Senior Fabrication Estimator: Lead Complex Projects

Loenbro; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company to

Paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay

Life and disability insurance

Professional development and training

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Job summary

Loenbro is seeking a Senior Fabrication Estimator to develop complete fabrication estimates across our fabrication capabilities. You will lead technical reviews, advise leadership and Operations, and mentor estimators without formal management duties.

Estimates cover material procurement, shop labor, equipment, subcontract services, quality requirements, and delivery. Structural steel and piping fabrication experience is preferred, with emphasis on risk, complexity, and turnover.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant estimating or equivalent directly applicable construction or shop fabrication experience.
• Fabrication estimating experience, including material takeoff, shop labor development, supplier pricing, and fabrication methods.
• Ability to mentor others and influence consistent estimating practices.
• Proficiency with estimating, digital takeoff, spreadsheet, reporting, and document-management systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead fabrication estimates from pursuit planning through proposal and turnover, defining shop fabrication, delivery, and any field scope boundaries.
• Review drawings, specifications, models, bills of material, and applicable fabrication details to establish quantities, fabrication requirements, scope gaps, and execution assumptions.
• Lead estimate reviews and provide independent QA/QC for fabrication pursuits, reconciling quantities, material costs, labor hours, exclusions, and pricing.
• Develop conceptual and detailed estimates for fabricated products and assemblies within the company’s capabilities, including materials, labor, equipment, subcontract services, and delivery.
• Estimate cutting, forming, machining, fitting, welding, assembly, handling, and loading, as applicable to the scope, using documented shop production rates and fabrication requirements.
• Obtain and evaluate quotes for raw materials, purchased components, detailing, coatings, specialty fabrication services, inspection, testing, freight, and other services required by the specifications.
• Advise Operations and leadership on fabrication sequence, shop capacity, procurement lead times, material waste, risk, contingency, value engineering, and commercial position.
• Mentor estimators and improve technical consistency without requiring formal personnel-management responsibility.
• Develop and maintain fabrication labor factors, material pricing, shop productivity benchmarks, weld quantities, historical cost data, and estimating tools and templates.
• Lead estimate turnover and lessons learned for assigned pursuits, communicating the basis of estimate, production assumptions, procurement requirements, inclusions, exclusions, and delivery commitments.

Skills

Fabrication estimating

QA/QC oversight

Mentoring estimators

Cost development

Education

Technical certification

Tools

HCSS HeavyBid

Tekla

Excel/Spreadsheet

Job description

Loenbro is seeking a Senior Fabrication Estimator to develop complete fabrication estimates across our fabrication capabilities. You will lead technical reviews, advise leadership and Operations, and mentor estimators without formal management duties.

Estimates cover material procurement, shop labor, equipment, subcontract services, quality requirements, and delivery. Structural steel and piping fabrication experience is preferred, with emphasis on risk, complexity, and turnover.