Chief Estimator

Mace • New York, NY

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About The Position

Mace is hiring a Chief Estimator within its consult business. The role is responsible for developing, reviewing, consolidating, and maintaining estimates and integrated capital budgets for major infrastructure programs. It supports cost decisions throughout project development by analyzing estimate components, reconciling changes, benchmarking costs, assessing options, and communicating forecasts and cost advice to senior stakeholders and clients. The position collaborates with engineering, project controls, commercial, procurement, risk, schedule, finance, and project leadership teams.

Requirements

• Significant experience in cost estimating, cost management, quantity surveying, cost engineering, commercial management, or project controls on major capital projects.
• Strong background developing, reviewing, and reconciling complex construction estimates through successive stages of project development.
• Demonstrated understanding of construction scope, quantities, rates, productivity, indirect costs, escalation, contingency, risk, and market pricing.
• Experience developing or managing integrated capital budgets and Total Project Cost estimates.
• Strong knowledge of estimating methodologies, Basis of Estimate development, cost benchmarking, estimate reconciliation, change management, and cost forecasting.
• Ability to translate detailed estimating information into clear advice for senior management and client decision-makers.

Nice To Haves

• Major transportation, rail, transit, tunneling, heavy civil, or similarly complex infrastructure experience.
• Familiarity with AACE International estimating and cost-engineering practices.
• Relevant professional qualifications such as CCP, CEP, MRICS, PQS, CEC/ECC, PMP, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Develop, assemble, and maintain comprehensive capital budgets and Total Project Cost estimates for major infrastructure programs.
• Develop and review conceptual, ROM, design-stage, pre-tender, and progressively mature cost estimates.
• Review and challenge quantities, unit rates, productivity assumptions, indirect costs, escalation, contingency, allowances, risk, and other estimate components.
• Consolidate estimates from multiple projects, contracts, designers, consultants, and delivery teams into an integrated program-level capital budget.
• Lead estimate reconciliation, identifying movements associated with scope development, design maturity, quantities, pricing, escalation, risk, procurement strategy, and market conditions.
• Develop and maintain cost benchmarks using historical project data, comparable programs, productivity information, market intelligence, and contractor and supplier pricing.
• Perform comparative cost and option analyses to support decisions about scope, design, packaging, procurement, phasing, and delivery strategy.
• Support development and review of Basis of Estimate documentation, cost breakdown structures, assumptions, exclusions, allowances, and estimate methodologies.
• Evaluate the cost implications of design development, scope changes, procurement results, contract changes, and emerging project conditions.
• Maintain traceability between approved budgets, current estimates, commitments, changes, contingency, and forecast outturn cost.
• Prepare executive-level cost reports, reconciliations, variance analyses, trends, and decision-support materials.
• Collaborate with engineering, project controls, commercial, procurement, risk, schedule, finance, and project leadership teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed