Senior Estimator – Design-Build & Data Center Projects

Abstrakt Marketing Group; Saxonburg (PA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Performance-based incentive/bonus

Medical benefits

401(k)

Professional growth opportunities

Experience on complex mission-critical

Job summary

Etzel Engineer and Build, Inc. is seeking an experienced Construction Estimator to develop accurate estimates across the full preconstruction process for design-build projects, including conceptual budgeting, design development, and hard bid phases.

You will work with project teams, subcontractors, vendors, and clients to produce competitive budgets, identify risks, and keep costs aligned as designs evolve. Strong emphasis on mission-critical, data center, and high-reliability environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial construction estimating experience.
• Experience estimating design-build construction projects through multiple stages of design.
• Mission-critical, data center, high-reliability, healthcare, or technically complex construction experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of MEP systems and MEP estimating, particularly for data center or mission-critical environments.
• Experience preparing conceptual budgets, detailed estimates, quantity takeoffs, and hard bids.
• Ability to solicit, analyze, and level subcontractor and vendor proposals.

Responsibilities

• Prepare complete and accurate conceptual, schematic, design-development, and hard-bid estimates across all CSI divisions for design-build projects.
• Perform detailed quantity takeoffs from drawings, specifications, and models for civil, structural, architectural, and MEP scopes.
• Develop and maintain cost models, ROM budgets, and capacity reconciliations as projects progress through each phase of design.
• Solicit, level, and analyze subcontractor and vendor bids to ensure complete scope coverage and competitive pricing.
• Prepare bid packages, scope sheets, and trade-specific scopes of work for subcontractors and suppliers.
• Lead the design-build estimating process and work with design teams to ensure projects remain aligned with established budgets.
• Identify constructability issues, value-engineering opportunities, potential risks, and cost-saving alternatives.
• Communicate estimating findings and recommendations to project and design teams.
• Build and maintain unit-cost and historical-cost databases to support accurate budgeting.
• Monitor construction materials, processes, market pricing, and labor trends.
• Support the subcontractor buyout process by preparing scope comparisons and assisting with final subcontract negotiations.
• Participate in bid strategy, risk analysis, and proposal development for new project opportunities.
• Support business development efforts by producing competitive budgets and proposals that help win new work.

Skills

Commercial construction estimating

Design-build projects

MEP estimating

Quantity takeoffs

Team collaboration

Tools

Excel

Word

Bluebeam

Adobe Acrobat

On-screen takeoff

Sage 100

Job description

Etzel Engineer and Build, Inc. is seeking an experienced Construction Estimator to develop accurate estimates across the full preconstruction process for design-build projects, including conceptual budgeting, design development, and hard bid phases.

You will work with project teams, subcontractors, vendors, and clients to produce competitive budgets, identify risks, and keep costs aligned as designs evolve. Strong emphasis on mission-critical, data center, and high-reliability environments.