Remote Chief Estimator – Construction & Environmental

Weston Solutions; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 141,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Weston Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Chief Estimator, Construction and Environmental Services to lead and mature the estimating and preconstruction discipline across commercial, federal, civil, infrastructure, environmental remediation, and design-build pursuits.

Remote location with strategic oversight of ROM through final proposals and risk-informed estimates. The role requires extensive experience in fixed-price and design-build environments, strong leadership, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• 15+ years of estimating experience in construction, environmental remediation, infrastructure, civil, commercial, or federal project environments.
• Experience leading estimates for fixed-price, design-build, commercial, environmental, civil, or infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of construction means and methods, subcontractor pricing, quantity takeoff, labor productivity, escalation, general conditions, indirect costs, and contingency development.
• Experience developing ROM, conceptual, parametric, budgetary, and detailed estimates.

Responsibilities

• Lead Weston’s estimating and preconstruction discipline across commercial, federal, civil, infrastructure, environmental, and design-build pursuits.
• Own estimate strategy for major, complex, and high-risk opportunities, aligning scope, cost, schedule, procurement, risk, and execution approach.
• Establish scalable estimating standards, tools, templates, review gates, and governance based on project value, complexity, and risk profile.
• Lead development and review of ROM, conceptual, parametric, budgetary, detailed, and final proposal estimates.
• Validate assumptions, quantities, production rates, labor, equipment, materials, escalation, indirect costs, contingencies, and risk allowances.
• Review subcontractor pricing for completeness, reasonableness, exclusions, qualifications, coverage, and commercial risk.
• Partner with procurement to develop sourcing strategies, bid packages, quote-leveling tools, subcontractor coverage plans, and buyout assumptions.
• Identify scope gaps, overlaps, alternates, allowances, constructability issues, sequencing constraints, logistics risks, and execution exposures before submission.
• Develop/train estimators in scope ownership, technical estimating, benchmarking, subcontractor evaluation, basis-of-estimate documentation, and executive-ready estimate presentation.
• Improve bid-to-execution transition by converting estimate assumptions, risks, procurement plans, and scope decisions into actionable guidance for operations and project delivery teams.
• Support strategy development and market research by gathering competitive intelligence, analyzing market pricing trends, identifying subcontractor and vendor capacity, bid optimization and informing pursuit positioning, go/no-go decisions, pricing strategy, and long-term estimating priorities.

Skills

Estimating experience

Cost estimation

Project risk analysis

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

PMP

PE

CCM

DBIA

Tools

Estimating templates

Cost databases

Bid tabs

Job description

Weston Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Chief Estimator, Construction and Environmental Services to lead and mature the estimating and preconstruction discipline across commercial, federal, civil, infrastructure, environmental remediation, and design-build pursuits.

Remote location with strategic oversight of ROM through final proposals and risk-informed estimates. The role requires extensive experience in fixed-price and design-build environments, strong leadership, and collaboration with