Senior Estimator

Industrial Air; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (medical, dental, and/

401K with company match

We Care ERG culture via EMBRACE

Career pathing and mobility

Job summary

Limbach Facility Services LLC is seeking a Senior Estimator to support branch sales by attending pre-bid and pre-award meetings, preparing competitive cost estimates, reviewing documents, and developing bids and estimate strategies. You will assist project management with estimate and unit labor breakdowns while leveraging market pricing and trend insights.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, 3+ years of industry experience, and proficiency with MS Office/Excel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• 3+ years of industry-specific experience.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel in particular).
• Advanced organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Capacity to leverage communication/interpersonal skills to develop and enhance business relationships.
• Aptitude for producing meaningful results in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Must have a driving record compliant with the Company's policies and MVR requirements, and consent to ongoing driving record monitoring by the Company.
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Reviews documents to define scope, phases, and alternates, identify potential risks and value engineering opportunities, and resolve incomplete documents, as required by the estimate strategy.
• Employs takeoff and estimating skills in plumbing, heating, process piping, electrical, and/or sheet metal trades to quantify projects.
• Applies parametric data to check pricing and confirm budgets.
• Performs standard adjustments to template labor in MEP trades (including back-up).
• Prepares estimates for various markets in which the Company does business.
• Identifies potential buy-out and amounts of significant equipment packages and subcontracts.
• Provides timely re-estimates of redesigned or value engineered projects.
• Maintains appropriate industry contacts to stay current with market pricing and trends.
• Synthesizes relevant information to create purchasing breakdowns, unit labor breakdowns, and purchase order control sheets for use by key stakeholders.
• Facilitates a seamless hand-off of successful bids to designated project managers.
• Obtains and evaluates productivity feedback from project management, foreman, and customers.
• Identifies and reports leads on new projects and potential new business.
• Executes a variety of support tasks, as directed, in furtherance of the overall sales and estimating strategy.

Skills

Takeoff and estimating

MS Excel

Analytical thinking

Communication/interpersonal

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel)

Job description

Since our founding in 1901, Limbach’s primary core value has always been simple: We Care. That commitment extends to our people, our customers, and the communities we serve—driving a culture of belonging across our industry.

Limbach Company LLC, a subsidiary of Limbach Holdings, Inc., (NASDAQ: LMB), is a leading building systems solutions firm delivering mission-critical systems that support life’s most important moments. We specialize in revitalizing and maintaining HVAC, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and control systems within existing facilities—ensuring buildings are always ready to perform when it matters most.

From healthcare and education to government and commercial facilities, we partner with building owners and operators to safeguard reliability, efficiency, and comfort where it’s needed most.

Our vision is to create value for building owners targeting opportunities for long term relationships.

Our purpose is to create great opportunities for people.

We carry out our vision and purpose through a commitment to our four core values…

• We Care
• We Act with Integrity
• We Are Accountable

The Benefits & Perks…

• Base salary range of $120K - $130K
• Full portfolio of medical, dental, and vision benefits, along with 401K plan and company match.
• Engage in our “We Care” culture through our ERGs, brought to you by EMBRACE .
• Career pathing flexibility and mobility.

Who You Are…

As Senior Estimator, you are responsible for supporting the branch sales effort by attending pre-bid and pre-award meetings, preparing competitive cost estimates, reviewing documents, tracking opportunities, developing bids and estimate strategies, following up on field feedback and parametric costs, and assisting project management in estimate and unit labor breakdown.

This Position…

Some examples of the work you might do includes:

• Reviews documents to define scope, phases, and alternates, identify potential risks and value engineering opportunities, and resolve incomplete documents, as required by the estimate strategy.
• Employs takeoff and estimating skills in plumbing, heating, process piping, electrical, and/or sheet metal trades to quantify projects.
• Applies parametric data to check pricing and confirm budgets.
• Performs standard adjustments to template labor in MEP trades (including back-up).
• Prepares estimates for various markets in which the Company does business.
• Identifies potential buy-out and amounts of significant equipment packages and subcontracts.
• Provides timely re-estimates of redesigned or value engineered projects.
• Maintains appropriate industry contacts to stay current with market pricing and trends.
• Synthesizes relevant information to create purchasing breakdowns, unit labor breakdowns, and purchase order control sheets for use by key stakeholders.
• Facilitates a seamless hand-off of successful bids to designated project managers.
• Obtains and evaluates productivity feedback from project management, foreman, and customers.
• Identifies and reports leads on new projects and potential new business.
• Executes a variety of support tasks, as directed, in furtherance of the overall sales and estimating strategy.

What You Need…

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• 3+ years of industry-specific experience.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel in particular).
• Advanced organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Capacity to leverage communication/interpersonal skills to develop and enhance business relationships.
• Aptitude for producing meaningful results in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Must have a valid driver's license.
• Must have a driving record compliant with the Company's policies and MVR requirements, and consent to ongoing driving record monitoring by the Company.
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time.

Conduct Standards:

• Maintains appropriate Company confidentiality at all times.
• Protects the assets of the Company and ethically upholds the Code of Conduct & Ethics in all situations.
• Cultivates and promotes the “Hearts & Minds” safety culture.
• Consistently exemplifies the Core Values of the Company (we CARE, we act with INTEGRITY, we are INNOVATIVE, and we are ACCOUNTABLE).
• This position operates primarily in a professional office environment, and routinely utilizes standard office equipment, such as computers, phones, copiers, and filing cabinets.
• Work tasks may occasionally necessitate travel to local job sites, which means intermittent exposure to the conditions typically associated with a construction site.

Physical Demands:

• In performing the duties of this job, the incumbent is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, perform repetitive motion, and possess an appropriate degree of both visual acuity and manual dexterity.
• This is considered a sedentary work position, which means possible exertion up to ten (10) pounds of force occasionally, and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature of work being performed by the individual who assumes this role, not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice, as business needs dictate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. Limbach Facility Services LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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