Cost Estimator II

HNTB Corporation; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 79,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company where you can make a meaningful impact on infrastructure projects. In this role, you will be responsible for preparing comprehensive cost estimates for complex projects, utilizing your analytical skills to ensure accuracy and efficiency. Collaborating with various teams, you will support price negotiations and assist in managing project budgets. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your engineering or construction management background while contributing to significant community projects. If you are passionate about delivering quality results and have a keen eye for detail, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field or 7 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience with cost estimation and budgeting is essential.

Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed cost estimates and perform quantity takeoffs.
• Collaborate with teams to align cost estimates with construction schedules.
• Review and revise estimates based on project scope changes.

Skills

Cost Estimation

Operational Analysis

Budgeting

Project Management

Contract Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Architecture

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management

7 years relevant experience

Tools

Estimating Software

Job description

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being under general supervision, preparing preliminary cost estimates for more complex projects. Accurately projecting the cost of upcoming projects and providing information by developing the cost estimate that builds up the estimated cost of a defined scope of work at any stage of project definition.

Responsible for conceptual, definitive, man-hour, and equipment factored total installed cost estimates. Duties may also include preparing economic cost studies, cash flows, and contingency analyses.

What You’ll Do:

• Analyzes bid and design documents to perform detailed quantity takeoffs to support labor, equipment, and material cost development.
• Performs detailed cost estimates by means of operational analysis utilizing past work experience and reputable industry publications for productivity assignment and overall cost development. Develops/builds the direct and indirect estimates in estimating software with guidance. Prepares detailed breakdown of components and elements of estimates.
• Revises estimates and reports to management accordingly.
• Provides support in price negotiations. Obtains cost information for materials, equipment, and services.
• Performs related cost estimating and budgeting functions. Performs conceptual estimating.
• Collaborates with scheduling team to develop productivity-based cost estimates and to ensure alignment of estimates to construction schedules.
• Reviews contractual documents and contract modifications to determine scope of work, changes to scope, and cost estimates of scope changes.
• Assists in preparation of independent cost estimates for submitted change order proposals.
• Supports the review of estimates and proposals developed by third parties, including consultants’ estimates and contractors’ proposals.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related degree and 3 years relevant experience, or
• In lieu of education, 7 years relevant experience with the development of cost estimates.

What We Prefer:

• Experience preparing cost estimates on behalf of a general contractor using commercially available estimating software.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Locations:

Blue Ash, OH (Cincinnati), Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH, Indianapolis, IN, Louisville, KY

The approximate pay range for Ohio is $79,356.08 - $124,121.05. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.