Estimator at Prestige Recruiting Firm
Job Description
Full-time | On-site
About the Company
This well-established landscape construction company in Jacksonville, FL, is recognized for delivering high-quality commercial landscape, irrigation, and hardscape projects throughout the region. We partner with developers, municipalities, and contractors to ensure every project is executed with craftsmanship, precision, and a strong attention to detail. Our workplace culture encourages collaboration, professional excellence, and continuous growth.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a committed and energetic team with a strong reputation in the commercial landscape industry
- Work on a variety of impactful projects involving plantings, irrigation systems, and hardscape installations
- Grow your career with a supportive leadership team and meaningful opportunities
- Competitive benefits including 401k, profit sharing, healthcare, and paid time off
Qualifications
• Possess excellent written and oral skills
• Ability to read plans, specifications, and related documents and analyze information
• Knowledge of Plants, Irrigation, and Hardscape
• Associate or Bachelor Degree in related field preferably a Landscape Architect
• Proficient in AUTOCAD
• Must be a good communicator, persistent, persevering and possess a strong work ethic
• Outgoing, with good people skills, able to network and be personable
• Steady, consistent and dependable behavior
• Self-starter
• Opportunistic thinker with a hunter mentality
• Action and results oriented, a can-do demeanor
• Punctual and energetic
• Maintains high professional standards for neatness, accuracy, discipline, self-control and organization
Preferred Skills
• Proficient with MS Office, Adobe PDF
• Proficient knowledge of AutoCAD
• Knowledge of Large Format Plotting of Construction Plans
• Ability to multitask and problem solve
• Ability to meet strict deadlines
• Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment (Deadlines, fluctuations in workload)
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to function effectively under stringent deadlines and resolve problems under pressure
• Team work
• Time Management
• Organizational skills
Responsibilities
• Gather scope of work, plans, specifications, and related documents to get a complete understanding of project
• Identifies material requirements
• Acquires proposals from subcontractors in required trades
• Resolves discrepancies
• Timely completion of estimates
• Presents prepared estimate by assembling and displaying numerical and descriptive information
• Prepare review and evaluation of cost estimates for CEO approval
• Maintains cost data
• Contributes to team effort
• Prepare quantity takeoffs
• Attend client meetings and project walk-through, visit job sites, and keep a record of all verbal information disseminated by the client
• Present proposals
• Follow-up once proposals are submitted and provide feedback to management
• Close the sale on proposed work
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