Estimator - Shaw Sports Turf
Key Skills for This Role
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What You’ll Do
In this role, you’ll support the estimating process from initial project review through handoff to Operations. You’ll:
Build accurate bids: Assist with cost estimates and complete bid packages, ensuring project details and documentation are accurate.
Interpret construction plans: Review drawings and specifications to identify labor, materials, quantities, and project requirements.
Perform material takeoffs: Quantify materials and help develop proposals that accurately represent the project scope.
Work with suppliers and subcontractors: Gather pricing, confirm material availability, and coordinate information needed for estimates.
Use AutoCAD: Develop conceptual drawings and takeoffs from construction plans and satellite imagery.
Manage project changes: Update bids when drawings, specifications, or project requirements change and help keep stakeholders aligned.
Maintain project documentation: Keep estimates, drawings, and technical information organized and current.
Support quality: Participate in reviews of bid packages to identify potential discrepancies before submission.
Collaborate across the business: Work with Estimators and Territory Managers to strengthen estimating practices and improve accuracy.
What We’re Looking For
Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in construction, engineering, architecture, or a related field preferred.
High School Diploma/GED
Foundational experience in construction estimating, project coordination, takeoffs, or a related construction environment is a plus.
Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and technical specifications.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and AutoCAD.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent organization and attention to detail.
Collaborative mindset and ability to communicate effectively across teams.
Curiosity and a desire to continue learning and growing within estimating.
Why Shaw Sports Turf?
This is an opportunity to apply your technical skills to projects that become highly visible parts of communities and athletic programs. Shaw Sports Turf's work spans everything from local and K-12 facilities to collegiate and professional sports environments, and the brand is focused on innovation, quality, and athlete-centered surface performance.
You'll also be part of an organization with significant technical resources behind its products. Shaw Sports Turf's PEAK Performance Labs focus on Playability, Environment, and Athlete Kinetics, studying surface performance and athlete-turf interaction to help advance how sports surfaces are engineered.
And because Shaw Sports Turf is part of Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway company, candidates get an appealing combination: the energy and specialized focus of the sports industry with the backing of a larger, established organization
#ShawSAL #LI-CL1
Work Shift
8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM
Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma/GED
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and technical specifications.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and AutoCAD.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organization and attention to detail.
- Collaborative mindset and ability to communicate effectively across teams.
- Curiosity and a desire to continue learning and growing within estimating.
- Why Shaw Sports Turf?
- This is an opportunity to apply your technical skills to projects that become highly visible parts of communities and athletic programs. Shaw Sports Turf's work spans everything from local and K-12 facilities to collegiate and professional sports environments, and the brand is focused on innovation, quality, and athlete-centered surface performance.
- You'll also be part of an organization with significant technical resources behind its products. Shaw Sports Turf's PEAK Performance Labs focus on Playability, Environment, and Athlete Kinetics, studying surface performance and athlete-turf interaction to help advance how sports surfaces are engineered.
- And because Shaw Sports Turf is part of Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway company, candidates get an appealing combination: the energy and specialized focus of the sports industry with the backing of a larger, established organization
- #ShawSAL
- Work Shift
- 8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM
- Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in construction, engineering, architecture, or a related field preferred.
- Foundational experience in construction estimating, project coordination, takeoffs, or a related construction environment is a plus.
Responsibilities
- In this role, you’ll support the estimating process from initial project review through handoff to Operations. You’ll:
- Build accurate bids: Assist with cost estimates and complete bid packages, ensuring project details and documentation are accurate.
- Interpret construction plans: Review drawings and specifications to identify labor, materials, quantities, and project requirements.
- Perform material takeoffs: Quantify materials and help develop proposals that accurately represent the project scope.
- Work with suppliers and subcontractors: Gather pricing, confirm material availability, and coordinate information needed for estimates.
- Use AutoCAD: Develop conceptual drawings and takeoffs from construction plans and satellite imagery.
- Manage project changes: Update bids when drawings, specifications, or project requirements change and help keep stakeholders aligned.
- Maintain project documentation: Keep estimates, drawings, and technical information organized and current.
- Support quality: Participate in reviews of bid packages to identify potential discrepancies before submission.
- Collaborate across the business: Work with Estimators and Territory Managers to strengthen estimating practices and improve accuracy.
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in construction, engineering, architecture, or a related field preferred.
- High School Diploma/GED
- Foundational experience in construction estimating, project coordination, takeoffs, or a related construction environment is a plus.
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and technical specifications.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and AutoCAD.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organization and attention to detail.
- Collaborative mindset and ability to communicate effectively across teams.
- Curiosity and a desire to continue learning and growing within estimating.
- This is an opportunity to apply your technical skills to projects that become highly visible parts of communities and athletic programs. Shaw Sports Turf's work spans everything from local and K-12 facilities to collegiate and professional sports environments, and the brand is focused on innovation, quality, and athlete-centered surface performance.
- You'll also be part of an organization with significant technical resources behind its products. Shaw Sports Turf's PEAK Performance Labs focus on Playability, Environment, and Athlete Kinetics, studying surface performance and athlete-turf interaction to help advance how sports surfaces are engineered.
- And because Shaw Sports Turf is part of Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway company, candidates get an appealing combination: the energy and specialized focus of the sports industry with the backing of a larger, established organization
- #ShawSAL
- #LI-CL1
- Work Shift
- 8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM
- Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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