Director of Estimating

Ready to build your career? We want to hear from you! As a Director of Estimating at ITC Construction, you will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight of the estimating process, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and quality across all assigned projects. This role involves overseeing estimating activities, supporting project negotiations, planning, and procurement, and ensuring compliance with ITC’s established systems, policies, and procedures.

You will collaborate closely with executive leadership, preconstruction and operations teams, project management, consultants, clients, and trade partners to support informed decision-making and successful project delivery.

• Responsible for the entire Estimating Department and the following estimating processes:
  • Preliminary Concept Budget based on concept design sketches.
  • Progress Budget prepared from time to time during working drawing phase to determine cost implications of various construction methods proposed by clients’ designers and report value engineering recommendations as applicable.
  • Control Budget – Coordinate with Preconstruction Department who are responsible for the Control Budget.
  • Bid or Tendered Budget – The cost estimates resulting from a tendered price based on construction document which will form the basis of a lump sum construction contract.
• The Estimate will be broken down into tasks as determined by the Director of Estimating and assigned to staff as required. Should the workload warrant it, the staff may or may not be limited to the Estimating Department but may also include Preconstruction Department, Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers, Project Coordinators, etc.
• As applicable during the Preconstruction Phase develop integration schedule in accordance with standard ITC Scheduling Procedure and review with the Superintendent to develop the Master Project Schedule.
• Responsible for monitoring and analyzing project costs during the course of construction.
• Receive and review monthly job cost reports. Any items of concern should be relayed to the Project Manager.
• Responsible for design and development of Concept Estimate Models to be used as the initial budget on all projects.
• Responsible for establishing unit cost analysis reports comparing overall unit costs and trade unit costs for completed project.

• Review and adjust Trade Scopes accordingly and include in the tender documents.
• Coordinate reviewing the Construction Contracts before they are signed to ensure that the contract documents match the tender/estimate documents.
• Liaise with Contracts Manager with respect to Prime Contracts and Trade Contracts.
• Liaise with Contracts Manager to ensure proper templates of Letters of Intent and Schedules are being used on Lump Sum Projects.
• Responsible for preparing and/or overseeing the preparation of the Control Budget.
• Contract Negotiation phase including attending meetings as requested by the Vice President Preconstruction or the CEO, preparation of written and telephone communications with the Owner, Architect and Consultants from concept design through to contract signing.
• Preparation or delegation of, of Letters of Intent for Trades on Construction Management Projects as may be assigned by the Vice President Preconstruction.
• Ensure a copy of each Letter of Intent prepared for CM Projects is forwarded to the Contracts Manager as well as the assigned Project Manager if applicable.
• Preparation or delegation of, of Letters of Intent for Trades on Lump Sum Projects as per ITC standard Contract preparation procedure.
• Ensure a copy of each Letter of Intent prepared for Lump Sum Projects is forwarded to the Contracts Manager as well as the assigned Project Manager if…