Job Title: Traveling Estimator - Hotel Renovations/Ground up
Location: Remote
Salary: $110,000-$150,000
Skills: hotel, renovation, hospitality
About the Building Construction Company / The Opportunity:
Join a growing building construction team specializing in hospitality projects throughout the United States. This opportunity offers an experienced Traveling Estimator the chance to support hotel renovations, guestroom upgrades, PIPs, rebrands, public-area improvements, capital projects, and ground-up hospitality construction. You will play a critical role in developing accurate project budgets and competitive proposals while collaborating with owners, architects, subcontractors, vendors, and field leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare detailed estimates for hotel renovation, hospitality, commercial renovation, and ground-up construction projects.
- Review plans, specifications, drawings, scopes of work, and project requirements.
- Perform detailed quantity takeoffs for labor, materials, equipment, and subcontracted work.
- Develop conceptual, schematic, budgetary, and hard-bid estimates.
- Solicit, evaluate, and level competitive bids from subcontractors and vendors.
- Identify scope gaps, exclusions, allowances, risks, and value-engineering opportunities.
- Develop labor and material pricing based on project location and current market conditions.
- Participate in pre-bid meetings, site walks, property assessments, and owner meetings nationwide.
- Prepare bid summaries and final proposal packages, and assist with contract negotiations and project turnover.
- Maintain estimating databases, historical cost information, market pricing, and regional subcontractor relationships.
Must-Have Skills:
- At least 3 years of construction estimating experience preferred.
- Experience estimating hotel renovation, hospitality, commercial renovation, or commercial construction projects.
- Strong understanding of construction means, methods, labor, material, equipment, and subcontractor costs.
- Ability to read and interpret architectural, structural, MEP, and specialty drawings.
- Strong quantity takeoff, cost-estimating, bid leveling, and proposal preparation skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Excel, along with construction estimating software.
- Ability to manage multiple estimates, deadlines, and project requirements simultaneously.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organization, and time-management skills.
- Willingness to travel extensively throughout the United States.
- Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with Bluebeam, Procore, PlanSwift, OST, or similar estimating platforms.
- Background with hotel renovation contractors, hospitality general contractors, design-build firms, or national renovation contractors.
- Experience with hotel PIPs, brand conversions, occupied-hotel renovations, and capital improvement projects.
- Knowledge of public-area, lobby, restaurant, ballroom, amenity, pool, fitness-center, exterior, ADA, and MEP renovations.
- Experience coordinating millwork, casework, flooring, finishes, and FF&E.
- Exposure to ground-up hospitality construction and value-engineering processes.
- Established relationships with regional subcontractors, suppliers, and vendors across multiple markets.