Remote Senior Project Controls Estimator

Summary

Join our team as a Project Controls Advisor, leading the effort to consolidate scope and cost for projects ranging from ~$25M to $1B+, ensuring projects follow governance process and assisting with executive approval. This role will develop responses to regulatory and legal data requests, work with cross-functional stakeholders, and perform detailed variance analysis.

Requirements

• Minimum of ten years construction industry experience
• Thorough understanding of civil engineering principles, practices, and tools
• Proficient in computer-assisted design (AutoCAD) and other design, data recording, and analyzation software
• Ability to read, interpret and understand engineering plans and schematics, and soils reports
• Capability to visualize the finished grade production
• Knowledge of Best Management Practices (BMP)
• Thorough understanding of materials, methods, and tools involved in the construction or repair of buildings
• Thorough understanding of safety regulations related to assigned projects
• Ability to identify and solve complex problems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to be both creative and analytical
• Extremely detail-oriented and accurate

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and manage the process for gathering scope and cost for project aggregations at each stage gate from all disciplines
• Analyze cost estimates to verify that they are in-line with historical benchmarks for projects with comparable scope. Investigate rationale and drivers for estimates that are out-of-line with historical costs or expectations with estimators from functional groups
• Manage supporting documentation for stage gate updates and regulatory filings
• Peer review project aggregations. Operate with minimal supervision
• Develop Cost Estimates for new Transmission & Distribution Substations, Rebuild/Expansion of Substations, Major Equipment Replacements, Protection Upgrades/SA3, and new Customer Substations
• Estimate material & labor costs applied estimating standards for direct & indirect costs and prepare estimates into Cost Estimating Tools i.e., SCMT and InEight
• Collaborate among cross functional impacted stakeholders and utilized Engineering, Cost Estimating, Scheduling and Project Management knowledge to review cost estimates and obtained approvals
• Perform detailed variance analysis for cost estimates at various stages of project life cycle. Prepare & updated estimates based on change requests for scope, cost & Schedule
• Complete multiple Peer reviews of Cost Estimates prepared by different Estimating team members to validate accuracy, scope, jurisdictional splits, and cost elements
• Prepare scope take‐off based on Design Specification, Meeting Minutes/Scope of Work, and Electrical & Civil drawings

Benefits

Hybrid-Remote (Tuesday and Wednesday in the office/field)