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TITLE: VP, Estimating & Business Development

JOB ID: 427266

RESUME TO: Apply at https://edacontractors.com/careers.

LOCATION: Bensalem, PA

DUTIES:

Work collaboratively with the Operations department while leading and managing the Estimating team to drive accountability toward innovative, competitive, and compliant estimates and proposals following robust and clearly defined estimating procedures. Maintain existing relationships and build new relationships within existing and potential clients. Develop winning strategies through engagement with estimate kickoff process and estimate review process. Delegate and assign estimates to the team while ensuring estimating team accountability, and ensuring pending estimates are submitted thoroughly, completely, and on-time with high quality and fully compliant forms and submittals. Establish estimating standards for all estimates and oversee analysis of past performance on estimates. Act as the estimating strategic leader recognizing areas of estimating improvements through observation or from recommendations from the team. Engage throughout the preconstruction process to ensure understanding of the project goals, client goals, and drive the estimate strategy throughout the estimating and review process. Cultivate and maintain strong partnerships with diverse subcontractor and vendor partners, including overseeing final subcontractor and vendor selections while applying prequalification standards and procedures. Create and maintain strong, unique leads for the company, ensuring EDA is positioned to be market competitive with knowledge of the company’s market position and creating strategies to create breadth and depth in new markets for each trade by region. Work collaboratively with the Marketing, Branding and Communications departments to ensure a blended approach to external brand and marketing. Ensure profitable project budgets by overseeing the estimate hand-off process between Preconstruction and Operations.

EDUCATION/REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s Degree (or foreign equivalent) in Construction Management, Architecture, or a closely related field. 5 years of experience estimating the commercial construction roofing, historical restoration, and waterproofing projects. 5 years of experience in architecture and preparing and reviewing shop drawings using AutoCAD and Google SketchUp. 5 years of experience organizing quality take-offs to determine full list of materials and quantity required to complete a construction project using computer-aided software including Bluebeam and Onscreen. 5 years of experience using Microsoft Project and Office to collaborate with project managers, engineers, and stakeholders to prepare, organize, monitor, and ensure accurate cost estimates. 5 years of estimating competitive bids including large scale, public work, and commercial project bids of $10 million and higher. 5 years of experience reviewing contract documents and Architectural, Civil, MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) drawings with project specifications. 3 years of experience reviewing construction project contracts including terms and conditions, payment processes, liens, liquidated damages, job durations, and schedule days of each project. 3 years of experience using PROCORE, Building Connected, Cost Ease software, and PlanGrid project management software to monitor, update, and communicate progress of construction activities. Up to 20 % domestic travel within 50 to 60 miles radius annually. Remote work is permitted up to 2-3 days in a month.

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