Senior Project Cost Estimator
Senior Project Cost Estimator
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Job Description
- Plans supervises and participates in the preparation of construction cost estimates of buildings or other structures from drawings outlines and specifications
- Prepares and reviews cost estimates and forms and other materials submitted to secure State and/or federal grants and loans from school aid programs and represents the District on matters pertinent to securing such funds
- Checks construction cost estimates submitted by commissioned architects and engineers for accuracy and completeness and compares them with District estimates
- Confers with commissioned architects and engineers to resolve differences in their cost estimates and District estimates for each project and negotiates agreements on preliminary estimates of construction costs
- Makes studies and prepares reports when contractors bids vary widely from the agreed construction cost estimate
- Checks segregations of contract costs as estimated by building contractors and recommends acceptance or rejection as a basis for progress payments
- Analyzes change orders on construction work under contract and approves or rejects extras or credits submitted
- Establishes and maintains procedures for approval of plans and specifications for building projects and submission of approved projects to public bidding
- Develops methods for maintaining data used in records charts and graphs reflecting estimated construction costs compared with actual costs
- Conducts and participates in seminars and workshops with staff and minority contractors relative to school construction bidding procedures contracts and cost estimating
- Estimates costs of damages to District property caused by fire natural disaster and major acts of vandalism
- Establishes budgets for school building projects
- Prepares preliminary and final independent cost estimates of projects for comparison with designer or contractor for PM/CM to establish negotiating position
- Prepares change order estimates for Owner Authorized Representatives to establish negotiating position
- Provides support in price negotiations
- Reviews contractors claims and proposals for merit and accountability
Required Experience/Skills:
- 10 years full-time paid professional experience in the preparation of complete cost estimates for type I II or III and V building construction as defined by the State building code including two years in a supervisory capacity
- Bachelors degree in Architecture Engineering or Construction Management
- Knowledge of current local construction labor and material costs
- Extensive experience in developing and estimating the scope of work for change orders
- Ability to compare the independent cost estimate with contractor proposal to quickly identify differences
- Ability to develop scope of work based on RFI/RFC answers and estimate the detailed costs of those scopes of work independent of the contractor proposal
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Contract
