• Estimate the cost to efficiently and economically provide labor, material, equipment and subcontractors to support mechanical projects• Review proposal specifications, drawings and pre-bid meetings to determine scope of work• Assist contracting department during preparation of inquiries and final evaluation of submitted bids as required• Track awarded contracts as required for bid versus construction documents• Review terms and conditions and input information from contracts, legal, taxes, insurance, finance and other support groups for proper bidding strategies • Bidding project from $.5M to $40M in project size• Estimate Mechanical, Structural Steel, Piping, Civil work & Concrete work• Dealing with E&I Subcontractors

• Estimate the cost to efficiently and economically provide labor, material, equipment and subcontractors to support mechanical projects• Review proposal specifications, drawings and pre-bid meetings to determine scope of work• Assist contracting department during preparation of inquiries and final evaluation of submitted bids as required• Track awarded contracts as required for bid versus construction documents• Review terms and conditions and input information from contracts, legal, taxes, insurance, finance and other support groups for proper bidding strategies • Bidding project from $.5M to $40M in project size• Estimate Mechanical, Structural Steel, Piping, Civil work & Concrete work• Dealing with E&I Subcontractors

Oversee day to day activities of project management and estimating team.Provide mentorship and training for fellow estimators, updated data pricing, prepare trend pricing for projects in preconstruction, provide conceptual budgetary pricing, identify value engineering opportunities, fill in minor and major scope/design gaps, provide detailed breakouts for customers, review all project documents and identify scope of work, walk difficult projects, verify estimate accuracy by comparing data versus similar bids, file electronic documents, participate in turnover process to operations and review shop operations staff and field operations staff as necessary to ensure proper production rates are included within project bids.Estimate structural packages of up to 800 tons.

Managed the estimating department which produced 100 million in bids per year for structural, miscellaneous and ornamental steel packages.Primary responsibilities included: provide mentorship and training of fellow estimators, updated data pricing, prepare trend pricing for projects in pre-construction, provide conceptual budgetary pricing, identify value engineering opportunities, fill in minor and major scope/design gaps, provide detailed breakouts for customers, review all project documents and identify scope of work, walk difficult projects, verify estimate accuracy by comparing data versus similar bids, file electronic documents, participate in turnover process to operations and review shop operations staff and field operations staff as necessary to ensure proper production rates are included within project bids.Wrote and managed estimating procedures for consistent estimating.Helped write standard operations procedures in detailing, estimating, project management and shop operations for AISC certification.Estimated steel project up to 5 million.Estimated structural, miscellaneous and ornamental fabrication, detailing hours and installation hours.Set up meetings for pre-bid and bid closes on all bids to review plans, specs and addendums before sending bids to contractors.Managed our bid summary/excel work sheet to produce pricing and break outs for bids.Managed jobs up to 1.5 million.Project manager responsibilities included: contract review, setting up budgets, producing schedules, hiring detailers, order material, issuing cutting tickets/work orders to shop operations, scheduling installation crews, pricing change orders and monthly billing.Document and track all RFI’s, CO’s, ASI’s and drawing logs.Produced monthly estimated cost to complete on all projects which included: project status, accomplishments and/or issues, labor hours; billing and cash flow.Attended project site meetings with contractors to ensure projects were on schedule.