Plumbing Estimator- Talon Plumbing
The Plumbing Estimator is responsible for preparing accurate and competitive bids for plumbing projects. This role includes reviewing invitations to bid, performing material and labor take-offs, developing detailed scopes of work, and building/maintaining a structured sales pipeline. The Estimator ensures that bids are accurate, complete, and aligned with company margin and profitability goals.
Success in this role requires a detail-oriented professional who partners closely with operations before bids are submitted to ensure constructability, resource alignment, and profitability. The Estimator also uses ServiceTitan to track pipeline, measure hit rates, and monitor estimate accuracy against actual performance. Our Core Values
We expect all team members to model and promote these values in their daily work:
- Customer Focus – Give the customer a fair deal
- Accountable – Say what we do, do what we say
- Sense of Urgency – Time is of the essence
- Honesty and Integrity – Treat others as you’d like to be treated
Bid Management
- Review invitations to bid, project drawings, and specifications
- Perform detailed material and labor take-offs for plumbing systems
- Develop clear scopes of work, line-item estimates, and proposals
- Solicit and evaluate vendor and subcontractor quotes to ensure competitiveness and compliance
- Collaborate with operations teams prior to bid submission to validate scope, schedule assumptions, and field feasibility
- Ensure proposed solutions align with company resources, labor capacity, and operational capabilities
- Document assumptions, exclusions, and risk factors for handoff to operations
- Build and maintain a disciplined bid pipeline with follow-up on outstanding proposals
- Track success rates and recommend improvements to bidding strategies
- Collaborate with leadership to qualify opportunities and prioritize high-value projects
- Provide clear handoffs of awarded projects, including scope, budgets, and documented assumptions
- Partner with project managers to support value-engineering options and clarifications
- Communicate regularly with suppliers and subcontractors to maintain competitive pricing
- Monitor estimate accuracy by comparing to actual job costs in ServiceTitan
- Refine material pricing, labor factors, and assumptions using job cost feedback
- Participate in weekly reviews and training to strengthen estimating accuracy
- Produce accurate estimates that support margin targets and profitability goals
- Ensure bids reflect true costs of labor, materials, and overhead
- Contribute to the company’s financial health by winning competitive, profitable work
- Eligible for a bonus per awarded project , tying personal performance to company success
- Estimate Accuracy – Measured by variance between estimated and actual costs in ServiceTitan
- Bid Timeliness – Submissions completed on or before deadlines
- Pipeline Management – Healthy backlog of qualified bids with disciplined follow-up
- Operations Partnership – Documented collaboration with operations prior to submission
- Financial Impact – Projects awarded at or above target margins
- Accountability to Core Values – Demonstrated integrity, urgency, customer focus, and follow-through in all estimates
This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions and may be subject to change at any time. It does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
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