Senior Concrete Estimator

Haskell Estimating Manager

At Haskell, you're not just joining a company—you're joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you're starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you'll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you'll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact.

In this role, you will lead preconstruction projects in estimating and provide accurate and detailed cost estimates. Acting as the point of contact, this person will be responsible for the progression of preconstruction pursuits. You will coordinate and conduct crucial preconstruction meetings, working closely with the project directors, architects, and engineers. Additionally, you will assist the director of preconstruction and/or chief estimator with final bid closeout.

Job responsibilities include:

• Pre-estimate: Participates in design review meetings. Reviews and monitors scope, cost, and constructability during design development. Participates in the estimate plan meeting.
• Estimate development: Leads a team of estimators assigned to a proposal. Create the project general conditions. Effectively establish bid strategies required for the company to be successful.
• Subcontractor management: Assist in preparation and review final bid packages to ensure accuracy and completeness, prior to formal quotation. Builds and maintains subcontractor relationships.
• Post estimate: Establishes and/or participates with the development of the project budget development. Ensures that the budget submitted to accounting complies with corporate cost coding standards.
• Database management: Assists with maintaining historical cost data. Maintain files of working documents as back-up for estimate figures.
• Training: Trains preconstruction staff and other personnel as needed. Assists with the development and maintenance of training program.
• Travel: Meets with local subcontractors, attends bid walks, project site visits and attends conferences as necessary. Visits active construction projects as appropriate.

To thrive in this role, you'll need structural concrete estimating experience and technical expertise. Strong self-perform concrete estimating skills, deep constructability expertise and ability to identify risk, strong subcontractor, supplier, and market partner relationship management, conceptual estimating and modeling capabilities, strong preference for experience with water/wastewater projects. Experience in estimating, scheduling, budget/cost control, construction, external & internal client relationships, strong subcontractor & vendor relationships/knowledge, computer skills, interpersonal skills. Knowledge of estimating software (preference for Beck Destini, Accubid, Bluebeam, InSite, etc.) Excellent computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office suite programs Ability to understand owner/engineer requirements with ability to work with conceptual information. Demonstrated success in managing preconstruction pursuits. Ability to train others and monitor their work for quality and completeness. Demonstrated success in managing support staff. Knowledge of industry standard bid practice. Ability to communicate effectively with internal clients, external clients, and subcontractors.

At Haskell, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, professional development opportunities, and more. Join us and be part of a team where your contributions make a difference.

Environmental factors and/or physical requirements: While performing the duties of this job, this position is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations; and the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (life, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information. The associate frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.

Equal opportunity employer / protected veterans / individuals with disabilities: Haskell will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification. Haskell is an equal opportunity employer (females/minorities/protected veterans/individuals with disabilities) and drug-free workplace.