Position: Construction Estimator
Work Hours: Monday to Friday 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM PST
Pay Range: USD 1000 to 1200 per month
Company/Client Overview:
USbased provider of roller shades blinds draperies and cubicle curtains
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Utilize Foxit PhantomPDF to create edit review highlight notate and measure PDF documents.
- Use Microsoft Word & Excel to create edit and review documents while maintaining detailed notes in each database.
- Manage and organize files through a digital database.
- Prepare bid forms and send them to contractors.
- Contact contractors via phone and email before and after bid time to review scope pricing and close contracts.
- Submit RFIs (Requests for Information) to general contractors for bids and contracted projects.
- Prepare submittals with cover sheets product data fabric cards shop drawings details and window schedules.
- Mail physical samples to contractors while maintaining a detailed submittal log.
- Add new contracts to the contract log.
- Meet 35 deadlines per day while effectively prioritizing tasks.
- Manage a workload of 2040 bids per month (takeoffs revisions followups phone calls notes).
Qualifications:
- 13 years of construction estimating experience.
- Proficient in reading architectural plans and creating takeoffs.
- Strong experience in negotiating and closing contracts.
- Selfmotivated detailoriented and highly organized.
- Strong problemsolving and multitasking abilities.
- Comfortable communicating via phone and email with excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Adaptable to frequent bid changes (new documents revised deadlines).
- Passion for tedious tasks and puzzles.
- 99% of work time will be spent on the computer.