ESTIMATOR RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Feb 21, 2025 - The Estimator develops comprehensive financial budgets for potential land purchases, assists with cost assessments during site evaluations, and formulates development budgets to monitor construction cost and value. Engages in pre-contract technical consultations to advocate for cost-efficient design and building methods, and offers pricing guidance to the sales team. Executes detailed cost analyses, budget reconciliations, and forecasts, ensuring alignment with agreed financial parameters, while maintaining active communication with subcontractors, architects, and stakeholders to streamline project estimations.

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1. Estimator, Bay Construction Services, Tampa, FL

Job Summary: 

  • In collaboration with the procurement team, prioritize and formalize relationships with equipment vendors and service contractors
  • Establish preferred pricing and terms for the company
  • Understand projects’ electrical, structural and civil work scopes and be capable of accurate cost estimates for all three types of scopes
  • Accountable for pricing and equipment and service supplier management during proposals, preconstruction and construction execution
  • Manage RFPs and scope of work packages for 3rd party EPC and O&M contractors
  • Participate in contractor selection and contract negotiation
  • Identify and implement constant improvement initiatives in all the processes of purchases during project execution
  • Manage compliance with supply agreements, deliverables, and milestone achievements
  • Coordinate with firms, suppliers and equipment vendors to ensure adherence to contract terms and delivery of contractual deliverables
  • Collaborate to draft and negotiate master services agreements, and execute project purchase orders inclusive of: conditions, scopes, pricing, and schedule provisions in line with project deal structure
  • Be independently responsible for the development, analysis and completion of the most significant estimates and or proposals in terms of complexity and company importance
  • Lead/contribute to the development of conceptual estimates, pricing strategies
  • Work with other functions and disciplines from across the company to understand and evaluate the labor, material, and other direct and indirect costs associated with proposed contracts and the associated program
  • Develop company estimating and pricing programs and tools
  • Develop detailed Request for Estimates to be used for proposals kick-off


Skills on Resume: 

  • Vendor Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
  • Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
  • Contract Negotiation (Soft Skills)
  • Procurement Process Management (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Management (Soft Skills)
  • Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
  • Strategic Planning (Soft Skills)
  • Project Coordination (Soft Skills)

2. Estimator, Peak Structural Solutions, Denver, CO

Job Summary: 

  • Prepare financial feasibility budgets for potential site purchase
  • Assist the land acquisition teams with cost information at the site appraisal stage
  • Prepare development budgets for use in cost/value monitoring by the construction team
  • Input on technical/design matters at the pre-contract stage to ensure economic design and construction methods are followed
  • Provide cost advice to the sales team
  • Prepare cost/value reconciliation and forecasting on individual contracts of actual costs to completion
  • Prepare and issue budget/cost reconciliation/cost forecasting within agreed budget values.
  • Plan reading and quantity take-off
  • Communicate directly with subcontractors, architects, engineers, and owners
  • Perform administrative tasks to support the estimating department
  • Determine scopes of work and assist with all estimates
  • Maintain various estimating and project logs
  • Analyze project plans, specifications, and contract documents
  • Aid team members in preparation for accurate, competitive bids
  • Perform quantity take-offs and assist with budgeting
  • Request quotes from subcontractors and material suppliers to build estimates
  • Qualify bidding vendors and subcontractors


Skills on Resume: 

  • Financial Feasibility Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Budget Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Forecasting (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Advice (Soft Skills)
  • Project Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Estimation (Hard Skills)
  • Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)

3. Estimator, Horizon Builders, Charlotte, NC

Job Summary: 

  • Receive original work scope and drawings to develop an original bid.
  • Revise original bids by incorporating bid and drawing revisions.
  • Issue final original bid to Project Manager for review with Production.
  • Develop M/H budgets for Production.
  • Review changes to the original work scope. 
  • Add details to the schedule.
  • Review M/H and cost performance of completed projects and update current bidding standards. 
  • Analyze blueprints and other documentation to prepare time, cost, materials, and labor estimates.
  • Assess the cost-effectiveness of products, projects, or services, tracking actual costs relative to bids as the project develops.
  • Conduct special studies to develop and establish standard hours and related cost data or to effect cost reduction.
  • Confer with engineers, architects, owners, contractors, and subcontractors on changes and adjustments to cost estimates.
  • Consult with clients, vendors, personnel in another department, or construction foremen to discuss and formulate estimates and resolve issues.
  • Prepare cost and expenditure statements and other necessary documentation at regular intervals for the duration of the project.
  • Prepare estimates for use in selecting vendors or subcontractors.
  • Prepare estimates used by management for purposes such as planning, organizing, and scheduling work.
  • Review material and labor requirements to decide whether it is more cost-effective to produce or purchase components.

 

Skills on Resume: 

  • Bid Development (Hard Skills)
  • Budgeting (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Blueprint Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Cost-Effectiveness Assessment (Hard Skills)
  • Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
  • Documentation (Hard Skills)

4. Estimator, Riverfront Development Group, Portland, OR

Job Summary: 

  • Attend and participate in initial vendor meetings at the project launch
  • Build and maintain base model and structural option budgets by managing bids and performing quantity takeoffs
  • Ensure product meets target margin and cost goals by performing in-depth cost analysis and bid evaluation
  • Ensure plans and takeoffs align with established takeoff methods
  • Create and maintain construction schedule templates
  • Oversee all stages of projects to ensure the budget is maintained
  • Creating quotations and pricing proposals (and where necessary revising as required)
  • Liaise with Roof Space design team/contracts team/production team/sales team / external
  • Liaise with external suppliers
  • Responsive to on-site queries and efficiently solve issues arising from site-derived idiosyncrasies
  • Responsive to administrative and in-house queries relating to the scheduling of materials
  • Update the quotation workflow to ensure the visibility of projects to another department
  • Act as a key point of contact, liaising with clients, contractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders, delivering excellent customer service
  • Ensure full compliance with Company health, safety, security, and environmental standards
  • Manage subcontractor database
  • Develop innovative ways to improve bid management processes
  • Partner with key operators and managers to implement and streamline estimates that are accurate and fully engage the operations processes.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Budget Management (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Construction Scheduling (Hard Skills)
  • Proposal Creation (Hard Skills)
  • Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
  • Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
  • Compliance Management (Hard Skills)

5. Estimator, Summit Commercial Contracting, Phoenix, AZ

Job Summary: 

  • Manages the bidding processes and locates future job opportunities.
  • Meet or exceed quarterly sales goals and ensure that acceptable profit margins are maintained.
  • Continuously establish new clients and maintain relationships with existing clients.
  • Generate new leads through construction data information, marketing, sales calls, and through existing relationships.
  • Ensure sales and bidding sheets are updated and accurate.
  • Estimate (bid) job costs as accurately as possible using ProjectPAK and prepare proposals for prospective clients.
  • Include as much detail as possible in the proposal including specifications and exclusions.
  • Track all bidding and sales and provide reports 
  • Follow up on bids as necessary to monitor pricing compared to competitors.
  • Monitor the job throughout the process and ensure that everything runs smoothly.
  • Maintain communication with customers and ensure that everything is being taken care of and customers are satisfied.
  • Work with Business Development, Account Management, Operations, and Manufacturing to recommend efficient and suitable production methods that best utilize equipment and provide appropriate margins on products.
  • Work as part of a team and participate in RFP and Planning meetings.
  • Coordinate daily activities in response to customer requests for quotations.
  • Estimates on jobs to ensure timely, cost-effective, process for customer-requested work.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Bidding Management (Hard Skills)
  • Sales Achievement (Soft Skills)
  • Client Management (Soft Skills)
  • Lead Generation (Soft Skills)
  • Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
  • Proposal Creation (Hard Skills)
  • Report Tracking (Hard Skills)
  • Collaboration (Soft Skills)

6. Estimator, Cedar Design & Construction, Dallas, TX

Job Summary: 

  • Support the development of an estimate strategy through a gated project process
  • Prepare and develop estimates and basis of estimates for investment strategy and feasibility studies
  • Produce estimates in compliance with EDF Energy standards and procedures, and issue estimates in accordance with the project life cycle
  • Assist in the development of and use of Project Control Structures (CBS, OBS, WBS etc.)
  • Regular interface and integration with the project planner to ensure alignment between estimate and Project Plan
  • Collate and interpret historical cost information and data to inform the project cost estimate at each phase of the project
  • Review and validate estimates from internal and external sources
  • Participate in the Project Risk Management process and prepare Project Risk Logs for input to the estimates
  • Carry out estimate uncertainty and event risk analysis and modeling to provide provision for uncertainty
  • Provide input to the tender review process, including claim evaluations and valuations of significant changes
  • Assist in the development and maintenance of standards and procedures
  • Provide support and guidance to users with respect to the methods, processes, and procedures owned by the Estimating & Risk Group
  • Contribute to lessons learned process at project closeout


Skills on Resume: 

  • Estimate Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
  • Investment Feasibility (Hard Skills)
  • Project Control Structures (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Management (Soft Skills)
  • Uncertainty Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Tender Review (Hard Skills)
  • Process Support (Soft Skills)

7. Estimator, Valley Construction Services, Las Vegas, NV

Job Summary: 

  • Maximise change entitlements under the contract
  • Proactive identification and raising change notices as required and convert to compensation events, where applicable
  • Preparing quotations for compensation events, proposed compensation events and orders of magnitude for potential changes as directed
  • Manage, update, and maintain a change register that tracks the progress of all changes
  • Reconcile with central change team information and update for the period reporting requirements
  • Review subcontractor and supplier change accounts for the purposes of identifying and raising upstream change
  • Ensure any main contract change is communicated to the relevant delivery personnel and subcontractor package managers 
  • Progress chase potential changes from the Project Manager, Design Consultant, and Tier 2 suppliers 
  • Design, identify, and raise changes arising from the developed design
  • Work closely with the Design Manager to capture external change.
  • Program impact of change
  • Understand the relationship of change upon planned program activities and work with the Planners to capture the time-related effects
  • Interpret the program impact into the effect on defined cost including forecast defined cost
  • Work closely with the delivery team and the Project Manager to achieve mutual objectives.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Change Management (Hard Skills)
  • Compensation Events (Hard Skills)
  • Quotation Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Change Register Maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Design Change Identification (Hard Skills)
  • Program Impact Analysis (Hard Skills)

8. Estimator, Alpine Development Enterprises, Salt Lake City, UT

Job Summary: 

  • Preparation of multi-discipline cost estimates for projects at various stages and values ($500K to 40M)
  • Provide constructability support and advice to design teams and project managers
  • Develop cost estimates through either first principles and/or unit rate techniques
  • Conduct analysis of previous estimates and tender submissions.
  • Develop or assist others in developing project implementation plans including project delivery methodology and construction schedules
  • Analyse previous project cost and time data as well as contribute to maintaining benchmarking databases
  • Conduct estimate presentations and reviews and author detailed Basis of Estimate reports
  • Process quotations and internal costing. 
  • Analyze requests for compatibility with The Gill Corporation process capabilities
  • Coordinates exceptional material and process requirements with R&D, production, quality control, and purchasing. 
  • Prepares detailed cost/price sheet of the project and forwards to supervisor for review and forwarding to V.P. of Sales and Marketing for pricing.
  • Understand and interpret customer technical requirements
  • Understand production process capabilities
  • Perform and manage time studies to update BOMs and Routers
  • Assist operations in cost-reduction efforts
  • Keeps the Sales and Marketing team abreast of cost impacts resulting from process/component changes


Skills on Resume: 

  • Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
  • Constructability Support (Soft Skills)
  • Estimation Techniques (Hard Skills)
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Project Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Benchmarking (Hard Skills)
  • Process Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Technical Interpretation (Soft Skills)

9. Estimator, Coastal Engineering Co., Miami, FL

Job Summary: 

  • Acquire a thorough understanding of the tender documentation, the Client requirements/aspirations, and the required tender deliverables
  • Determine proposal subcontract and material requirements, ensure that all necessary inquiries are secured via the Procurement Dept., and check/validate inquiry returns
  • Work with the Proposal Team to ensure the timely production of the cost estimate in accordance with both the proposal and corporate requirements
  • Prepare review papers and summary documentation to achieve gate sign-off prior to submission
  • Ensure timely creation and delivery of assigned estimates within agreed-upon turnaround times
  • Configure Quotes in Salesforce CPQ based on the final estimate
  • Ensure pricing for all campaign services conforms with the agreed-upon price book established by leadership
  • Ensure discounts are approved in accordance with leadership policies prior to applying to customer estimates
  • Obtain pricing on material and equipment
  • Attend pre-bid meetings and site visits
  • Lead the project team on small projects
  • Direct and supervise the work of project engineers to establish operational priorities
  • Responsible for the overall direction, completion, and financial outcome of multiple construction projects simultaneously
  • Preparing detailed scopes of work and developing conceptual estimates
  • Manage subcontractor and vendor solicitations
  • Interpret plans and drawings


Skills on Resume: 

  • Tender Documentation Understanding (Hard Skills)
  • Proposal Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
  • Review (Hard Skills)
  • Time Management (Soft Skills)
  • Pricing Configuration (Hard Skills)
  • Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Project Supervision (Soft Skills)