Senior Estimator- Pre-Construction

Landmark Aquatic is the nation's leading provider of commercial aquatic solutions, offering comprehensive services in design, construction, renovation, restoration, and maintenance. With a history of excellence spanning over four decades, we are dedicated to ensuring the success of aquatic facilities at every stage of their lifecycle. With offices in key metro areas across the U.S., Landmark Aquatic is uniquely positioned to serve communities nationwide. We are committed to upholding the highest standards of quality, safety, and service, fostering long-term partnerships built on trust, expertise, and exceptional results.

Our Mission

We aim to enrich communities by delivering comprehensive world-class aquatic facilities and services.

Core Values

Our values are our guideposts. They're how we make the right decisions, hire the right people, and hold ourselves accountable. We are committed to their authenticity.

• Customer-Centric Approach: We put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our goal is to understand their needs and provide them with exceptional service and solutions.
• Positive Collaboration: We foster a culture of collaboration and open communication. We embrace diverse perspectives and work together to achieve shared goals.
• Excellence in Execution: We consistently strive for exceptional quality in all aspects of our work; to always exceed expectations and deliver outstanding results.
• Adaptability and Innovation: We embrace change and continuously seek opportunities to improve and innovate, remaining flexible and adaptive in a dynamic industry.

The Senior Estimator position is responsible for:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Read, understand, and interpret aquatic plans and specifications.
• Perform quantity take-offs.
• Pricing and bidding of construction and renovation projects.
• Communicate with architects and engineers to clarify scope of work, materials, and schedule requirements, and document these clarifications.
• Coordinate bid invitations with subcontractors, including sending invitations, verifying subcontractor receipt of invitations, confirming if subcontractors intend to bid on projects, supplying any additional information needed by subcontractors to submit their bid, and ensuring subcontractors are aware of and stay within the required timeline.
• Handle scoping of projects, including receiving quotes from subcontractors and vendors.
• Conduct reviews of milestone documents for the development and pricing of value alternative opportunities.
• Actively participate in the internal estimate review process.
• Assemble bid docs with all applicable documents.
• After the bid, collect and organize all bid information for future reference.
• Aid field operations with change order pricing as needed.
• Act as a resource to project management during the award/start-up phase to clarify any issues regarding what was considered in the estimate including materials and methods of construction.
• Review budget and project profitability status and goals with supervision and project team as required.
• Make recommendations for software upgrades, update pricing database.
• Coordinate historical pricing for conceptual budgeting.
• Mentor estimators and Junior estimators.

Subcontractor Analysis for Bids:

• Direct, coordinate, and provide information and documents to subcontractors.
• Prepare contractual exhibits for scope of work for subcontracts.
• Participate in hard bid/estimating and GMP budgeting activities by soliciting subcontractor support and evaluating bids.

Industry Knowledge/Relationships:

• Build relationships with subcontractors to obtain a competitive advantage.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients.
• Keep current with the latest estimating technology and techniques.

Technical Skills Required:

• Proficient in estimating and take off software
• Proficient in Procore Construction Management Software
• Proficient in Microsoft

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering preferred or equivalent work experience

Experience:

• Commercial construction estimating: 5 years (Required)
• Commercial estimating MEP: 5 years (Preferred)
• Commercial concrete estimating: 3 years (Preferred)
• Commercial ground up estimating in excess of $10M: 4 years (Required)