Remote Sr. Rebar Estimator/Detailer
About The Position
This is a remote, full-time position with periodic travel to project sites and company meetings. Reporting to the President / Executive Management, the Sr. Rebar Estimator/Detailer is a key technical resource for estimating, project management and operations. The role will help establish the company’s estimating standards, production rates, historical cost database and reinforcing-steel preconstruction process. The successful candidate will 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 reliable estimates of project cost and risk. The position also prepares and/or reviews placing drawings and bar lists, coordinates reinforcing steel with other disciplines, and supports project teams through turnover, change-order pricing and field issue resolution. The role will contribute to department development by standardizing procedures, creating templates and production-rate databases, helping select and implement software, mentoring junior staff, and establishing quality-control procedures. The successful candidate is expected to build toward leading the company’s reinforcing-steel estimating/detailing function.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of reinforcing-steel industry experience; preference for 10 or more 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 ability to read structural drawings and specifications.
- Strong understanding of reinforcing-steel fabrication and field placement.
- Working knowledge of ACI and CRSI requirements and industry practices.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AutoCAD, MicroStation, RebarCAD, aSa, Tekla, SDS/2 or comparable software is strongly preferred.
- Experience working for a reinforcing-steel fabricator, rebar placing contractor, rebar detailing company, large concrete contractor, heavy civil contractor, industrial concrete contractor or wastewater treatment construction contractor.
- Experience with wastewater treatment plants, industrial facilities, power projects, data centers, bridges, foundations, tanks or other heavily reinforced concrete structures.
Responsibilities
- Perform complete reinforcing-steel quantity takeoffs from structural drawings and specifications.
- Develop estimates for material, fabrication, detailing, placing labor, equipment, freight and other project costs.
- Establish project-specific labor hours and production assumptions.
- Analyze bar sizes, tonnage, congestion, splice requirements, couplers, dowels, embeds and other reinforcing requirements.
- Review plans and specifications for scope gaps, discrepancies, constructability concerns and project risks.
- Prepare conceptual, preliminary and final estimates, and assist management with bid strategy and selling price.
- Solicit and evaluate material, fabrication, freight and subcontractor pricing when required.
- Maintain organized estimate documentation and assumptions.
- Review structural drawings and specifications for detailing requirements; prepare and/or review placing drawings and bar lists.
- Coordinate reinforcing steel with structural, architectural and MEP requirements and identify conflicts or constructability issues.
- Review reinforcing details, including bar sizes, bends, laps, development lengths, couplers, dowels and construction joints.
- Coordinate reinforcing-steel RFIs, drawing revisions and changes throughout projects.
- Work with project management and field personnel to resolve detailing and constructability issues.
- Participate in project turnover, preconstruction meetings and project strategy discussions.
- Establish project-specific production and labor assumptions and develop historical cost information.
- Compare estimated versus actual production and labor performance.
- Assist project managers with change-order pricing and cost analysis, and provide technical support to field supervision when required.
- Establish standardized estimating procedures, templates, checklists, production-rate databases and quality-control procedures for takeoffs and placing drawings.
- Help select and implement estimating/detailing software and mentor junior estimators and detailers as the department grows.
- Build toward assuming responsibility for the company’s reinforcing-steel estimating/detailing function.
Benefits
- Competitive annual performance bonus based on estimating accuracy, gross-margin performance, successful project awards, department development, process improvements, project support and overall company performance.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
