Senior Estimator

Matrix Service•Tucson, AZ

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Estimator will actively support the Company’s commitment to safety and its “Core Values,” representing the Company at all times with high moral standards while adhering to the Company’s “Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.” This role involves discerning take-off elements of the work accurately, assigning them to appropriate database items, and making recommendations for database adjustments. The Senior Estimator will solicit and evaluate subcontract and vendor pricing, identify and mitigate deficiencies in RFx, Scope of Work (SOW), and drawings, and understand the need for incorporating team clarifications while drafting/editing them as needed. The position requires developing quantity-based estimates from limited data, EPC estimates from sketches, Plot plans, and P&IDs, and ensuring all trades are coordinated for a complete project evaluation. Estimates must be traceable to defining documents. The Senior Estimator will prepare bridging documents, participate in reviews (estimate, proposal, constructability), and discussions for cost and schedule savings. Responsibilities include organizing estimates, estimating craft support labor, staff, equipment, subcontracts, materials, construction equipment, indirect costs, and facilities. The role also involves developing preliminary lifting plans, selecting appropriate equipment, assisting in generating resource-loaded preliminary schedules, understanding project cash flow, and performing risk ranging analysis for contingency assignment. Other duties as required or assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Engineering or related field, or equivalent combination of education/experience in lieu of degree.
7+ years of field and/or office experience including a minimum of 4 years’ experience as an Estimator, Field Engineer or other related support role involved with estimating or cost monitoring.
Familiar with construction work and terminology.
Thorough attention to detail.
Ability to quickly visualize the finished product from the RFx, deliverables, SOW, drawings and other documents provided.
Ability to prioritize and work on multiple projects and capable of working independently.
Good basic mathematical comprehension.
Good oral, written and interpersonal communication skills; ability to make clear and concise presentations to management.
Strong understanding of the operating process at the facilities being estimated such as refineries, terminals, power plants, mining or other heavy industrial facilities.
Solid technical skills with an understanding of the various classifications of estimates and the purpose that they are intended for.
Self-motivated enthusiastic team player willing to work/mentor with others and adopt new ideas and methods.
Good computer skills including an operating knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
Ability to attend Bid Walks, collecting all pertinent information and data in order to organize, kick off and monitor proposal and estimate development through submittal.
This position may require occasional travel and extended workdays.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Sage estimating, project scheduling software (MS Project or Primavera) and databases will be an advantage.

Responsibilities

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.