Estimator II

UNIRAC INC•Cincinnati, IA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Unirac has been helping installers and developers bring solar projects to life for more than 25 years, providing reliable racking and mounting solutions across residential, commercial, and utility markets. With more than 2.5 million completed installations and 25+ gigawatts of supported solar capacity across North America, Unirac partners with customers from project design through completion with engineering, technical support, and supply-chain expertise. Terrasmart is now a division of Unirac, bringing together two established leaders in solar mounting solutions. The role of Estimator II is to develop product takeoffs and cost estimates as required by the customer's documentation from routine small material-only projects to self-performed utility-scale projects. The Estimator II will also act as a subject matter expert on the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) and other state and federal laws affecting projects.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
2+ years Construction / Estimating experience
Able to sit up to 8 hours per day; work is primarily performed in front of a computer

Nice To Haves

Renewable Energy Industry experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Identify, mark, takeoff, and estimate products of interest to company from contract documents, including all revisions/addenda.
Be the IRA subject matter expert for the Estimating team.
Maintain accuracy of takeoffs, estimates, and quotations of all products submitted by the team, using self-review and post-mortems (post fabrication cost analysis) of project specifications, material, and labor items as well as the final quotation itself, and recapitulate material, labor, equipment, subcontractor, and overhead costs incurred in the fabrication of items across all business products for reporting to the Pre-Construction Manager.
Regularly meet with dependent departments (Engineering, Construction, Operations) on project post-mortems to review actual costs to estimated costs, sources and impact of detractors, update cost estimate templates as needed for estimating accuracy.
Forward requests for information (RFI's) as required to customers and/or owners for items that are not clear and could affect overall cost.
Review and update resource information (standard drawings/specifications, checklists, and notes) to ensure items that impact cost are up to date.
Obtain pricing for materials and coordinate on request for quotes (RFQ's) with internal resources and necessary subcontractors, accurately entering real-time actual cost and selling totals in database for tracking.
Where pre-determined standards are not available, responsible to provide reasonable estimate.
Informs immediate supervisor of any observed inaccuracies or omissions in quoted items or database.
Pursue supervisory review of large estimates.
Maintain adequate lead time on takeoff/estimate preparation.