Senior Estimator

Job Description

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Actively supports the Company’s commitment to safety and its “Core Values.”
• Represents the Company at all times with high moral standards while adhering to the Company’s “Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.”
• Discerns take-off elements of the work accurately and assigns them to the appropriate items in the database, makes recommendations about how to change the standard database items to more closely reflect field conditions.
• Solicits subcontract and vendor pricing utilizing uniform corporate structure and evaluates returned bids for completeness.
• Identifies deficiencies in the RFx, Scope of Work (SOW) and drawings and implements strategies to mitigate.
• Understands the need for evaluating and incorporating the team’s clarifications, and drafts / edits clarifications as needed.
• Develops quantity-based estimates from partial or limited data and / or information.
• Develops EPC estimates based on limited information, including generating take-offs from sketches, Plot plans and P&IDs.
• Monitors the scope of the project to ensure that all trades have been coordinated and a complete project is being evaluated..
• Ensures that estimates are generated in a way that allows take-offs and pricing to be traced directly back to a defining document, line item, scope of work as well as applicable bid tabs
• Prepares bridging documents demonstrating an understanding of how historical estimated and actual costs have changed from previous estimates.
• Participate in estimate, proposal and constructability reviews as well as cost and schedule saving enhancement discussions for constructability assessments, e.g., execution plan(s), installation access, manlifts, scaffolding, cranes, etc.
• Organizes the estimate in a manner required to meet the needs of the project.
• Estimates the requirements for craft support labor, staff, tagged equipment, subcontracts. materials, construction equipment, indirect costs and facilities based on analyzing crew sizes for each direct craft as well as consolidated.
• Develops preliminary lifting plans and selects appropriate cranes and other equipment to perform the work.
• Assists the effort to generate an appropriately detailed resource loaded preliminary schedule.
• Understands the principals of project cash flow.
• Develops risk ranging analysis for elements of the project and uses that to assign contingency.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

EEO / M / F / Disability / Vets / Affirmative Action Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, marital status, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristic or category.