Estimator- Metals

Job Description

DPR Construction is seeking an Estimator- Metal with at least 3 years of commercial construction experience. Estimators will work on commercial projects within our core markets: healthcare, advanced technology, higher education, life sciences and corporate office. Senior estimators will work closely with GC Teams, architects, engineers, owners, and subcontractors and are required to have the following skills:

• Handling the project from first estimate all the way through contracts being formalized.
• Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete metals cost evaluation and approach to the project.
• Must be aggressive in providing innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials.
• Ability to make reliable predictions as it relates to cost and be comfortable estimating across all aspects of construction.
• Must have experience preparing detailed conceptual metals cost estimates and conceptual cost studies from schematic or feasibility-level documentation.
• Ability to prepare detailed estimates and, as the design evolves, develop variance summaries between estimates and value engineering studies throughout.
• Ability to assemble and present a complete presentation-worthy estimate package that clearly communicates the estimate to any audience type.
• Must be able to collaborate with the entire project team to establish the necessary staffing and project requirements.
• Must have knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost.
• Ability to prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade specific clarifications and comprehensive bid packages for sub-tiers.
• Must have experience with the bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc.
• Work closely with Operations Team (Superintendents, Foreman, Project Managers, Etc) to refine estimate and ensure it is alignment with project approach, schedule, and logistics.
• Make subcontractor award recommendations and the negotiation and finalization of subcontracts with trade partners.
• Must have experience being a member of the team involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers.
• Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team.
• Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key risks that could affect the estimate.
• Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5 years structural steel and/or miscellaneous metals estimating
• Experience with both fabrication and field erection costs
• Ability to read structural, architectural, and shop drawings
• Strong understanding of AISC standards and steel construction practices
• Experience pricing:
• Structural steel
• Stairs
• Railings
• Miscellaneous metals
• Decking
• Joist/girder packages
• Proficient in Bluebeam and Excel
• Ability to prepare bid packages, clarifications, and exclusions
  

Risk Identification And Understanding The Following

• Access
• Crane requirements
• Schedule constraints
• Connections
• Tolerances
  
  

Erection Estimating And Understanding

• Piece count
• Complexity
• Height
• Access
• Welding requirements
• Crane picks
  
  

Collaboration With Operations

• Being able to sit with a superintendent and foreman and gain buy-in.
• Coordination between GC precon teams and SPW
  
  

Preferred Background

• Tekla, SDS2, Advance Steel, or BIM experience
• Experience within a company that has done Fab as well and erection
• Design-build experience
  
  

Anticipated Starting Pay Range

$100,000.00- $140,000.00

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DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

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