Location: Remote
Employment: Full-Time
Travel: Periodic travel to project sites and company meetings
Reports To: President / Executive Management
This is a key position within the company. The successful candidate will not simply prepare quantity takeoffs. They will become a technical resource for estimating, project management, and operations teams and will help establish the company’s estimating standards, production rates, historical cost database, and reinforcing-steel preconstruction process.
The ideal candidate has substantial hands-on experience in the reinforcing-steel industry, preferably with a rebar fabricator, reinforcing contractor, placer, or major concrete contractor.
The individual must be able to independently review structural drawings and specifications, perform reinforcing-steel takeoffs, develop labor and material pricing, understand detailing requirements, identify constructability issues, and provide management with a reliable estimate of the cost and risk associated with a project.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Rebar Estimating:
- Perform complete reinforcing-steel quantity takeoffs from structural drawings and specifications.
- Develop accurate estimates for material, fabrication, detailing, placing labor, equipment, freight and other project costs.
- Establish labor hours and production assumptions based on project-specific conditions.
- Analyze bar sizes, tonnage, congestion, splice requirements, couplers, dowels, embeds and other reinforcing requirements.
- Review plans and specifications for scope gaps, discrepancies and constructability concerns.
- Identify project risks and potential cost exposures before bid submission.
- Prepare conceptual, preliminary, and final estimates.
- Assist management in establishing final bid strategy and selling price.
- Solicit and evaluate material, fabrication, freight, and subcontractor pricing when required.
- Maintain organized estimate documentation and assumptions.
Rebar Detailing:
- Review structural drawings and specifications for detailing requirements.
- Prepare and/or review reinforcing-steel placing drawings and bar lists.
- Coordinate reinforcing steel with structural, architectural, and MEP requirements.
- Identify conflicts, congestion, and constructability issues before they reach the field.
- Review bar sizes, bends, laps, development lengths, couplers, dowels, and construction joints.
- Coordinate RFIs related to reinforcing steel.
- Review shop/placing drawings for accuracy and constructability.
- Coordinate revisions and changes throughout the project.
- Work with project management and field personnel to resolve detailing and constructability issues.
Preconstruction & Operations:
- Participate in project turnover from estimating to project management.
- Establish project-specific production and labor assumptions.
- Develop historical cost information for future estimates.
- Compare estimated versus actual production and labor performance.
- Assist project managers with change-order pricing and cost analysis.
- Provide technical support to field supervision when required.
- Participate in preconstruction meetings and project strategy discussions.
Leadership / Department Development:
- Establish standardized estimating procedures
- Develop estimating templates, checklists, and production-rate databases.
- Help select and implement estimating/detailing software.
- Mentor junior estimators and detailers as the department grows.
- Establish quality-control procedures for takeoffs and placing drawings.
- Eventually assume responsibility for the company's reinforcing-steel estimating/detailing function.
IDEAL EXPERIENCE:
The strongest candidates will have:
- 7+ years of reinforcing-steel industry experience, with preference for 10+ years.
- Significant experience estimating reinforcing steel.
- Significant experience detailing reinforcing steel or reviewing placing drawings.
- Experience with large commercial, industrial, wastewater, infrastructure, heavy civil or other concrete-intensive projects.
- Experience estimating projects involving substantial reinforcing-steel tonnage.
- Strong structural drawing and specification reading ability.
- Strong understanding of reinforcing-steel fabrication and field placement.
- Working knowledge of ACI and CRSI requirements and industry practices.
- Experience with AutoCAD, MicroStation, RebarCAD, aSa, Tekla, SDS/2 or comparable software is strongly preferred.
- Strong mathematical and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- Ability to communicate effectively with project managers, engineers, contractors, vendors and field personnel.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- A formal college degree is not required if the candidate has substantial relevant industry experience.
HIGHLY DESIRED BACKGROUND:
Preference will be given to candidates who have worked for:
- Reinforcing-steel fabricators
- Rebar placing contractors
- Rebar detailing companies
- Large concrete contractors
- Heavy civil contractors
- Industrial concrete contractors
- Wastewater treatment construction contractors
- Experience with wastewater treatment plants, industrial facilities, power, data centers, bridges, foundations, tanks or other heavily reinforced concrete structures is particularly valuable.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:
Within the first 6 months, the successful candidate should be capable of:
- Independently estimating major reinforcing-steel bids.
- Reviewing bid documents and identifying major scope and constructability risks.
- Producing reliable tonnage and labor estimates.
- Supporting project managers with change-order pricing.
- Establishing reliable production-rate benchmarks.
- Developing a historical estimating database.
- Improving consistency and accuracy throughout the estimating process.
- Beginning to build and lead a scalable estimating/detailing department.
PERFORMANCE BONUS:
Highly competitive annual performance bonus, based on:
- Estimating accuracy
- Gross-margin performance
- Successful project awards
- Department development
- Process improvements
- Project support
- Overall company performance
BENEFITS:
We offer a competitive benefits package including:
- Health insurance
- Dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Company-provided technology
- Flexible work arrangement
- Professional development
- Opportunity for advancement into department leadership