Estimator

**Requisition ID**:266076**

**Requisition Posting End Date**:03/07/2023**

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 customer’s objectives to create a lasting positive impact.

We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; and Mining and Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.

Core to Bechtel are our values-ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants-integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers expect, and how we deliver.

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Prepares general and/or discipline estimates for capital cost and/or services estimates. Develops basic conceptual estimates. Takes a lead role in estimate reviews and presentations. Provides and supports data and cost analysis. Uses, develops and oversees the maintenance of estimating databases. Provides technical and operational supervision to assigned personnel. Executes simultaneous tasks within broadly defined parameters.

**JOB DIMENSIONS**:
**A. Supervision Received**:

- Reports to, and receives technical guidance and operational supervision from designated supervisory personnel.
- During preparation of a project proposal, reports to the assigned Project Estimator on a day-to-day basis.

**B. Supervision Exercised**:

- Provides technical and operational supervision to assigned personnel.
- Provides day-to-day supervision of preparation of a small proposal_._

**C. Contacts**:

- Maintains relationships with project personnel, particularly individual discipline group leaders and engineers.
- May have periodic contacts with Project Manager and project team members. May have continuing contacts with working and supervisory level personnel of other departments.
- Continuing contacts with the vendor community.
- May have periodic contacts with clients and government agencies.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**The following duties are performed with respect to Estimate Execution, the process of conducting an evaluation of services and/or capital cost elements of a project or effort as defined by an agreed-upon scope that will be used to make key management decisions**:

- Drafts estimate plans for small-scale projects (inclusive of estimate budget) through evaluation of scope, contract, desired estimate type/quality and time/resources available.
- Conducts capital cost estimates. Reviews design scope criteria and develops quantities for undefined scope assumptions in coordination with others. Prepares estimate basis and assumption documentation; and/or:

- Conducts services cost estimates. Ensures properly allocation of payroll adds. Creates cost models for fee calculations. Performs analysis on functional input to staffing plan. Prepares estimate basis and assumption documentation; and/or:

- Supports complex/conducts basic conceptual/order of magnitude (OOM) estimates. Develops conceptual quantities to supplement partial lump sum and Design Build design documents when definition is not available. Contributes to basis and assumption documentation.
- Assesses and integrates commercial terms and conditions into estimates under supervision.
- Prepares cost studies, trend estimates, and life cycle cost estimates in specialized areas or in specialized discipline area. May use modified templates. Guides others in area of expertise.
- Reviews basic software generated estimates for completion and technical accuracy ensuing quality and integrity and that applicable lessons learned are incorporated.
- Participates in establishing pricing structures to be applied to quantities for estimates. Establishes format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including segregation of cost according to level of confidence.
- Identifies risk items and assigns risk levels to portions of the project work; identifies measures to mitigate risk.
- Calculates contingency through manual calculations and/or Monte Carlo analysis.
- Evaluates productivity and develops probable construction cost based on crew craft productivity.
- Performs and reviews escalation calculations for estimates of complex jobs.
- Takes a lead role in estimate reviews and presentations. Interfaces with designated management personnel on specific sections of estimate presentations.
- Prepares cost trend estimates in support of project cost trend programs.
- Performs cash flow and working capital assessments. Performs and reviews associated calculations and analysis. Predicts/extrapolates cost curves based on experience of schedul