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Cost Estimator

Springtide
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/30/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/28/2026
At Springtide, a division of IPS (a Berkshire Hathaway company), we listen, understand, and lean into complex challenges to unlock new solutions and realize opportunities with our partners. Distinguished by our agility, creativity, expertise, and owner’s perspective, we deliver faster time-to-market and longer-lasting value, enabling you to do more.

We are seeking a Cost Estimator to join our team in a remote capacity, supporting semiconductor construction projects.

*Travel to the Santa Clara, CA project site is required as needed*

In this role, you will support cost estimating efforts across semiconductor construction projects, working alongside experienced team members to develop accurate estimates and cost plans. This is an excellent opportunity to build your expertise in a collaborative environment while contributing to complex, high-impact projects.

Responsibilities

  • Support the review and analysis of contractor bids to help ensure client value for money.
  • Assist in developing cost estimates and cost plans for key client projects
  • Evaluate cost plans and project scopes to assess and address gaps.
  • Maintain a library of current local rates for use in all estimates.
  • Optimize project costs against budget, including cost reviews, value engineering, and accurate estimates to increase client value.
  • Provide estimating support throughout the design and construction stages of the projects.
  • Assist in building trust and credibility with partners across the business, from 3rd parties to client specialists to contractors and consultants.
  • Support nimble project management and clear decisions through excellent cost documentation and timely communication.

Qualifications & Requirements

  • 3-7 years of cost estimating experience within construction, preferably in semiconductor or advanced manufacturing projects
  • Experience working on cost estimates in a semiconductor construction environment
  • Solid understanding of construction estimating principles, methods and tools
  • Enjoy applying your analytical skills to investigate and interpret technical data.
  • Excellent communicator verbally and in writing.
  • Excel in a collaborative and friendly team environment.
  • Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines.
  • Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun.

IPS will not sponsor employment visas for this position

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually, with video required .

About Us

Springtide Project Services is a full-service technical consultancy providing Architectural, Engineering, Construction, Project and Program Management, and Commissioning services to advanced technology industries, including the semiconductor, mission-critical data center, renewable energy, electric vehicle, and display sectors. We bring deep subject matter expertise as well as proven, reliable execution experience to bear on complex projects. The name Springtide represents our culture and values as an agile organization providing fresh, dynamic, and innovative solutions to help our clients optimize their project outcomes. We are energetic, driven, and curious, and take a sophisticated approach to every client project, enabling a critical scope to be executed; we walk in our clients’ shoes, we listen, we are curious, and we excel in a thriving collaborative culture, proactively leaning into challenges with a solutions mindset. We focus on collaborative engagement, alignment, and optimized execution, enabling our clients to do more and to achieve their business success. Springtide is a division of IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC.

Specialties

Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Program Management, LEAN Project Delivery, Strategic Master Planning, Energy Conservation Management, Project Controls, Program/Project Management, Operations/Logistics Strategy and Planning, EPCM, and augmented resourcing services.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at Springtide without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran, marital, or citizenship status, or any other status protected by law. Springtide is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

Attention Search Firms / Third Party Recruiters: Springtide is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for employment opportunities with Springtide. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Springtide via-email, the Internet or directly to hiring managers at Springtide in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for a specific position will be deemed the sole property of Springtide, and no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by Springtide as a result of the referral or through other means.

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