Estimating Manager

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Michels Canada Full time

**Estimating Manager**
**Full-time, Permanent**
**Vancouver, BC**

**WHO WE ARE**

Celebrating 60 years of People | Projects | Values around the world

Michels is an established energy and infrastructure organization with 25 years in Canada. We support Canada’s prosperous future by constructing safe, reliable infrastructure solutions to serve the public’s energy, water and wastewater, and transportation needs.

We care about doing what is best for our people, our customers, the communities in which we work and our country. We strive to provide our employees with meaningful and challenging work, and an engaging and collaborative environment.

Michels Canada headquarters is based in Nisku, Alberta, Canada.

DESCRIPTION

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain and promote a strong safety culture for all employees, vendors, and customers and follow all safety policies, procedures, and regulations. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions
- Create a collaborative and open communication environment to drive early awareness of problems and creative solutions.
- Mentor and develop team members; provide feedback; support internal and external opportunities to build professional and managerial skills as well as additional certification achievements.
- Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports
- Provide high-quality services and innovative solutions to complex estimating infrastructure civil challenges involving multiple stakeholders.
- Review, analyze and understand economic trends and consider risks and cost implications
- Utilize cost methodologies and tools and appropriate software models and packages to prepare and maintain reliable and accurate estimating data.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring, reporting systems and procedures are in place to meet objectives
- Provide strategic and operational information and reports to share with others and when required
- Engage with stakeholders to ensure all cost ideas are input to prepare complex cost models
- Support supplier meetings and negotiations to challenge quotation prices and aim for cost reductions to meet target costs.
- Mobilize company resources, through liaison with support departments, to create teams capable of completing effective and quality work
- Encourage and exceed MICHELS CORE VALUES- assisting with the implementation of all applicable civil works.
- Participation and active involvement in industry associations, committees, or boards.

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Minimum of 7 years of relevant cost estimating experience in the construction or heavy civil industry, including 3 years of successful leadership and project management experience
- Experience with Microsoft Office, MS Project, and Adobe. Estimating proficiency preferred using HCSS (estimating software)
- Experience in training, mentoring, motivating, leading, and supervising a team of highly qualified professional staff
- Excellent written and oral communications skills

DESIRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS
- Negotiation skills
- Action Oriented
- Interpersonal Savvy
- Problem Solving skills

EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (or related field)

LANGUAGES
- Must be able to communicate verbally and through written language (by hand and digitally) in English.

**BENEFTIS**

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