Estimator 1397

Duties

The Senior Business Analyst – Estimating is responsible for organizing, developing, analyzing, and maintaining project controls, financial analyses, and estimating applications. These tools are used to monitor project objectives and prepare management reports that identify variances in execution strategy, offering recommended solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide cost and schedule control throughout the project lifecycle.

• Coordinate and oversee estimating activities with limited supervision.

• Develop comprehensive cost estimates for facilities of varying complexity, including conceptual estimates based on less than 15% design completion.

• Ensure validity of project coding structures and work packages.

• Design or assist in the development of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).

• Identify incomplete design definitions and omissions in engineering documents.

• Generate quantity estimates for all commodities and use parametric estimating techniques for undefined scopes.

• Develop accurate material, labor, and subcontract take-offs; coordinate with Engineering, Procurement, and Construction teams.

• Understand and apply indirect and conceptual estimating principles.

• Oversee development of Discipline Material Take-Offs, pricing, and labor unit calculations.

• Provide detailed explanations of complex estimates to internal and external stakeholders, requiring negotiation skills.

• Support the development and implementation of cost estimating databases using technical and commercial data.

• Perform trend analyses and recommend database alterations to management.

• Prepare Change Order Estimates for Baseline Change Proposals.

• Develop and maintain project-level and control account-level specialty estimating schedules.

• Maintain established estimating systems, procedures, and manuals.

• Occasionally present information and recommendations to management.

Work Hours

• Standard 40-hour work week.

• Schedules may include 5/8s (8 hours/day, 5 days/week), 4/10s (10 hours/day, 4 days/week), or 9/80s (9 hours/day, alternating 5 and 4-day work weeks).

• 30-minute lunch break each workday.

• Occasional overtime may be required at the manager's discretion to meet deliverables.

Required Qualifications

Education:

• Master's degree in Business, Construction Management, Technical, Engineering, or related field plus 2 years of relevant experience.

• OR Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of relevant experience.

• OR Associate's degree plus 8 years of relevant experience.

• OR High school diploma plus 12 years of relevant experience.

Experience & Skills:

• Strong proficiency with personal computers and automated systems for accounting, budgeting, cost management, and estimating.

• Working knowledge of project management principles, cost/schedule control, and operations or construction.

• Estimating specialty experience, including conceptual estimating, technical coordination, field construction techniques, labor and equipment requirements.

• Ability to assess and quantify work condition impacts on costs.

Other Required Qualifications

• Security Clearance: Not required (Uncleared).