Senior Estimator

Job Description

Job Objectives:

Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, at all project stages.

Identifying opportunities to improve estimating, cost management procedures, templates, and products.

Knowledge management - Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is inputted into internal/ external client benchmarking databases and shared.

Process improvement - Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes.

Subject matter expertise for new work or variations for existing projects.

Pre-Contract- Planning

Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.

Develop Project Capital Estimates using a bottoms-up approach.

Ability to estimate at conceptual, programming, and detailed level.

Provide expert estimating services for Life science from early idea stage, RFP, and contract negotiation. through to construction completion, managing key relationships with the client, CM, and project team.

Lead the training of templates & tools for the general contractor to ensure submissions are compliant for commercial analysis.

Assist in all aspects of procurement, including managing the pre-qualification stage, produce bid list, bid analysis, produce bid report, and compile contractual documents.

Provide input into value engineering; assist in negotiating and approving final bids.

Maintain liaison with client and other consultants at all projects stages.

Provide leadership to cost management team, when necessary, ensure the delivery on all of accountabilities.

Provide detailed comparative analysis of commercial submittals from the CM.

Lead the commercial review of the competitive bid process for major trades.

Support the project delivery team with post-contract cost analysis & change order reviews.

Benchmarking integration to ensure accurate data capture.

Post-Contract

Assisting in change management activities throughout the project lifecycle throughout a portfolio.

Assisting in Production of monthly post contract cost reports and present to client.

Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost checking, and valuation process.