firmacontracting
Senior Estimator
Sherwood Park, Alberta · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
Business DevelopmentExcelLeadershipCommunicationWritingOrganizational SkillsMicrosoft Office
About the role
- Senior Estimator Firma Contracting Inc. is a growing western Canadian based civil contracting company.
- This role requires someone with entrepreneurial spirit and rigor as well as being a great fit with our team.
- Firma offers candidates a highly collaborative environment for growth and leadership opportunity.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Managing Partner and Regional Manager to develop and execute the bidding strategy, progress and reviews.
- Lead and manage the estimating team to deliver accurate and timely estimates / tenders / bids.
- Collaborate with senior management and clients to align on project scopes, budgets, and timelines.
- Develop and implement estimating processes and standards to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Collaborate with other stakeholders as needed for proposal packages and manage timelines and expectations for submissions as well as clarifications, site visits, etc.
- Identify pricing risks with full comprehension of the tender documentation, develop proposal terms and conditions to support/defend pricing, and mitigate risks.
Requirements
- Complete full quantity take-off of all equipment and materials required to complete the project as per contract specifications to ensure accuracy of pricing.
Skills
- Minimum of 3 years experience managing an estimating team for civil scopes
- Experience estimating underground utility scopes is preferred
- Personable and great at building relationships
- Highly skilled in negotiating
- Experience from managing RFQ phase to project award
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (specifically Excel), MS Project and Adobe
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Experienced in reading plans and specifications
- Highly organized and collaborative
- Strong communication skills - able to delegate and provide instructions clearly with sufficient detail
- Proven leadership capabilities and able to mentor direct reports for advancement
- Valid driver's licence
Compensation
- Senior Estimator
- Firma Contracting Inc. is a growing western Canadian based civil contracting company.
- We are looking for someone that can oversee all estimating work and work closely with senior management and ownership to determine opportunities that are a fit and manage proposal development.
- This role requires someone with entrepreneurial spirit and rigor as well as being a great fit with our team.
- Firma offers candidates a highly collaborative environment for growth and leadership opportunity.
- We have a dynamic team with an amazing workplace culture.
Benefits
- Oversee technical writing scopes and work closely with subject matter experts identifying benefits and value-added content for proposal submission.
Apply directly at firmacontracting →Create a free account for alerts like thisView firmacontracting immigration profile
This listing is sourced directly from firmacontracting's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.