Senior Estimator, Self-Perform Civil & Concrete

Prairie Landworks•McPherson, KS

4d•$115,000 - $145,000•Onsite

About The Position

Prairie Landworks is a growing company that believes in doing meaningful work with character and integrity, creating a safe and rewarding place for employees to build a career. They self-perform key parts of their work and take pride in building projects to high standards. The company focuses on keeping projects close to home so their team can return to their families at night.

Requirements

Solid estimating experience in heavy civil, industrial, commercial, municipal, concrete, utility, earthwork, foundation, or similar self-performed work.
Ability to lead estimates or move from participating in estimates to owning more of the bid from start to finish.
Comfortable doing real estimating work yourself, including detailed reviews, takeoffs, coordination, and bid-day decisions.
Understanding that numbers matter, and good estimating depends on production reality, communication, and knowing which jobs are worth chasing.
Judgment to work with unknowns, especially when scope, risk, client expectations, or schedule need to be sorted out before the bid is final.
Willingness to grow into more responsibility around systems, process, mentorship, client conversations, and preconstruction leadership.
Experience using HCSS HeavyBid or another estimating system, or sufficient estimating software experience to learn HeavyBid with support.

Nice To Haves

Experience across civil, GC, and industrial self-performance work.
Exposure to design-build or preconstruction.
Familiarity with Acumatica or other ERP systems.
Experience helping implement or refine estimating systems.
Experience mentoring another estimator or helping bring structure to an estimating process.
Local or regional knowledge in central Kansas.

Responsibilities

Help chase the right work, price it well, and keep bids grounded in how the work actually gets built.
Protect margin and support the right kind of growth by estimating $200K to $7M heavy civil, concrete, utility, earthwork, foundation, process piping, and commercial/municipal building projects.
Build accurate, competitive bids by handling takeoffs, subcontractor and supplier coordination, site visits, risk review, bid reviews, and timely proposal submission.
Keep self-perform estimating tied to field reality by pricing work in a way that crews can actually build.
Support better bid decisions by bringing estimating judgment, project fit, production reality, and client relationships into the conversation early.
Help win work on more than price by explaining scope, risks, approach, and value clearly when clients, partners, or internal leaders need it.
Grow into more preconstruction responsibility by learning how Prairie Landworks approaches planning, design coordination, preliminary scheduling, value engineering, and project readiness before work hits the field.
Build toward more estimating systems ownership by helping refine HeavyBid setup, workflows, and consistency with support from the people already doing that work.
Develop into a stronger estimating leader by sharing structure, mentoring as appropriate, and helping shape the estimating team as the company grows.