Senior Heavy-Civil Estimator, NC Transportation Projects

Kids for the Future; Nitrolee (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

United Infrastructure Group, Inc. seeks a Senior Estimator with 7+ years of heavy-civil construction experience to lead transportation infrastructure estimates in North Carolina.

You will manage pursuits from review to bid submission, assess plan sets, and coordinate with operations on crews and scheduling. The role requires experience with heavy-highway projects, bid/proposal development, and risk-based cost estimation.

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years of progressively responsible heavy-civil construction experience.
• Experience estimating heavy-highway, bridge or transportation infrastructure projects.
• Experience with Bid2Win, HCSS HeavyBid or an equivalent crew-based construction estimating system.
• Strong knowledge of heavy-civil means and methods, equipment, labor productivity and sequencing.
• Experience developing self-perform estimates and evaluating subcontractor and supplier pricing.
• Ability to interpret construction plans, specifications, geotechnical information, contracts and DOT special provisions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and electronic quantity-takeoff software.
• Strong analytical, organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to travel within the Carolinas as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead complete estimates from pursuit review through final bid submission.
• Review plans, specifications, addenda, contracts and other bid documents to identify scope gaps and risks.
• Manage quantity takeoffs and develop labor, equipment, material and production costs.
• Establish bid items and estimate breakdown structures using Bid2Win.
• Develop project execution plans, schedules, phasing, staging and means-and-methods assumptions.
• Evaluate conditions affecting cost or production (constructability, geotech, utilities, env restrictions).
• Develop value-engineering alternatives and incorporate risk mitigation and contingencies.
• Analyze subcontractor and supplier proposals for scope and risk.
• Use historical cost and data to validate estimating assumptions.
• Coordinate with operations on crews, rates, equipment and sequencing.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or construction management

Tools

Bid2Win

HCSS HeavyBid

Microsoft Excel

Takeoff software

AGTEK

Bluebeam

Primavera P6

Job description

United Infrastructure Group, Inc. seeks a Senior Estimator with 7+ years of heavy-civil construction experience to lead transportation infrastructure estimates in North Carolina.

You will manage pursuits from review to bid submission, assess plan sets, and coordinate with operations on crews and scheduling. The role requires experience with heavy-highway projects, bid/proposal development, and risk-based cost estimation.