Indirect Estimator
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Extraordinary teams building inspiring projects: Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. In this role, you will provide technical guidance to promote consistency across projects, customers, and business lines. You will provide detailed review and support to capital cost estimates, cash flow, working capital assessments, and to the preparation of estimate documentation. Your recommendations ensure accurate cost estimations and will be essential in driving project profitability and success. This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership. Major Responsibilities:
- Direct Disciplines & Distribution
- Performs quantity takeoffs for a discipline or commodity specialty using defined documents.
- Reviews design scope criteria and develops quantities for undefined scope assumptions in coordination with other stakeholders/departments.
- Participates in establishing pricing structures to be applied to quantities for estimates.
- Conducts detail pricing for non-manual labor service using functional staffing and other direct cost (ODC) inputs.
- Supports the development of project-specific tools and templates to gather appropriate quantity and labor/ODC information.
- Prepares estimate basis and assumption documentation for their area of responsibility in support of overall estimate development.
- Provides assistance to complex order of magnitude (OOM) estimates.
- Prepares cost studies, trend estimates, and life cycle cost estimates in area of specialization.
- Provides support to estimate reviews and presentations.
- Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in delivering large-scale infrastructure projects. Experiences typically include major infrastructure projects in the renewables, heavy civil, or defence infrastructure fields.
- Demonstrated experience in infrastructure project execution processes, procedures and implementation of industry best practices and lessons learned.
- Proficient in estimating applications used for discipline estimates and basic knowledge of general estimating systems currently being used by Bechtel (Microsoft Suite of Tools, Expert Estimator, HCSS, etc.).
- Previous estimating or project controls experience will be highly regarded.
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