Senior Estimator/Preconstruction Manager

Berg Construction, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Berg Construction, a heavy civil contractor near Morgantown, PA, seeks a Senior Estimator / Preconstruction Manager to own the estimating process from takeoff to award.

You will build detailed estimates for underground and site-development work, lead bids in HCSS HeavyBid, and develop bid strategy with the President. 8–10+ years of heavy civil experience preferred.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of meaningful heavy civil experience.
• Ability to discuss production rates and equipment with field leaders.
• Strong understanding of underground work and site development.

Responsibilities

• Personally build detailed heavy civil estimates and bids.
• Lead estimates in HCSS HeavyBid.
• Evaluate plans, specs, quantities, costs, schedule, and risk.
• Develop bid strategy with Berg's President and Owner.
• Pursue opportunities, develop budgets, VE ideas, and constructability solutions.
• Present proposals and help win the work.
• Turn successful projects over to operations after awards.

Skills

Heavy civil estimating

Bid leadership

Client relations

Tools

HCSS HeavyBid

Bluebeam

InSite Elevation

AGTEK

Foundation Software

Job description

Senior Estimator / Preconstruction Manager

Morgantown, PA | Heavy Civil / Excavation | Full-Time, In-Person

Do you know the difference between winning a job and winning a good job?

Berg Construction is looking for an experienced heavy civil estimator who can help us build a profitable backlog-not simply process bids.

We're looking for someone who understands excavation and underground construction, knows what production really looks like in the field, has relationships in the southeastern/southcentral Pennsylvania construction market, and can take an opportunity from the first conversation through estimate, proposal, negotiation, award, and turnover.

You’ll have estimating support for takeoffs, solicitation, and quote gathering. What we need from you is the experience and judgment to lead the process.

What You'll Own

You’ll be responsible for helping Berg identify, pursue, estimate, and win the right work.

That includes:

• Personally building detailed heavy civil estimates and bids.
• Leading estimates in HCSS HeavyBid.
• Evaluating plans, specifications, quantities, production, crews, equipment, materials, subcontractors, schedule, and risk.
• Developing bid strategy alongside Berg's President and Owner.
• Helping determine which opportunities we should-and shouldn't-pursue.
• Developing relationships with GCs, developers, engineers, owners, municipalities, suppliers, and industry partners.
• Finding opportunities instead of simply waiting for invitations to bid.
• Developing budgets, VE ideas, constructability solutions, and negotiated opportunities.
• Presenting proposals and helping sell the work.
• Following opportunities through negotiation and award.
• Formally turning successful projects over to our operations team.
• Comparing estimates to actual project performance so the next estimate gets even better.

Our typical projects range from approximately $500K to $5M and include:

• Mass/site excavation and grading
• Underground utilities
• Stormwater
• Sanitary and water
• Landfill cell construction and closure
• Underground geo-storage
• Related heavy civil/site-development work

Our work is approximately 70% private and 30% public and is generally located within 60–90 minutes of our Morgantown, PA office.

Who We're Looking For

This isn't your first estimating job.

We're looking for someone with roughly 8–10+ years of meaningful heavy civil experience who understands how excavation and underground work gets built-not just how it looks on a spreadsheet.

You should be comfortable talking production rates and equipment with a superintendent in the morning, reviewing pricing with a supplier in the afternoon, and sitting across the table from a developer or GC to sell a proposal.

A background that includes field operations, project management, or superintendent experience is a plus, but it isn't required.

Existing relationships in the regional construction market matter.

So does your ability to build new ones.

Our Tools

We estimate using HCSS HeavyBid and also use Bluebeam, InSite Elevation, AGTEK, and

Foundation Software.

If you're already an experienced HeavyBid user, great.

If you're an excellent heavy civil estimator using another estimating platform, don't let that stop you from talking to us. We can teach software. We're much more interested in your understanding of construction, production, risk, pricing, and people.

Why Berg?

This isn't a position where you'll be buried under layers of corporate approval or handed a stack of bids and told to start estimating.

You’ll have direct access to our President and Owner and a meaningful voice in the work we pursue and how we pursue it.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Influence Berg's project mix and estimating strategy.
• Develop relationships and pursue negotiated work.
• Help shape our preconstruction processes.
• Mentor and develop estimating support personnel.
• Build and eventually help lead a larger preconstruction department.
• Grow with a company where good ideas don't have to travel through five layers of management before somebody acts on them.

You’ll also remain hands-on.

We're looking for a leader who still wants to estimate-not someone who wants to manage estimating from a conference room.

What Matters Here

We don't measure success by how many bids you send out.

And we don't consider winning every job a good thing.

We want the right projects, with the right customers, at margins that allow our people to execute successfully.

If you're an experienced heavy civil estimator who wants more influence over what gets pursued, how it's priced, and how an estimating organization gets built, we'd like to talk.

Position: Senior Estimator / Preconstruction Manager

Location: Morgantown, Pennsylvania

Schedule: Full-Time, In-Person

Territory: Primarily southeastern and southcentral Pennsylvania

Salary: $120K-$160K based on experience