Residential Design & Estimating Specialist

Lightspeed•Northbrook, IL

10d•Onsite

About The Position

LightSpeed Build Technologies is hiring a Residential Design & Estimating Specialist to own residential designs in Revit from plan set through production-ready model and to produce initial project pricing. The role connects design, estimating, engineering, and robotic production: the specialist reviews customer and architecture-partner plans, creates clean models that support fabrication, and provides the quantities and early estimates used to respond to customers. The specialist works closely with the Preconstruction & Procurement Manager, who uses the takeoffs and estimates to develop full bid packages with subcontractor and supplier pricing. The position is onsite in Northbrook, Illinois.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience modeling residential buildings in Revit to construction-document level, including structural framing and MEP, not only architectural shells.
Hands-on experience producing quantity takeoffs, bills of materials, or construction estimates from drawings or models.
Strong practical knowledge of U.S. wood-frame construction and working familiarity with IRC and NEC.
Ability to identify plan-set gaps and conflicts and raise them early.
Disciplined modeling practices and reliable delivery against firm milestones.
Ability to work onsite in Northbrook, Illinois.

Nice To Haves

Degree in architecture, architectural technology, construction management, or a related field.
Prefab, panelized, or modular construction experience.
Experience with BTLx or framing tools such as hsbCAD, StrucSoft MWF, or SEMA, and IFC export validation.
Experience with RSMeans or other cost databases.
Multifamily residential experience.
Interest in using AI tools to speed up modeling, takeoffs, and estimating.

Responsibilities

Review customer and architecture-partner plan sets and identify missing, unclear, or conflicting information before plans reach the factory.
Develop designs from rough layouts through review cycles into approved, construction-ready plans, including renderings when useful to customer decisions.
Build and maintain standard plan sets and Revit templates for new projects.
Build and correct construction-ready Revit models covering architecture, wood structural framing to IRC prescriptive requirements, and MEP rough-in.
Maintain clean, consistently structured models—including naming, families, and levels—for reliable IFC and BTLx exports.
Verify that designs are buildable by LightSpeed’s robotic system and work with engineering to address designs that are not.
Coordinate model updates with outside design partners and maintain one current version of each project.
Produce model-based quantity takeoffs and bills of materials for lumber, sheathing, fasteners, windows, doors, and MEP rough-in.
Prepare initial project estimates using the robotic-construction cost model and industry cost data, such as RSMeans, adjusted for location.
Hand finished takeoffs and estimates to the Preconstruction & Procurement Manager for bid packages and buyout.
Update quantities and pricing when designs change and identify cost or schedule impacts.