Job Description Job Description
Role Summary:
An Estimator for our small, specialized pressure and line grouting firm manages high-stakes bids for civil infrastructure, oil and gas pipelines, and underground utility assets. Operating within a lean team, this highly technical professional analyzes blueprint drawing sets, calculates specialized mix designs, and prices complex long-distance grout injections and annular space void filling to ensure high-margin profitability.
Core Responsibilities
- Plan & Spec Analysis: Review multi-layered heavy civil blueprints, utility conflict maps, and pipeline alignment profiles to identify exact depth, location, and soil constraints.
- Precision Volume Takeoffs: Calculate precise annular space volumes, linear foot metrics, and anticipated grout volumes needed to seal carrier pipes inside casing pipes.
- Long-Distance Injection Calculations: Compute material behavior, pump friction loss, and maximum allowable injection pressure thresholds tailored to specific pipe material strengths.
- Specialized Procurement: Solicit and evaluate highly competitive quotes for custom grout formulations, chemical additives and polyurethane.
- Risk & Flow Management: Factor in site-specific risks such as unpredictable ground-water tables, soil anomalies, and the material staging required for continuous, long-distance pumping operations.
- Lean Team Hand-off: Partner directly with the Project Coordinator and field crew leaders to convert won bids into accurate field budgets and highly efficient execution plans.
Key Qualifications
- Field & Industry Experience: Minimum 3-5+ years of hands-on field experience (e.g., Grouting Foreman, Pump Operator, or Field Engineer) combined with estimating experience in pressure grouting, cellular grouting, or utility rehabilitation. Extensive field experience is highly valued and accepted over formal engineering degrees.
- Technical Blueprint Literacy: Mastery in reading, interpreting, and performing digital takeoffs from heavy civil, structural, and underground utility prints (including cross-sections and profiles).
- Technical Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of mix design fluid weights, setting characteristics of chemical/cementitious grouts, bulkheads distance planning, and pipeline integrity.
- Software Skills: Advanced proficiency with digital takeoff software (such as Bluebeam Revu) and Microsoft Excel for building advanced, customized budgeting formulas.
- Proactive Communication: Ability to translate practical field knowledge into clear, highly detailed technical proposals for municipal authorities, utility companies, and tier-one general contractors.
Compensation & Benefits Structure
- Base Salary: $65,000 - $80,000 / year (Starting pay within this range is directly tied to your hands-on field experience and blueprint reading literacy).
- Stable Earnings vs. Field Volatility: Paid as a guaranteed, year-round exempt salary. Protect your income from seasonal rainouts, winter shutdowns, or unexpected project delays that slash hourly field paychecks.
- Company Profitability Incentive: Eligible for a structured bonus program tied directly to overall company profitability. Payouts are distributed both quarterly and yearly, allowing you to share in the immediate and long-term financial success of our lean team.
- Quality of Life: Stable, 40-hour office schedule. Trade the extreme outdoor elements, brutal summer heat, mud, and physical wear-and-tear for a sustainable, indoor career path.
