Tampa, FL
Estimator/Contracts Manager
Contracts Manager / Senior Estimator
Position Description:
The Marine Estimator/Contract Manager manages the analysis of bids and completes estimates for assigned projects, creating detailed cost estimates for ship repair and other marine projects.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a suitable field and a minimum of five (5) years of marine and engineering experience, or an Associate’s Degree with at least 10 years of experience.
- Proficient in Microsoft applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook and Project.
- Basic knowledge of AutoCad is required.
- Able to read and understand ship blue prints.
- Strong communication skills-written and verbal.
- Must be able to communicate with employees of varying education levels and maintain positive employee relations.
- Must be a highly organized person who can monitor numerous projects at once and can prioritize the workloads of reporting employees.
- Effective time management skills are a must.
- 5 Minimum Years of Experience
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but not limited to the following.
- Completes proposals, submittals, estimates and bid summary sheets.
- Identifies and communicates all special requirements on estimates to owners.
- Identifies and communicates all bonding/security requirements to owners and controller. reviews all customer specifications, drawings and technical data.
- Develops detailed itemized listing of required work tasks based on review of bid request.
- Produces labor, material and subcontractor price estimates for all required work.
- Produces craft hours and subcontractor estimates on projects.
- Develops long lead and critical material list as required.
- Prepares estimates for Change Orders on new and existing projects.
- Develops craft labor budgets for planning and scheduling of project work.
- Analyzes subcontractor quotes to determine the best choices for sourcing
- Compares subcontractor to in-house costs in order to make outsourcing decisions.
- Works with Production Managers to develop repair or new-build production plans.
- Conducts turnover meeting for transfer of bid package to Production Managers.
- Analyzes work sequencing and durations to produce the project production schedule.
- Utilizes historical cost data in order to develop accurate bid standards.
- Researches and develops new cost standards for work where no historical data exists.
- Identifies and resolves ambiguities in specifications or bid packages.
- Maintains time and production records.
- Demonstrates teamwork and cooperation with other departments and employees.
- Coordinates projects; Communicates changes and progress; Completes projects on time and budget.
- Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
- Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance.
- Provide leadership to all team members in accordance with company policy and procedures during the project development.
- Monitor and report on activities and provide relevant management information to customers and upper management.