Civil Construction Estimator

Civil Construction Estimator

Fort St. John, BC | $100,000 - $140,000 | Full-Time, Year-Round | In Office

The Role

We’re hiring an experienced Civil Estimator who can take an estimate from the initial drawings and tender documents through to a complete bid submission.

You’ll work across civil, commercial, infrastructure, and light industrial projects, typically valued at $0.5M to $20M.

The company is a family-owned general contractor based in Fort St. John, serving Northern BC since 1999 across civil, commercial, industrial, concrete, and infrastructure construction.

Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Estimating: Manage estimates from initial tender review through final bid submission.
• Quantity Takeoffs & Costing: Complete detailed takeoffs and pricing for labour, equipment, materials, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Estimate Preparation: Prepare lump-sum, unit-rate, cost-plus, conceptual, and design-build estimates.
• Drawings & Specifications: Review drawings, specifications, and tender documents to confirm scope, identify gaps, and understand project requirements.
• Subcontractor & Supplier Pricing: Solicit, review, and incorporate subcontractor and supplier quotations.
• Construction Planning: Work with Operations to determine sequencing, crew sizes, productivity, equipment requirements, schedules, and site constraints.
• Risk & Contract Review: Identify estimating, contractual, construction, and site risks and account for them in the bid.
• Bid Submission: Prepare tender forms, proposal documents, bid deposits, bonding and insurance requirements, schedules, and other submission documents.
• Scheduling: Develop preliminary and critical-path schedules, milestone dates, and completion timelines for larger bids.
• Site Review: Attend site visits and pre-tender meetings to identify site constraints and project challenges.
• Estimating Data: Maintain and improve unit rates, historical costing, productivity information, and estimating tools.
• Estimate Review: Compare completed project costs against estimates and use the results to improve future estimating accuracy.
• Project Handover: Participate in estimate and project handover meetings with Operations.
• Constructability & Alternatives: Review designs for cost effectiveness and recommend practical alternatives where appropriate.
• Estimating Leadership: Maintain estimating standards, review estimates prepared by others, and support or mentor junior estimators as required.
• Bid Strategy: Participate in bid/no-bid decisions and provide input on strategic pursuit opportunities.
• Relationships: Work with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, Operations, and Business Development throughout the estimating process.

Relevant experience may include:

• Municipal water, sewer, and storm infrastructure
• Underground utilities and site servicing
• Road construction and reconstruction
• Earthworks, excavation, grading, and base preparation
• Paving and parking lots
• Bridges and structural culverts
• Retaining walls
• Landfill construction
• Creek remediation and shoreline protection
• Commercial construction and site development
• Light industrial construction
• Oil & gas-related civil and infrastructure work

Requirements

MANDATORY

• Civil Estimating Experience: Strong experience estimating civil construction projects for a general contractor.
• Full-Cycle Estimating: Able to independently take estimates from tender review through quantity takeoffs, costing, and final bid submission.
• Civil Construction Knowledge: Strong practical understanding of civil construction methods, costs, and how the work is built in the field.
• Tendering: Strong knowledge of bid preparation, pricing, subcontractor procurement, and bid closing procedures.
• Driver’s Licence: Valid driver’s licence and clean driving record.
• Health & Safety: Demonstrated commitment to safe construction practices.
• Deadline Flexibility: Able to work additional hours when required to meet tender deadlines.

PREFERRED

• Experience: Approximately 5+ years of civil construction estimating experience.
• Project Size: Experience estimating multi-million-dollar construction projects.
• Project Diversity: Experience across civil, commercial, infrastructure, or industrial construction rather than one narrow project type.
• Field Experience: Previous field, Foreman, Superintendent, or other hands-on civil construction experience.
• Education: Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Engineering Technology, trade, or related education.
• Software: Experience with SAGE Estimating, Procore, MS Project, and Microsoft Office.
• Contracts: Experie