Construction Estimator

• Complete detailed quantity takeoffs from architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical drawings
• Review drawings, specifications, schedules, tender documents, and contract requirements to confirm project scope
• Identify scope gaps, inconsistencies, omissions, overlaps, and constructability concerns
• Maintain traceable quantity calculations, measurement summaries, and supporting documentation
• Prepare conceptual, budgetary, and detailed construction estimates
• Develop labour, material, equipment, subcontractor, indirect cost, productivity, and resource calculations
• Prepare estimate summaries, cost breakdown structures, and pricing schedules
• Support bid pricing strategies through cost analysis, benchmarking, and collaboration with operations teams
• Partner with Supply Chain on bidder lists, procurement strategies, and subcontractor and supplier bid packages
• Analyze quote coverage, exclusions, qualifications, commercial terms, and scope alignment
• Level and compare bids, identify pricing gaps or overlaps, and support award recommendations
• Maintain current cost data, historical pricing, productivity benchmarks, and regional market intelligence
• Identify cost, schedule, scope, logistics, market, productivity, and commercial risks and opportunities
• Support risk reviews and recommend contingency and escalation allowances
• Review tender and contract requirements for cost implications, including bonds, insurance, taxes, duties, and commercial terms
• Develop bid assumptions, qualifications, exclusions, pricing schedules, tender submissions, and executive approval materials
• Participate in estimate reviews, pricing presentations, post-bid clarifications, and negotiations
• Maintain an auditable estimate file with source documents, quotations, calculations, approvals, and revision history
• Provide awarded-project handover to delivery teams
• Support estimate reconciliation, lessons learned, change estimates, cost forecasting, and commercial analysis
• Help improve estimating procedures, templates, databases, tools, and standard work practices

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