Pipeline Construction Estimator

Job Description

• Prepare detailed estimates for pipeline construction projects from initial bid review through final estimate and proposal submission.
• Review plans, specifications, alignment sheets, bid schedules, scopes of work, contract documents, and other bid information.
• Perform and verify quantity takeoffs for pipeline construction activities.
• Develop labor, equipment, material, subcontractor, and indirect cost estimates.
• Develop estimates using appropriate crew compositions and anticipated production rates.
• Understand the relationship between crew size, equipment requirements, production, schedule duration, and overall project cost.
• Develop unit costs based on expected field productivity and project-specific conditions.
• Utilize historical project performance and production information when developing estimates.
• Identify unusual project conditions, risks, constraints, and opportunities that may affect project cost or schedule.

Candidates must have practical knowledge of pipeline-specific production and progress rates, including the ability to develop or evaluate expected production for activities such as:

• Clearing
• Grading
• Stringing
• Bending
• Tie-in welding
• Coating
• Ditching
• Road, utility, wetland and water body crossings
• Hydrostatic testing
• Cleanup and restoration

• Identify potential RFIs and submit questions through the appropriate pre-bid process.
• Identify contractual requirements that may affect cost, schedule, productivity, or risk.
• Identify project-specific risks including access restrictions, environmental requirements, permitting constraints, work-hour restrictions, difficult terrain, weather exposure, testing requirements, owner requirements, and schedule constraints.

• Incorporate terrain, access, congestion, environmental restrictions, crossings, existing utilities, and other field conditions into the estimate.
• Compare estimated production and costs against actual project performance when historical information is available.
• Support Project Management and Operations during project turnover by clearly communicating the assumptions used to develop the estimate.

• Minimum 3–5 years of pipeline construction estimating experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of pipeline construction means, methods, equipment, crews, and production rates.
• Ability to independently develop estimates for pipeline construction activities.
• Ability to calculate and verify circumferential pipeline weld quantities.
• Working knowledge of pipeline welding production rates, including mainline and tie-in welding.
• Working knowledge of pipeline construction equipment and realistic equipment-specific production rates and understand appropriate equipment requirements for different terrains.
• Ability to develop appropriate crew compositions and equipment spreads for pipeline construction activities.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, alignment sheets, specifications, scopes of work, bid schedules, and contract documents.
• Experience performing construction quantity takeoffs.
• Experience developing labor, equipment, material, subcontractor, and indirect project costs.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate effectively with estimators, field personnel, Project Managers, Superintendents, subcontractors, vendors, clients, and company management.
• Valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record.

• Prior pipeline field construction experience in addition to estimating experience.
• Experience estimating both mainline pipeline construction and associated facility/tie-in work.
• Experience with large-diameter pipeline construction.
• Experience with estimating software and construction cost databases.
• Experience with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Experience analyzing historical job-cost and productivity information.
• Experience participating in estimate-versus-actual project reviews.

• Pipeline construction knowledge:
  Understands how pipeline projects are actually constructed and how individual operations interact within the overall construction spread.
• Production-rate knowledge:
  Can develop realistic production assumptions rather than relying solely on standardized estimating tables.
• Welding knowledge:
  Understands pipeline welding quantities, crew requirements,…