Estimating Professional Career Level

Job Title: Estimating Professional Career Level

Duration: 6 months | Possibility of Conversion based on Business Requirements

Worksite: Remote | Monday - Friday | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Note: The role is expected to require 20 to 40 hours per week, depending on client demands and deliverable requirements.

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Planning Cost Estimator to serve as a technical subject matter expert supporting planning and programming projects nationwide. The role is expected to require 20 to 40 hours per week, depending on client demands and deliverable requirements.

The ideal candidate is comfortable developing estimates throughout the project lifecycle, from conceptual planning and programming studies through progressively defined project scopes. Success in this role depends on the ability to develop reliable cost estimates with limited information using benchmarking, parametric tools, professional judgment, and stakeholder engagement, while adapting estimates as project definition advances.

The selected candidate will work alongside facility planners, architects, engineers, economists, military planners, and client stakeholders to develop defensible planning-level cost estimates and comparative cost analyses. The estimator will participate in work sessions and planning workshops as the project's cost estimating expert, providing technical input regarding costs, assumptions, risks, and estimating methodologies.

Responsibilities:

Typical assignments may include:

• Developing cost estimates for new construction, modernization, renovation, adaptive reuse, and alternative delivery approaches, including tensile, modular, and pre-engineered structures.
• Supporting mission beddown and mission relocation studies.
• Evaluating renovation versus replacement alternatives.
• Supporting planning and programming deliverables, including DD Form 1391 documentation, Planning Charrette Reports (PCRs), economic analyses, and other federal project documentation.
• Conducting benchmarking and parametric analyses to support planning recommendations.

The Planning Cost Estimator serves as a key technical contributor within multidisciplinary planning teams and provides cost estimating expertise during facility planning, programming, and capital investment planning efforts.

• Develop and document AACE Class 4 and Class 5 cost estimates, and other order-of-magnitude estimates using conceptual scope definitions and limited project information.
• Prepare comparative estimates for multiple development scenarios and alternatives.
• Evaluate renovation versus replacement options using planning-level cost methodologies.
• Document estimate assumptions, methodologies, risks, exclusions, escalation considerations, and confidence levels.
• Participate in client workshops, planning charrettes, stakeholder meetings, and project work sessions as the cost estimating subject matter expert, effectively communicating technical cost estimating information in collaborative planning environments.
• Develop estimates using MII methodologies and databases consistent with Department of Defense and federal planning/programming requirements.
• Support estimate development through review, revision, and final documentation.
• Apply professional judgment to develop planning-level quantities, unit costs, allowances, and contingencies when project definition is limited or evolving.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Facilities Planning, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in cost estimating, facility planning, architecture, engineering, construction management, capital planning, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience developing…