Brin Glass Company is searching for a Sales Estimator to join our Contract Glazing team!

What makes Brin unique? Brin Glass Company has experts at every stage of the glass lifecycle, including design, fabrication, distribution, installation, and service. With 5 divisions across the state of Minnesota, Brin provides unique opportunities for collaboration and career development. As a privately held ESOP company, Brin offers incredible benefits and a unique employee-owned culture focused on living our core values every day: We Show Up. We Bring It. We Do It Right. Brin invites you to consider investing your strengths here.

What We Offer:
Health, Dental, Life and Vision Insurance Flex Benefits including Medical Expense and Dependent Care 401(k) with company match Employee Stock Ownership Program an incredible wealth building opportunity! Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off Educational Assistance Career development and advancement opportunities

Job Purpose: This position will work closely with external clients such as Construction Managers, General Contractors, and Architectural Design Teams to establish project costing for contract sales. This individual will build diverse experience in the areas of document review and scope selection, relationship building and client development, building envelope integration and construction sequencing, vendor management, contract procurement and negotiation, document control and other essential functions of the sales process. This candidate will be enabled to grow and play a vital role in the companys success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Develop strong relationships, ensure close collaboration and communication with owners, decision makers, construction managers, architects, engineers, and other external customers critical to a projects success.
Create and maintain positive relationships with subcontractors and vendors; treat them fairly and professionally in all interactions while setting an example for others to do the same.
Discover opportunities through relationship building and networking with clients.
Accurately define work scopes and create material budgets, labor budgets, define lead times, costing allowances and contingencies.
Develop scope of work proposal offers for all phases of project implementation (schematic design through guaranteed maximum price deliveries).
Provide best-in-class client experience: Present meaningful contributions to the design-assistance process, innovative value engineering solutions, comprehensive pre-construction project assistance, concise and articulate collaborative interactions.
Adhere to and promote risk management and safety policies and procedures in order to create partnerships with the Project Managers and Superintendents while ensuring compliance.
Manage the project transition to the Operations Department effectively.
Maintain ongoing support to the Operations Department for contract sales.