Job Details

As a Senior Rainscreen Cladding Estimator, you’ll be a key contributor to securing high-profile exterior façade work, enhancing the company’s competitive position in the construction market while helping shape project success from pre-construction through delivery.

• Prepare detailed and accurate cost estimates for rainscreen cladding systems, including exterior cladding panels, sub-framing, fasteners, accessories, and related building envelope components.

• Analyze architectural and specification documents, drawings, and tender packages to develop comprehensive quantity take-offs and cost breakdowns.

• Collaborate with suppliers, manufacturers, and subcontractors to obtain competitive pricing and technical input for materials and labor.

• Work closely with pre-construction, design, and operations teams to ensure constructability, sequencing, scheduling, and logistics considerations are reflected in estimates.

• Identify and quantify risks, assumptions, exclusions, and scope gaps to ensure commercially sound proposals.

• Prepare and organize formal bid proposals, including cost summaries, clarifications, value engineering options, and support documentation.

• Maintain estimating databases, unit pricing libraries, and historical cost information for rainscreen and façade systems.

• Participate in bid strategy discussions, attend pre-bid meetings, and respond to RFI clarifications as required.

• Mentor and support more junior estimators and contribute to continuous improvement of estimating practices and workflows.

• Experience: Minimum 5+ years estimating experience, with a strong focus on rainscreen cladding, façade systems, and building envelope packages(or closely related exterior systems).

• Proficient in reading and quantifying architectural and structural drawings, specifications, and contract documents.

• Skilled in material take-offs, cost buildup, and preparation of detailed proposals.

• Strong industry relationships with suppliers, fabricators, and subcontractors for façade and rainscreen products.

• Excellent analytical, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills.

• Comfortable managing multiple concurrent bids with tight deadlines and presenting cost recommendations to leadership.

• Proficiency with estimating software (e.g., On-Screen Takeoff, PlanSwift, Excel) and construction project documentation tools.
  
   

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Experience estimating a variety of façade materials such as aluminum composite panels, metal panels, terracotta, high-pressure laminate, rainscreen support systems, and air/vapor barriers.

• Knowledge of local market conditions in the Mid-Atlantic and commercial construction trends.

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to contribute to bid/no-bid decisions and value engineering proposals.