Construction Estimator

Bighorn Law; Tinley Park (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bighorn Law is seeking an Estimator to convert project plans into defensible budgets based on thorough takeoffs. The role involves reading renovation drawings to anticipate hidden conditions and asking the right questions before pricing is released.

You will collaborate with the Director of Operations and ownership to develop and refine estimating processes and work with architect partners on scope and specs before the project reaches the client.

Qualifications

• Experience performing full takeoffs to establish defensible budgets.
• Ability to read historic renovation drawings and assess likely conditions behind plaster/behind framing.
• Experience asking the right questions before pricing goes out.

Responsibilities

• Produce full takeoffs and build budgets that account for hidden conditions.
• Collaborate with Director of Operations and ownership to refine estimating processes.
• Coordinate with architect partners on scope and specs before presenting to client.

Skills

Takeoffs

Budgeting

Reading drawings

Ask before pricing

Job description

The Role

As an Estimator, you'll take a project from a plan set to a real, defensible budget — one our sales team can present with confidence, and our project managers can actually build to. This means full takeoffs, not approximations. It means reading a set of historic renovation drawings and knowing, from experience, what's likely underneath the plaster or behind the existing framing that the architect couldn't fully document. It means asking the right questions before pricing goes out, not after.

You'll work closely with the Director of Operations and ownership to build out and refine our estimating process, and with our architect partners on scope and specs before a project reaches the client.

We need an estimator who's done enough takeoffs to know where those gaps usually hide, and who builds a budget that accounts for them before we're on site finding out the hard way.