Responsibilities:

Project Planning

• Perform take offs of conceptual projects and pre-construction plans.
• Evaluate conceptual plans and create initial project budgets.
• Compare initial project budgets to active and historic project budgets.
• Update initial project budgets as plans are developed and revised.
• Check Subcontractors’ bids and estimates as needed to ensure accuracy.
• Visit job sites and proposed sites as required to perform estimates and gather cost data.
• Conduct cost feasibility studies on different building types, materials, etc.
• Research new building systems and materials for future projects.
• Develop new vendors, suppliers, subcontractor relationships.
• Provide consolidated construction cost and unit turn projections for all planned projects.

Cost Control

• Plan, organize, and control construction estimating activities
• .Provide estimates as necessary for the Project Manager to buy-out and negotiate all subcontracts and purchase orders
• .Evaluate plan revisions, field changes, and proposed change orders and report the impact on the overall construction budget to the Project Manager
• .Prepare project budget comparison reports.
• Perform market research and cost analyses as needed
• .Check Subcontractors’ bids and estimates as needed to ensure accuracy
• .Perform project specific take off estimates as requested
• .Prepare reports and analysis pertinent to estimating activities as requested