The Estimator will support and work with management, operations and estimating staff in the review of project plans, and specifications. The Estimator shall have extensive knowledge of construction means and methods, costs and engineering principles. Qualified individuals will have estimating experience with heavy highway and commercial projects and posses the ability to produce hard dollar cost estimates for both public and private civil construction projects.

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  Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Read and comprehend contract specifications and drawings, assess project risks.
• Perform accurate detailed take off of quantities from drawings utilizing take off software.
• Calculate labor, equipment and materials costs required for detailed cost estimate.
• Create unit price cost estimate utilizing HCSS software program.
• Communicate and solicit pricing from suppliers and subcontractors as required for bidding. Prepare bid packages. Compare and analyze competitive subcontractor and supplier bids

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Additional Responsibilities:

• Provide pre-bid cost budgets.
• Work with project management staff with both bid handoff and ongoing construction change order costing.
• Develop progress schedules associated with bid activities.
• Analysis job cost information.
• Attend industry and client meetings and visit job sites.

Responsible for the overall sales and marketing for the Private Business Development Department.  Responsible for developing civil, concrete, aggregate, asphalt sales opportunities and marketing the company’s services through various client relationships.

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Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Expand contacts with new General Contractors, owners and engineers to ensure PCI has adequate opportunities to negotiate, team up, joint venture or subcontract projects which support company revenue and profits goals.
• Maintain/advance relationships with General Contractors, owners and engineers that we have worked with on previous projects to ensure PCI has adequate opportunities to negotiate, team up, joint venture or subcontract projects which support company revenue and profit goals.
• Assist and lead corporate, business development, and operations management to determine types of projects to pursue, strategies to pursue those chosen projects, techniques to capture those projects (particularly as it relates to the pre-con in capturing desired opportunities), cost parameters of the design/scopes as design/engineering evolves, potential pursuit costs, etc.
• Manage proposal process for all projects. This will include but is not limited to identifying owner’s needs, developing win strategy, identifying and securing teaming, developing a successful approach, all technical and creative writing, general publishing and overall management of production process.
• Work closely with the VP of Business Development in the preparation of private work sales and marketing plans.
• Contributing significantly to the overall client management on projects from start to finish.

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Additional Responsibilities:

• Maintain program for identifying, tracking and reporting on potential project opportunities.
• Responsible for the coaching and preparing personnel for presentations/interviews to be given to owners and engineers.
• Manage the client critique process for all PCI clients.  This includes conducting project performance reviews with owners and engineers at 50% and 100% completion and maintaining trend logs and reporting tools.

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Required Skill/Knowledge:

• 6 or more years of previous relevant industry experience.
• Excellent technical writing skills required.
• Excellent presentation, negotiation and, interpersonal skills.
• Strong sales aptitude; ability to persuade and influence potential customers.
• Outstanding organizational skills.
• Proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.