Estimator

Job Description
Bread Loaf Corporation, Vermont’s integrated company of architects, planners, and builders, is seeking a Senior Estimator. Our Estimators provide timely, accurate estimates and quality purchases for clients and team members while developing client confidence, productive team relationships, and meeting or exceeding corporate gross profit goals.
Job Responsibilities include:
Schedule, review all estimates, bid results, and schedule of values with Vice President of Estimating and Purchasing prior to owner receiving them.
Estimate work:
quantity survey, materials prices, labor productivity, labor rates, and estimated sub pricing.
Develop and create template documents i.E. bidding requirements and Division 1 documents
Data base updates into MC2 ICE
Develop and improve estimating i.E. building assemblies
Meet or exceed corporate gross profit objectives set by management for IPM (Integrated Project Management) -NEG, CM (Construction Management) -LS, IPM-BID, CM-Cost+, Hard bid work.
Develop and maintain relationships with architects, consultants, subcontractors, and vendors in order to increase referrals by the following:
Reduce the number of bid packages
- Assist project teams in preparation of the following:
Total project budget
Estimate of probable cost
Site selection comparative budgets and constructability
Feasibility study budgets
Square foot costing
Detail estimates
- Provide ongoing constructability review.
- Provide cost control revisions, value engineering, and scope reduction as maybe required in order to meet owners’ project budget.
- Develop appropriate bid lists based on project needs and current market conditions.
- Purchasing:
bid packages, scopes of work, analyze bids, negotiate with sub/vendors, award, write purchase orders and/or subcontracts with attached general and specific scopes of work.
- Provide timely purchases in order to meet or exceed contractual completion date.
- Review budget problems (if any) with Vice President of Estimating and Purchasing prior to commitment with subs /vendors.
- Visit jobsite on a monthly basis, review schedule and needs from Project Superintendent. Review subs/vendor contracts and scopes of work with project superintendent.
- Assist in developing final cost report ready for import into Viewpoint.
- Goal to obtain 20% (or better) hit rate on hard bid projects.