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Estimator/ Quantity SurveyorArchstone Builders • New York, NY, US
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Estimator/ Quantity Surveyor

Estimator/ Quantity Surveyor

Archstone Builders • New York, NY, US
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Experienced Project Estimator who manages construction budgeting and bidding for a wide range of project types and sizes. Interact daily with subcontractors, client consultants and the project team to ensure a clear understanding of a project's objectives and schedule.

Responsible for value engineering, budget controls, alternative and comparative studies and constructability reviews. Responsible to ensure that estimates, bids and GMP's are complete, accurate, and well supported by recent pricing data and subcontractor input.

Working as part of the Estimating team and capable of managing projects independently.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Project Preconstruction and Construction Teams in estimating functions throughout preconstruction and construction phases.
  • Coordinate trade partner bid lists with procurement for budget pricing and bidding.
  • Lead review meetings with owner, architect, and project consultants.
  • Prepare comparison analysis to previous estimates and develop clear and concise messages to explain variances for each project stakeholder.
  • Manage distribution of current design documents for trade partner budgeting and bidding; ensure account for sufficient trade partner input.
  • Review design documents for completion; assemble comments and requests for additional information needed to provide complete estimates.
  • Visit project sites to evaluate existing conditions, identify and capture scope not included in design documents.
  • Support Project Manager in set-up of estimate, estimate schedule, and responsibility matrix.
  • Perform quantity take-off, analysis, estimate, and studies for assigned trades and building systems.
  • Provide pricing for value engineering, alternates, options, and special studies.
  • Utilize Building Information Models (BIM) for quantity take-off and visualization to support complete estimate preparation.
  • Prepare trade partner bid proposal forms and bid recording sheets for assigned trades, evaluate trade partner input for scope inclusion, and identify scope gaps and overlaps, coordinate with other staff managing trades.
  • Ensure complete and accurate pricing within estimate or Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP), reflect recent pricing data and trade partner bids or budgets.
  • Participate in estimate review meetings with internal stakeholders to validate estimate prior to client delivery
  • Lead coordination of operational input during estimating, bidding, and GMP process; ensure estimate incorporates detailed General Conditions/Requirement (GC/GRs) study and site logistics and Building LIFE as prepared by Operations.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's Degree from accredited degree program in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Cost Engineering or similar.

· Minimum of 5 years' experience in Estimating in the New York Construction Industry.

· Building construction, materials, systems, market conditions, trade practices knowledge

· Ability to read, understand and interpret contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work and project schedule

· Extensive knowledge of estimating documents and ability to provide accurate qualitative and quantitative analysis of documents

· Conceptual ability, able to work with minimum information and quickly develop understanding of owner/architect requirements

· Project management of competing demands, and meet established deadlines

· Professional verbal and written communication skills.

· Proficient computer skills and Microsoft Office suite of applications, and familiar with estimating software.

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