Maintenance & Construction Estimator

Company Description
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Pay Range
$137,640 - $170,904 Annually
Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. Many factors are taken into consideration when setting starting pay including education, experience, the external labor market, and internal equity.
Job Description
We have an opening for a Maintenance & Construction Estimator. You will provide support to Laboratory projects and programs in the form of planning, design, estimating, specifying materials, and coordinating the efficient use of workforce, equipment, and time defining activities and associated scope, activity durations, logic and interfaces between activities, and resource loading activities required for maintenance and construction job order work by shop crafts or on-site contractors. This position is in the Engineering Services Division within the Infrastructure Engineering & Operations Department (IEOD) and requires working at Site 200 in Livermore, California and Site 300 in Tracy, California.
You will
Provide highly advanced technical and administrative direction and oversight in the development of maintenance/construction cost estimating work processes, tools, and procedures, extensions for total cost estimates, and estimates created for staff resource hours using standard construction reference material, preferably based on Construction Specification Institute.
Establish format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including segregation of cost per level of confidence and identification of areas of risk; identify improvements needed to the risk/contingency review process, and develop and implement solutions.
Prepare and develop contingency and escalation evaluation for estimates; assist in the development of value engineering suggestions, coherently explain the basis of estimate to customers and management.
Serve as subject matter expert on cost estimating activities; mentor, review, and advise others on the production and status of schedule network data and participate in developing and presenting training classes and on-the-job training for cost estimating processes and practices.
Collaborate with high-level technical, administrative, and managerial personnel and client counterparts for specific planning and scheduling tasks and earned value presentations; interact with a diverse workforce, apply constructability concepts to develop detailed cost estimate take-offs, and provide constant feedback to all project stakeholders.
Analyze complex data and reconcile estimated costs versus bid costs to develop more accurate estimates by understanding and tracking current market influences; ensure current information on rates, prices, and trends are fed back into the estimating system.
Serve as the Alternate Subcontract Technical Representative and/or Alternate Responsible Individual for maintenance/construction/repair subcontracts. Provide procurement team with bids from multiple qualified subcontractors, lead safety meetings/pre-start briefs, mitigate safety concerns, oversee subcontractor's work to ensure job is being performed as estimated, discuss problem areas as they develop, offer solutions, and support change order validation.
Comply with business sensitive non-disclosure policies for estimates, proposals and bids information and ensure information is properly distributed and managed.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
Bachelor's degree in an engineering, engineering technology, construction management, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience with extensive experience in construction and/or maintenance and operations of facility infrastructure.
Significant experience as a multi-discipline construction cost estimator with either a general or specialty subcontractor, executing projects through contract or in-house workforce, and performing quality assurance/quality control inspections for building electrical asset installations.
Highly advanced knowledge of technical processes, engineering standards, state and federal codes, engineering drawings (including reading prints, drawing sketches, reading specifications), analyzing data, generating records, and writing mathematical and financial reports.
Highly advanced knowledge of and significant experience using cost/estimating/scheduling computer applications to estimate jobs related to conceptual designs, preliminary design, and for delivering final cost estimate in advance of contract bidding.
Highly advanced knowledge of and significant experience developing cost estimates for man hours using standard construction reference material such as R.S. Means, Richardson, Sheet metal & Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) and National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) guidelines.
Highly advanced experience estimating jobs for conceptual designs, preliminary designs, and developing final costs estimates in advance of contract bidding, for both Design build and Design Bid Build project deliveries.
Advanced interpersonal and communication skills to effectively establish and maintain highly productive working relationships with a broad cross-section of management, technical, scientific, and administrative personnel.
Experience using Microsoft Office and computer-based estimating, take off, scheduling and spreadsheet programs such as Sage Estimating, OST, and Bluebeam.
Qualifications We Desire
Experience as a multi-discipline Construction and/or Maintenance Cost Estimator.
Experience managing work involving subcontractors.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Position Information
This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.
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Flexible Benefits Package
401(k)
Relocation Assistance
Education Reimbursement Program
Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
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Security Clearance
This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.
Pre-Employment Drug Test
External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.
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