Project Estimator Job Description
Project Estimator Duties & Responsibilities
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Project Estimator Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Project Estimator
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, AACE, CCP, CEP, EVP, PSP, CCT, SP, PMI, CCM
Education for Project Estimator
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Employers hiring for the project estimator job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Construction, Education, Technical, Civil Engineering, Project Management, Management, Business, Design
Skills for Project Estimator
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Project Estimator Examples
Project Estimator Job Description
- Prepares prices and price proposals for new customers, working from drawings, established price lists, and related information supplied either directly or indirectly by the customer
- Reviews accuracy of cost information prior to customer communication
- Responsible for all status inquiries and order entry into operating system
- Assists sales team by providing appropriate data to develop and implement territorial sales plan
- Works closely with Sales/Marketing personnel to establish and maintain good customer relations
- Refers requests for price/delivery negotiations to Customer Service Manager
- Supports the company sales efforts through active participation
- Must manage continual flow of information on a regular basis
- Must demonstrate relatively high levels of analytical ability and problem solving skills within defined policies and specific professional principles
- Maintain high level of professionalism and maturity during frequent communications with customers and inside personnel
- Familiarity with the construction trades, codes and standards
- Driver's license and the ability to do some overnight travel
- Ability to facilitate project meetings with all stakeholders in office or field environment to develop a project estimate
- Strong understanding of applicable standards, methods, processes and practices, business fundamentals, and performance metrics in the electric and gas, distribution, transmission, and substation areas
- Advanced analytical skills for project evaluation including analysis of projects with economic, financial, risk and decision analysis
- Customer driven with excellent oral and written communications skills and general analytical, problem solving and project management skills
Project Estimator Job Description
- Ensure that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile
- Follow approved estimating practices consistent with corporate guidelines
- Utilizes appropriate software programs to calculate, record and track estimates
- Review plans and architectural drawings
- Provides internal clients with documents regarding the applicable work scope / quantity information(internal electrical quantities for process units)
- Prepares cost estimates of a well defined part or scope of a project
- Ensures the feedback experience and data collected from past and current projects are updated in the cost estimating database
- Provides internal clients with studies and/or presentations regarding the applicable work scope (time sheet verification study)
- Provide accurate, timely estimates for all complex electric transmission, substation, and distribution construction projects
- Review and develop construction cost budget by reviewing plans
- Ability to analyze organizational data and problems, interpret and recommend alternative courses of action, and implement intervention strategies to attain performance targets
- Six Sigma Plus experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant Science Based/Project Controls/Estimating related Subject Matter
- Self-driven and motivated individual who eventually will need little direction in driving their responsibilities to completion
- Ability to work under pressure with a variety of team members
- Ability to work 40+ hours per week with up to 50% travel throughout the United States
Project Estimator Job Description
- Identify and quantify cost factors, such as project build out, materials, and labor expenses
- Provide support to Project Manager during general contractor and architect sourcing, while also participating in both the general contractor and architect interviews bid leveling process
- Enhance overall estimate delivery by increasing efficiency and improving processes
- Support in developing and maintaining project unit pricing, labor rate, & historical cost benchmark for various project types
- Interface with Daikin Business Development Team regarding project requirements
- Review final estimate packages with supervisory personnel prior to formal quotation to insure accuracy and completeness
- Create Professional, high grade sales proposals from RFP/RFI from clients for Daikin Applied
- Assist in sales strategy of quoted equipment
- Accumulate, evaluate and document historical cost data for the development of future estimates
- Keep current on new products by attending technical and sales trainings
- Ability to read and understand contract and construction documents
- Candidate shall possess the following
- Strong understanding of glass, composite metal panels, and other infill options their applications
- Will follow projects from inception to completion to oversee quality, accuracy and cost effectiveness
- Previous work on cost estimating with major project work (high rises, universities)
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, preferably in Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical or Plastics
Project Estimator Job Description
- Develops preliminary design basis and scope of work
- Physical Requirements – The position requires physical activity such as field data collection, which may require eight hours on foot if necessary
- Responsible for estimating scope of work, deliverables, schedule of execution, estimate structure, formats, reports
- Calculate direct and indirect costs, cash expenditures and monitor escalation over the project duration
- If required by the relevant Business Stream, lead the bid process to ensure that tender deliverables are produced in a timely and effective manner
- Attend or carry out periodic Tender Health Checks and formal risk reviews to ensure that the identified risks are mitigated as far as possible in tender submissions
- Provide mentoring on bids to less experienced Estimators and the bid teams, if required
- Previous experience of managing/implementing all aspects of the estimating process for projects, within the construction industry is required, along with a valid CSCS card, where applicable
- Membership of a relevant professional body and/or a relevant professional qualification is desirable, such as RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE
- A good working knowledge of pricing and quantification methods
- Practical working knowledge of injection molding and extrusion processes, technologies and product applications, preferred
- Prior experience in customer relations/sales, preferably in a manufacturing environment is preferred
- Demonstrated efficiency in mechanical drawing and blueprint reading
- Effective communication with both internal and external customers of all levels
- Proficient in Order Entry / Database Systems and Microsoft Office Suite products, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to manage continual flow of information on a regular basis
Project Estimator Job Description
- Proficiency in IT, numeracy and MS Office Basic & Estimating Systems
- Support the project development effort by developing estimates based on the team approved project scope and assist project sponsors with developing initial estimates to review alternatives for scope selection
- Travel to jobsites to assess and evaluate labor required, special equipment needed, site conditions and other factors to be considered in preparing estimates
- Collaborate with project team members, including engineers, project managers, construction teams, supply chain personnel, vendors and contractors to refine estimates at all project stage gates to achieve estimate classes documented in the Transmission PM Procedure
- Maintain currency of technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing technical publications, and networking with estimators in other business units
- Develop and update cost calculation of tendering projects or other assigned projects, including Consolidated Cost Sheet (CCS), Currency Split, Cash Flow, Cost Solidity, Balanced Scorecard , based on specific Division of Work or Scope of Work, specific or reference Tender Time Schedule (Project Schedule), Tax Advice, Forward Rates, BoQ or Equipment Lists
- Prepare cost analysis, cost comparisons
- Act as point of contact to other departments for costing in terms of finance, tax, insurance, foreign currency exchange, labor rates, equipment costs during the proposal process
- Ensure the costs are consistent with the scope of supply
- Ensure the integrity (accuracy and completeness) and competitiveness of the costs in accordance to the full cost model
- Ability to maintain high level of professionalism while communicating with customers and inside personnel
- 10 years is project management or engineering with at least 5 years in project estimating
- Must be physically capable of confined space entry in chemical process vessels
- Able to climb scaffold and platforms
- To read and use P&IDs, PFDs, plot plans and engineering documentations so as to develop project cost estimate
- Capability in analyzing the various input cost data and appropriately normalize and include in the cost estimate