Senior Estimator

3 days ago

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Bird Construction Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Estimator to join our dynamic Buildings & Commercial team at Bird Construction. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in accurately estimating costs for construction projects, ensuring competitive bids and successful project delivery.

The Senior Estimator will collaborate closely with project managers, engineers, and subcontractors to develop comprehensive and precise estimates for civil and concrete construction projects.

Key Responsibilities
  • Preconstruction
    • Act as a key contributor in the project development activities to secure the project.
    • Develop and execute a project strategy that meets the project's required performance, schedule, and profitability targets. Meet or exceed these targets.
    • Assist bid process by driving and communicating strategies to the project team to help win bids.
    • Provide preconstruction services including the development of preliminary budgets, cost plans, and value engineering exercises.
    • Participate in internal contract kick-off and conduct contract partnering sessions.
    • Lead internal construction project start-up meetings and administrative project setup.
    • Establish Preconstruction in Progress (PIP) form/KPIs and begin monthly updates.
    • Actively participate in project scheduling activities including post-it note scheduling/pull planning.
    • Actively participate in developing procurement plans, labour and equipment forecasts, logistics plans, site workflows, project risk registers, and project execution plans (PEP).
    • Actively participate in developing and maintaining the master project schedule.
    • Ensure that the preconstruction schedule is achieved.
    • Develop Milestone Cost Plans (schematic, design development, working drawings).
    • Participate in design, constructability, and value engineering reviews.
    • Work closely with the project manager, owner, consultants, suppliers, and trades to identify, develop, implement, and support cost-effective project delivery.
    • Prepare and manage project budgets during the design.
    • Ensure that constructability is addressed before sub-trade tendering.
    • Oversee the tendering, risk assessment, and award of sub-trade contracts.
    • Identify, address, and resolve issues and problems as or before they occur.
    • Contribute current cost and productivity information for SAP upload sheet.
  • Construction
    • Keep informed on track and forecast labour, materials, and equipment.
    • Conduct monthly project Work in Progress (WIP) updates and meetings.
    • Assist with the development of project strategy that secures the project. Meets or exceeds the project's required performance and scheduled profitability targets.
  • Post-Construction
    • Conduct lessons learned.
    • Participate in reconciliation of contract value.
    • Participate in project closeout report.
  • Employee and Talent Management
    • Develop the assigned project team members with the help of the division/branch management team, including the acquisition of new talent, continuous positive and constructive feedback, and the assessment of non-performing employees.
    • Mentor those at a more junior level on the team (interns, juniors, etc.).

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