Estimator
Step into the role of estimator, where you'll play a crucial part in assessing project costs from pre-construction to closeout. Your financial acumen will guide senior leaders in pursuing new projects and analyzing the financial health of ongoing ones. Maintaining acceptable profit margins by accurately predicting costs and managing actual expenditures will be key to your success.
Apply NowAs an estimator you are responsible for assessing the cost of a project from pre-construction all the way through close out. Your financial insights will be considered by senior leaders during the pursuit of new work and financial analysis of existing projects. Consistently being within acceptable profit margins between your predicted costs and actual costs will be paramount.
You understand all the complexities of various construction jobs, disseminate them into line items, and assign costs to those line items. Further more you are able to communicate and justify these line items to junior teams and senior management.
Rockstar candidates are very keen on details. They are alert for any short term and long challenges in the construction market, and what impact it will have on their projects. They are very confident in their ability to express hard costs, soft costs and risk even before a formal pre-con analysis. Strong estimators are able to write solid contracts and manage the bid and tender process. Rockstar applicants regularly build relationships with vendors and suppliers ensuring that they are getting the best deals that the market can provide, including but not limited to checking to make sure the bid variance across contractors is in line with scopes of work, qualifying trades, checking contractual agreements and upholding strong professional relations.
Our candidates will be able to do the following (but not limited to)
- Reviewing scopes of work, plans, specifications, contracts and drawings to conduct take offs and estimates.
- Capable of analyzing drawings with software or by hand to develop take offs and estimates.
- Involvement with feasibility or constructability review as to market rates on vendors, and sub trades, especially during Pre-con.
- Get prices and quotations from trades and vendors on labor, material, equipment, services and overhead and apply reasonable margins.
- Identifying and assessing potential risks and uncertainties that may impact the project's cost.
- Incorporating contingency measures to account for unforeseen events or changes in project scope.
- Review bids and conduct bid variance analysis to ensure that all aspects of scope are captured and there are no extras, or missing scopes in the contract.
- Discuss bid issues with trades and vendors and conduct any follow ups.
- Perform bid variance analysis and adjust estimate as required.
- Work with Project Management team to write contracts.
- Support trade qualification.
- Review and write change orders and change requests should they arise.
- Support management with disputes so that they can be settled amicably.
- Update estimate database with new rates and prices as per market conditions.
- Reviewing and analyzing completed projects to enhance the accuracy of future estimates.
- Staying informed about industry trends, market conditions, and changes in construction methodologies
- Monitor actual costs versus predicted cost and regularly update management team.
- Providing insights for cost control measures.
