Estimator – Heavy Civil Site Development & Utilities

Turner Staffing Group is partnered with a sitework and underground utilities contractor focused on building and maintaining essential infrastructure. Turner Staffing Group’s client is growing quickly and expects significant growth over the next several years. As bid volume increases, they’re looking to bring more consistency, tracking and clean handoffs to the estimating process.

As the company’s first full-time Estimator, you’ll work directly with the owner to carry forward the estimating process he has built and help it keep pace with the company’s growth. You’ll bring dedicated focus to the front end of the work, from the bids the company pursues to the estimates the field and project management teams build from. Over the next two years, the goal is for this role to grow into a Senior or Chief Estimator position.

• →Find and pursue projects to bid on, including new schools, apartment buildings, roads, subdivisions, infrastructure rebuilds and warehouses ranging from $100K to $10M.
• →Create estimates the field and project management teams can trust, hand off cleanly and build from.
• →Bring full civil/site packages together into one usable estimate, including excavation, utilities, grading, paving coordination, subcontractor scopes, alternates and value engineering.
• →Help owners, clients and the project team understand the cost and quantity story behind each bid. This includes reviewing project scopes, completing takeoffs, organizing pricing, labor, equipment and vendor/subcontractor input, and refining calculations with the owner before submission.
• →Strengthen vendor and subcontractor relationships by gathering solid input, comparing scopes clearly and keeping the bid process moving with the right information.
• →Keep estimates grounded in real project conditions by occasionally visiting job sites, attending pre-bid meetings and meeting locally with owners and subcontractors.
• →Help the company make better bid decisions over time by tracking submitted bids, monitoring outcomes and organizing win/loss information.
• →Help make Cloudrig more useful by shaping how the software and its built-in AI features improve consistency, clarity and efficiency.
• →Step further into preconstruction when estimating is caught up, helping with submittals, scheduling, buyouts and other project coordination.

• 5+ years of heavy civil estimating experience in site work, excavation, earthwork, utilities and/or paving.
• Strong working knowledge of takeoffs, plans, drawings, specifications and contracts.
• Comfort estimating moderate to challenging civil/site packages where excavation, utilities, grading, paving, subcontractor scopes, alternates and value engineering all affect the number.
• Reliability with bid dates and deadlines, knowing others build their work around your numbers.
• Enjoyment of takeoff work: the details, comparisons, pricing, checks and clean organization that make an estimate easy to trust.
• Ability to work within an owner-built process while spotting ways to improve tracking, data and handoffs.
• Humility and a willingness to improve processes and learn from misses alongside the owner and team.

• Both private and public estimating experience.
• Experience with ConstructConnect, Cloudrig, Microsoft Office or other estimating software for bids, takeoffs, estimates and relationship-building.
• Hands-on field experience, including operating heavy equipment.

This role is mostly office-based in Ellington, CT, with occasional job site visits, pre-bid meetings and local meetings with owners and subcontractors.

Tools

• New estimating software with built-in AI, including Cloudrig, Phantom Foxit and Insite Elevation Pro.

Perks

• Annual travel perk: two prepaid domestic airline tickets each year.
• Mentorship and unlimited training, both hands-on and digital, including leadership development.
• Personal use of company equipment when it doesn’t interfere with work schedules.

Benefits

• Family-first culture with generous discretionary PTO.
• Health, dental and vision insurance after 3 months, 75% employer-paid for employees and their immediate family.
• 401(k) plan with a 3% company match after 3 months.

Turner Staffing Group’s client is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants based on qualifications and merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.