Senior Estimator

What We're Looking For At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails providing technical leadership in researching and implementing estimating tools and best practices. Understanding complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge. Demonstrating expert skills in all areas of cost estimating. Accurately projecting the cost of upcoming projects and providing information by developing the cost estimate that builds up the estimated cost of a defined scope of work at any stage of project definition.

Responsible for conceptual, definitive, man-hour, and equipment factored total installed cost estimates. Duties may also include preparing economic cost studies, cash flows, and contingency analyses. May mentor, direct, and oversee the work of earlier career staff.

• Oversees preparation of independent cost estimates for submitted change order proposals.
• Provides cost support during Value Engineering Studies and design charettes.
• Creates complex cost models for cost estimating elements.
• Prepares claims analysis and estimates.
• Perform parametric order‑of‑magnitudes estimating by establishing a project’s probable cost before any graphical representation of a facility has been developed.
• Analyze specifications, sketches, drawings, bills of material or sample layouts and estimate costs for labor, material and equipment using pricing schedules and historical data.
• Develop duration estimates of specific construction activities based on assumed construction approach and appropriate production rates.
• Oversee and provide quality control/assurance for quantity takeoffs and cost estimates on complex projects and check for mathematical and technical accuracy.
• Consult with clients, vendors, and other departments to discuss and formulate quantity take‑offs and cost estimates and resolve issues.
• Work closely with the project supervisor to ensure the project estimate meets all financial and regulatory guidelines.
• Prepare bid estimates for use in reviewing construction contractor bids.
• Provide support and may lead price negotiations.
• Perform related cost estimating and budgeting functions.
• Set up cost monitoring and reporting systems and procedures.
• Prepares cost reports and presents findings to design and client teams.
• Participate in client presentations as required.
• Collaborate with scheduling team to develop production‑based bottom‑up cost estimates and ensure alignment of estimates to construction schedules.
• Develop and maintain Enterprise level estimating policy, processes, procedures, guidelines, and desk manuals for use from project to project.
• Ensure consistency of estimating methods and data use on programs across all projects.
• Provide guidance and oversight of the use of estimating software, including related protocols and standards.
• Accumulate, evaluate, and document historical cost data and construction means and methods to maintain current estimating standards and databases.
• Oversee a database or “warehouse” of estimation data recorded and tracked from each job.
• Support the preparation of procurement documents related to estimating specifications.
• Support costing of Risk Registers and collaborate with Risk team to ensure all risk register items are aligned to projects’ risk profile.
• Work on multiple estimating projects in a project leader capacity as needed or project advisor within functional teams.
• Quality control all estimating deliverables prepared by support staff if…