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    VP of Estimating - Coppell, United States - Austin Bridge

    Austin Bridge
    Austin Bridge Coppell, United States

    1 week ago

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    Description

    Austin Bridge & Road is currently seeking a VP of Estimating to join the team at our corporate headquarters located in Coppell, Texas.

    The VP of estimating will provide leadership, management, and team development within the estimating department.

    This hands-on role includes leading robust client interaction, strategic project identification, developing highly collaborative business partnerships, and ensuring we submit high-quality estimates and proposals.

    Supervisory Responsibilities


    • Estimating Manager
    • Senior Estimator
    • Estimator
    • Scheduler
    Functional Areas of Responsibility


    • Ensure all estimating activities align with one of Austin's core values: Integrity, with specific emphasis on client and business partner interaction
    • Work collaboratively with operations 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
    Specific Duties and Responsibilities


    • Maintain existing relationships and build new relationships within existing and potential clients
    • Develop win strategies through engagement with estimate kickoff process and estimate review process
    • Lead the "RFP" process by developing fee proposals, team selection, and attending interviews as needed
    • Delegate and assign estimates to the team while ensuring estimating team accountability
    • Ensure all 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 "subject matter expert". Recognize areas of estimating improvements through observation or from recommendations from the team
    • Engage throughout the preconstruction process as needed to ensure understanding of the project goals, client goals, and drive the estimate strategy throughout the estimating process and review
    • Cultivate and maintain strong partnerships with diverse subcontractors and vendors partners
    • Oversee final subcontractor and vendor selections while applying prequalification standards and procedures
    • Develop and maintain client, subcontractor, and other industry relationships at the appropriate level, reinforcing commitment to continuously address their needs and interests
    • Actively participate in company-wide initiatives to further key company goals
    • Ensure profitable project budgets. Responsible for overseeing the estimate hand-off process between preconstruction and operations
    • Perform other duties as assigned
    Qualifications & Skills

    Education


    • Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering, or related field. Proven experience may be substituted for a degree.
    Experience


    • 10+ years of preconstruction experience for a highway/heavy civil company
    • Proven track record, strong leadership skills, and experience managing complex projects and estimates more than $100 Million
    • Transformational leader with demonstrated experience
    • Demonstrated experience as an innovator
    • Excellent communicator and an ambassador for the company
    • Has a thorough knowledge of building systems, current market pricing, and practical application of modern quantification and estimating techniques from conceptual and schematic design through final budgets
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
    • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
    • Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
    • Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate
    • Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality
    • Ability to act decisively and effectively in stressful situations with a sense of urgency
    • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
    • Ability to lead, develop and manage staff, and positively motivate others to achieve results
    • Ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization and cross functional departments
    • Demonstrated ability to make decisions based on sound business reasoning
    • Ability to manage changing situations effectively
    We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP) To learn more about Austin, please go to

    Become an owner

    Unlike other companies that may be privately or publicly held, Austin is 100% owned by our employees.

    It's a source of pride for every one of our 7,000+ employee-owners that we have vested interest in the day-to-day success of our company.

    We share Austin's growth and profitability, and are accountable to ourselves for doing everything it takes to serve our customers with excellence and to make Austin the best it can be.

    After all, We Own It. Learn more at

    About Austin Bridge and Road


    A leader in the heavy highway and transportation industry for more than 100 years, Austin Bridge & Road delivers asphalt and concrete services, and builds landmark projects such as complex highway interchanges, tollways, runways, bridges, rail projects, and water/wastewater facilities in Texas.

    Our core capabilities include concrete and asphalt paving / production, heavy civil and earth work.

    Customers rely on our expertise in construction management on conventionally bid and alternatively procured projects, including design-build, construction manager at-risk and construction management/general contracting.

    No agency inquiries please.


    This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy.

    The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).


    Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

    Austin Bridge & Road is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

    See the "Know Your Rights" poster available in English and Spanish.

    See the "Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision" poster available in English and Spanish.

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