Senior HVAC Estimator – Retrofits & Building Systems

EMCOR Group, Inc.; San Leandro, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) Savings Plan

Life insurance and disability coverage

Employee assistance program

Job summary

EMCOR Group, Inc. in California is seeking a Senior Estimator to support the sales team through preconstruction activities, including job walks, scope development, budgeting, estimating, and labor-hour analysis for HVAC retrofit and related mechanical projects.

The role covers design/build scopes and regulatory compliance to ensure accurate proposals. The successful candidate will review documents, prepare final estimate packages, coordinate with account managers, engineers, vendors, and the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of estimating, engineering, construction management, or business management experience.
• 4+ years’ experience with HVAC design and building construction.
• Knowledge of the practical application of mechanical engineering, including redline-designs, design techniques, plans and specifications and the RFQ & RFP process for the budgeting and bidding of retrofit projects.
• Thorough knowledge of the mechanical retrofitting of commercial buildings, hospitals, data centers, K-14, and universities, including energy projects that involve integration, DDC, engineering, commissioning, M&V, and energy analysis.

Responsibilities

• Actively gather information for each estimating job by talking directly with the account manager, the end user, the engineering team, the estimating team, vendors, and/or other sources of information.
• Ability to interpret field conditions to determine project direction and to provide costs associated with large-scale mechanical retrofit projects without the use of drawings, plans, or specifications.
• Will submit written scopes of work, project scheduling, engineering solutions that comply with regulatory agencies, and estimating, including conceptual estimates, project delivery methods, construction economic and accounting principles, and operational leadership focusing on synergistic harmony between departments and processes.
• Generate sales and Excel spreadsheets that are complete and accurate for the project and that comply with Title 24.
• Perform constructability and code compliance reviews of the proposal, estimate, design documents, or engineered solution and effectively document and communicate constructability and risk concerns.
• Understand and have a working knowledge of the California Mechanical Code and local municipal codes.
• Compile thorough and detailed lists of qualifications, clarifications, and exclusions to communicate our budget assumptions to the client effectively.
• Prepare accurate replacement equipment list, sheet metal, piping, and labor estimates.
• Obtain scopes of work and pricing from subcontractors and suppliers.
• Assist with pricing change orders.

Skills

Estimating expertise

Project coordination

Communication skills

Education

Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Project

Word

Job description

EMCOR Group, Inc. in California is seeking a Senior Estimator to support the sales team through preconstruction activities, including job walks, scope development, budgeting, estimating, and labor-hour analysis for HVAC retrofit and related mechanical projects.

The role covers design/build scopes and regulatory compliance to ensure accurate proposals. The successful candidate will review documents, prepare final estimate packages, coordinate with account managers, engineers, vendors, and the