Your new company

Hays is partnered with an employee-owned full-service commercial general contractor that has been operating for more than 100 years. The company is based in Whittier, California, and provides services such as general contracting, design-build, and construction management throughout Southern California.

Our client has completed over 1000 projects in various sectors, including education, healthcare, municipal/government.

The company is recruiting a Senior Construction Estimator with experience in DSA and/or OSHPD projects.

Your new role

As a Senior Construction Estimator, your mission will be the overall planning and management of estimating activities for specific construction projects, including preparation, interpretation, and presentation of estimates.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Attends all job walks and related meetings.
• Compiles and reviews subcontractor proposals.
• Prepares bids for submission to clients or general contractors.
• Manages bids, develops bid strategies, clarifications, and qualifications.
• Analyzes value engineered options and assemble alternates.
• Participate in final job cost review to determine project status with respect to the original estimate.
• Reviews sequencing of work and determines what work must be completed prior to beginning the work being estimated.
• Understands logic of critical path management (CPM) scheduling systems and can understand the lead times associated with the project schedule.
• Understands needs associated with procurements log for all long lead material and related costs.
• Has ability to prepare work schedule and personnel requirements along with a general timeline schedule with rough durations and an overall time frame of the project.

What you'll need to succeed

Four-year degree and/or at least ten years of relevant experience within the same industry is required.

Ideally, you will have at least 5 years of experience as a Construction Estimator bidding in similar type of projects. However, you’re encouraged to apply as well if you have at least 3 years of experience in such projects.

It is highly recommended to have a local subcontractor base.

What you'll get in return

The annual salary range for this role is 130,000.00 - 180,000.00 USD depending on the candidate's experience.

The benefits package includes ESOP plan, a very competitive 401k, healthcare, PTO, Paid Sick Leave, Life insurance / disability, and others.

What you need to do now

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