee capability, project complexity, risk, and bid schedule.
- Establish internal milestones and ensure estimates, reviews, proposals, and project turnovers are completed accurately and on time.
- Review estimates for scope completeness, labor assumptions, material and equipment pricing, subcontractor coverage, indirect costs, clarifications, exclusions, and project risk.
- Lead or support complex, negotiated, design-build, plan-and-spec, high-risk, and strategic mechanical estimates.
- Facilitate estimate reviews and ensure significant technical, commercial, labor, procurement, schedule, and constructability risks are identified and elevated.
- Support the preparation of proposals, scope narratives, alternates, value-engineering options, clarifications, and exclusions.
- Ensure awarded projects receive a complete and organized turnover that communicates scope, assumptions, commitments, risks, and open items.
- Partner with Business Development, Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Project Management, and Operations to improve estimate inputs, decision-making, and project handoffs.
- Implement and reinforce estimating standards, tools, templates, software practices, file structures, and review procedures.
- Support the development and effective use of QuoteSoft, Bluebeam, Microsoft Excel, and other estimating and preconstruction systems.
- Monitor team capacity, estimate quality, on-time completion, employee development, and recurring process issues.
- Provide the Sr. Director of Estimating with regular updates regarding staffing, workload, employee performance, estimate quality, and pursuit risk.
- Promote safety, accountability, Lean thinking, collaboration, and continuous improvement throughout the estimating process.
Summary of Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Associate or bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, mechanical design, construction technology, or a related field, or equivalent mechanical construction experience.
- 8 or more years of progressive mechanical estimating, project management, engineering, fabrication, or field leadership experience.
- Demonstrated success leading complex mechanical construction estimates.
- Strong knowledge of mechanical systems, labor productivity, material and equipment pricing, subcontractor coverage, indirect costs, escalation, contingency, and project risk.
- Ability to read and interpret drawings, specifications, contracts, addenda, schedules, and bid requirements.
- Previous supervisory, team leadership, coaching, or mentoring experience.
- Proficiency with mechanical estimating software, digital takeoff tools, Microsoft Excel, and related business systems.
- Strong leadership, analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
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