Senior Project Estimator; Data Center Preconstruction - Floydada, Texas

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:
Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.

If you are interested in a long and rewarding career working with high-profile clients on some of the most challenging projects in the world, then Decima is where you belong. At Decima, you will be able to explore incredible growth and professional development opportunities.

This role is not intended to be limited to electrical and telecom/fiber estimating. While data centers are highly MEP-driven and electrical, telecom, low voltage, power, cooling, and commissioning scope awareness is important, the successful candidate must be able to evaluate the full project estimate across all major disciplines, identify scope gaps and pricing risks, explain assumptions and variances, and present clear recommendations to internal teams and client stakeholders.

• Review and validate full project budgets and costs across civil/sitework, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, telecom, low voltage, structured cabling, fiber, general conditions, indirect costs, escalation, contingency, allowances, fees, markups, and soft cost interfaces such as design fees, permits, utility costs, owner vendors, commissioning, testing, and project contingency.
• Prepare independent estimates at schematic design, design development, and 100% construction document stages.
• Reconcile independent estimates against GC/CM estimates and identify scope, quantity, pricing, escalation, contingency, assumption, and risk variances.
• Review GMP and lump-sum proposals, including assumptions, qualifications, exclusions, allowances, unit prices, alternates, general conditions, fees, insurance, bonds, and markups.
• Review Schedule of Values submissions for reasonableness, completeness, alignment with scope, and front‑loading risk.
• Evaluate bid packages, subcontractor pricing, vendor quotations, and GC/CM estimate submissions for completeness, competitiveness, and alignment with project scope.
• Identify scope gaps, overlaps, estimate assumptions, pricing risks, long‑lead cost drivers, escalation exposure, contingency needs, and potential budget impacts.
• Support value engineering by developing, reviewing, and tracking accepted and rejected value engineering items against budget, scope, and project objectives.
• Prepare clear Basis of Estimate documentation, including scope basis, pricing sources, assumptions, exclusions, escalation, contingency, allowances, and risk notes.
• Develop estimate summaries, variance reports, reconciliation logs, cost driver analyses, and executive‑level presentations for internal teams and client stakeholders.
• Collaborate with project management, preconstruction, design, procurement, commercial, scheduling, engineering, GC/CM, and client teams to validate estimate inputs and resolve discrepancies.
• Track historical cost data, benchmarks, market trends, and data center cost drivers to improve estimating accuracy and support informed recommendations.
• Support procurement and award recommendations by reviewing proposal completeness, cost reasonableness, scope coverage, commercial terms, and pricing risks.
• Maintain organized estimate records, assumptions, backup, benchmark data, reconciliation files, and methodology documentation for auditability and future reference.

• 12+ years of construction estimating, preconstruction, cost estimating, quantity surveying, or cost advisory
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture, or a related technical field
• Full‑project preconstruction estimating…