Chief Estimator

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

• Join the client as a Commercial Electrician supporting commercial electrical projects across South Florida. Apply your journeyman-level expertise to power distribution, lighting controls, electrical installations, and related systems.

• Minimum of 10 years of construction estimating experience, including direct senior or lead estimating responsibility.
• Experience estimating in a union construction environment, including understanding labor rules, crew composition, jurisdiction, labor rates, fringes, and how those factors affect production and cost.
• Must have recent hands-on experience personally building complete heavy civil estimates from start to finish.
• Strong technical command of heavy civil estimating, including unit-price and item-based public bidding.
• Demonstrated experience pricing self-performed site work using real crew and equipment production rates.

• Oversee and approve every estimate before final submission, ensuring pricing accuracy, complete scope, and risk mitigation.
• Establish and enforce estimating standards, methods, and documentation requirements.
• Build and maintain historical cost and production-rate databases, using post-bid and post-job reviews and actual project performance.
• Partner with ownership to establish bid strategies, evaluate markups, and lead formal bid/no-bid decision-making.
• Price self-performed heavy civil, site development, and utility work based on real-world production rates, fleet data, and labor costs.