Job Description

Leadership

• Ultimately responsible for the success of the Project the individual is working on.
• Lead a Preconstruction Team for any project at any stage of documents.
• Develop a Responsibilities Matrix and Project Execution Plan for every project the estimator is leading

Get Work

• Must be prepared to participate and often lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Participating and Leading in RFP Responses, interviews, and client proposal efforts
• Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers.
• Ability to lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Creates Preconstruction Projects in Cosential and CMIC, Creates and Manages CMIC Preconstruction Budgets

Do Work

• Handling the project from first estimate all the way through subcontracts being formalized.
• Can participate in any role within the Precon Group - from ITB to GMP to Procurement from Concept Estimate to 100% Documents.
• Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete project cost evaluation.
• Must be a collaborative and passionate advocate for our customers, empowering and informing them throughout the project.
• Must be aggressive in providing innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials.
• Ability to make reliable predictions as it relates to cost and be comfortable estimating across all scopes of work.
• Detailed cost estimates and cost studies from concept through 100% construction documents
• Develop and present variance summaries from estimate to estimate.
• Develop and present Value Engineering strategies for all types of projects.
• Ability to assemble and present a complete estimate package that clearly communicates project cost.
• Collaborate with project team to establish the necessary staffing and project requirements.
• Knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost for every trade package across all core markets.
• Prepare detailed instructions to bidders, develop bid lists, set up DPR Bid Documents during the bid period
• Develop Attachment 2 Scopes of work for all bid packages
• Develop and complete Tally Sheets / Scope Sheets for GMPs and Hard Bids.
• Understands, develops, analyzes proper Code 51 & 52 for every project.
• Responsible for developing Hard Bid and GMP submissions complete - Executive Summary, Detailed GMP, Clarifications, Tally Sheets, Backup, etc.
• Has deep relationships with numerous Trade Partners
• Manages and participates in the entire bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc.
• Manages and participates in the entire procurement process: finalizing Attachment 2s, Subcontracting Procedures, providing FOC and Project Team with applicable information to issue a Subcontract
• Is an expert on Prequalification and capable of selecting Trade Partners based on their Prequalification.
• Negotiate Scope of Work terms and conditions within the Attachment 2
• Develops and submits subcontractor award recommendations to customer/owner
• Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key insurance and damages clauses.
• Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team.
• Is a key participant with leadership experience involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Has an understanding of the market and current conditions
• Has metrics for scopes of work and core markets to analyze all levels of estimates.
• Reviews MSRs on a monthly basis for the major projects

Take Care of People

• Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project.
• Host career development and performance discussions with the Estimators and Estimating Assistants assigned to them. 

DPR has been nationally recognized for its strong company culture, based on a well-defined purpose “We Exist to Build Great Things,” and four core values: integrity, enjoyment, uniqueness and ever forward. A flat, title-less organization that empowers people at all levels to make decisions, DPR ranked on FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for five consecutive years. For more information, visit http://www.dpr.com.