Estimating Intern: Build Real-World Takeoffs & Costs

REDGUARD; Wichita (KS); Vor Ort; USD 21.000 - 34.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

RedGuard offers a 2027 Summer Internship Program in Wichita, KS, focusing on estimating modular buildings. The Estimator Intern supports active estimates, performs material takeoffs, and contributes to cost development and documentation under experienced guidance.

The role exposes you to ProEst and other estimating tools, with cross-functional collaboration across sales, engineering, and management, and a capstone project on standardizing takeoffs.

Qualifikationen

• Current student or recent graduate in construction management, engineering, architecture, building science, industrial technology, business or data analytics, or equivalent.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to learn unfamiliar systems.
• Basic ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft 365 applications.
• Strong attention to detail, quantitative reasoning, organization, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently within defined assignments while seeking guidance when assumptions, scope, or risk are unclear.
• Ability to collaborate professionally with employees, vendors, and other stakeholders and to manage changing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.

Aufgaben

• Review requests for quotation, drawings, specifications, customer scopes of work, floor plans, project planning information, and related bid documents to help identify project requirements and scope gaps.
• Perform detailed material takeoffs and assist with the development of material, labor, freight, subcontractor, design-service, and other estimate inputs under the guidance of experienced team members.
• Enter and organize estimate information in ProEst, including quantities, cost inputs, assumptions, inclusions, exclusions, and supporting documentation.
• Assist with vendor and subcontractor requests for quotation; track responses and capture pricing, lead times, scope clarifications, qualifications, and exclusions.
• Help verify alignment among the estimate, proposal, drawings, customer requirements, and supporting bid documents before internal reviews and customer submission.
• Participate in bid reviews, estimate revisions, process discussions, and cross-functional meetings to understand how commercial, technical, and production decisions affect project cost and risk.
• Maintain orderly estimate files, cost references, takeoff records, and assigned tracking tools so work can be reviewed, repeated, and transferred to other team members.

Kenntnisse

Attention to detail

Quantitative reasoning

Written communication

Verbal communication

Learn unfamiliar systems

Ausbildung

Related field degree

Tools

Bluebeam Revu

PlanSwift

Autodesk Takeoff

ProEst

CAD software

Jobbeschreibung

RedGuard offers a 2027 Summer Internship Program in Wichita, KS, focusing on estimating modular buildings. The Estimator Intern supports active estimates, performs material takeoffs, and contributes to cost development and documentation under experienced guidance.

The role exposes you to ProEst and other estimating tools, with cross-functional collaboration across sales, engineering, and management, and a capstone project on standardizing takeoffs.