Lead Concrete Estimator — Water & Wastewater Plants

Prospect Construction, Inc.; Tumwater (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance (HSA)

Bonus Plan

401(k) and Profit Sharing

Sick Leave (1 week)

Paid Holidays (7)

Training and Development

Job summary

Prospect Construction, Inc. is seeking a Concrete Estimator to join our Tumwater, WA office in person. You will develop detailed self-perform concrete estimates for water and wastewater facilities, basins, tanks, pump stations, and heavy civil projects across our footprint.

Lead bids, manage bid schedules, and mentor junior estimators. The role requires strong takeoff skills, experience with formwork, reinforcing, placement, and finishing, and proficiency in Sage, PlanSwift, and Bluebeam.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of concrete estimating experience with a heavy civil, industrial, or general contractor that self-performs structural concrete.
• Proven record estimating cast-in-place structural concrete from the crew up, including formwork, reinforcing, placement, and finishing.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed quantity takeoffs of cast-in-place concrete structures—mat foundations, walls, elevated slabs, columns, beams, channels, and equipment pads for treatment plants, basins, tanks, pump stations, and vaults.
• Build self-perform concrete estimates from the crew up: formwork contact area, form systems, cycles and reuse; reinforcing; embeds and waterstop; placement and pumping.
• Develop crew sizes, labor productions, and pour sequences; price equipment, form rental or purchase, ready-mix supply, and pumping.
• Carry the cost of liquid-containing structure requirements, including waterstop, joint sealants, leakage testing, crack repair, and coating surface preparation.
• Review Division 03 specifications for mix design, testing, special inspection, hot and cold weather, finish, and tolerance requirements; capture cost impacts and clear assumptions.
• Solicit and level subcontractor and supplier pricing for rebar fabrication and placement, ready-mix, pumping, post-tensioning, precast, shotcrete, and testing; confirm scope alignment.
• Identify risks and opportunities, including access and crane reach, pour breaks, dewatering interfaces, winter concrete, schedule constraints, and design ambiguities; prepare RFIs during bid.
• Maintain a concrete cost and productivity database; track estimate performance against job cost results and field feedback.
• Participate in bid reviews and turnover meetings; support the bid-to-execution transition, budgeting, and buyout.
• Lead complete bids as lead estimator: bid schedule, scope assignments, bid forms, addenda, and proposal compliance.
• Estimate additional self-perform scopes such as earthwork, yard piping, process mechanical, and site utilities.
• Develop general conditions, markups, and bid-day strategy with leadership.
• Mentor junior estimators and share concrete estimating best practices across offices.

Skills

Concrete estimating

Cast-in-place

Form systems

Reading drawings

Estimating software

Lead estimator

Sage

PlanSwift

Bluebeam

Deadlines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Sage

PlanSwift

Bluebeam

Job description

Prospect Construction, Inc. is seeking a Concrete Estimator to join our Tumwater, WA office in person. You will develop detailed self-perform concrete estimates for water and wastewater facilities, basins, tanks, pump stations, and heavy civil projects across our footprint.

Lead bids, manage bid schedules, and mentor junior estimators. The role requires strong takeoff skills, experience with formwork, reinforcing, placement, and finishing, and proficiency in Sage, PlanSwift, and Bluebeam.