Cost Estimator

Freese and Nichols; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Freese and Nichols is seeking an Estimator to join our Program Management team in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, or Pearland, Texas. You will support project teams with cost estimating across multiple projects and stages of the project lifecycle, helping develop reliable budgets, detailed estimates, and cost analyses for infrastructure programs.

You will assist with estimating all cost elements, coordinate with PMs, and use industry databases and software to develop completed estimates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction, or related field.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, specifications, RFPs, and contracts.
• Ability to assist with estimates using appropriate methods and industry data.

Responsibilities

• Assist with estimating all project cost elements including labor, materials, equipment, and contingencies.
• Support multiple projects and teams across project phases from inception to close-out.
• Use cost databases, software, and standards to develop detailed estimates.
• Assist Lead Estimator in developing standard estimating processes.
• Coordinate with construction management resources to complete estimates.
• Prepare estimates for conceptual through construction documents phases.

Skills

Cost estimating

Cross-team communication

Reading drawings

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction, or related field

Tools

Cost estimating software

Microsoft Project

Primavera

Job description

Freese and Nichols is seeking an Estimator to join our Program Management team in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, or Pearland, Texas. As Estimator, you will support project teams with cost estimating across multiple projects and stages of the project lifecycle, helping develop reliable budgets, detailed estimates, and cost analyses for a variety of infrastructure programs.

What You’ll Do

• Assist with estimating all elements of project cost including labor, materials, permanent equipment, supplies, consumables, expenses, construction equipment rental and operating costs, contingency, escalation, and program risk
• Support multiple projects and project teams at the same time across various project phases from inception through close-out
• Use industry resources such as cost databases, software systems, and standards to develop completed estimates
• Assist Lead Estimator with developing standard cost estimating processes companywide
• Coordinate with construction management support resources across the company to complete estimates
• Work with Project Managers and other disciplines to evaluate budget appropriateness and prepare or coordinate full project estimates
• Assist with estimates for conceptual, schematic design, design development, and construction documents phases
• Prepare detailed cost estimates, material, equipment, and labor take-offs, and cost comparison analyses using accepted industry methods

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction, or a related field, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, specifications, Requests for Proposals, and contracts
• Ability to assist with order-of-magnitude, preliminary, definitive, change order, and check estimates using appropriate methods and techniques
• Ability to use company and industry historical data to support cost estimates
• Ability to maintain consistent communication with other estimators

Preferred

• Experience in mechanical and electrical estimating
• Knowledge of various cost estimating softwarei>
• Knowledge of Microsoft Project
• Knowledge of Primavera
• Ability to support cost database maintenance
• Ability to contribute across estimating disciplines including facilities, transportation, water/wastewater, heavy civil, and structural

About Freese And Nichols

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at Benefits That Work for You), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Join our team of 1,300+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at Working at Freese and Nichols.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.