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Estimator- Metals

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Requirements

  • 5+ years structural steel and/or miscellaneous metals estimating
  • Experience with both fabrication and field erection costs
  • Ability to read structural, architectural, and shop drawings
  • Strong understanding of AISC standards and steel construction practices
  • Experience pricing: Structural steel
  • Stairs
  • Railings
  • Miscellaneous metals
  • Decking
  • Joist/girder packages
  • Proficient in Bluebeam and Excel
  • Ability to prepare bid packages, clarifications, and exclusions
  • Risk Identification and understanding the following:
  • Access
  • Crane requirements
  • Schedule constraints
  • Connections
  • Tolerances
  • Erection Estimating and understanding:
  • Piece count
  • Complexity
  • Height
  • Welding requirements
  • Crane picks
  • Collaboration with operations:
  • Being able to sit with a superintendent and foreman and gain buy-in.
  • Coordination between GC precon teams and SPW
  • Preferred Background
  • Tekla, SDS2, Advance Steel, or BIM experience
  • Experience within a company that has done Fab as well and erection
  • Design-build experience
  • Anticipated starting pay range:
  • $100,000.00- $140,000.00 Nothing is more important than your health and wellness. DPR offers a variety of medical, dental, vision and wellness benefits to keep you healthy. Read more about eligibility and available benefits programs
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Additional Information

Job Description DPR Construction is seeking an Estimator- Metal with at least 3 years of commercial construction experience. Estimators will work on commercial projects within our core markets: healthcare, advanced technology, higher education, life sciences and corporate office. Senior estimators will work closely with GC Teams, architects, engineers, owners, and subcontractors and are required to have the following skills: Handling the project from first estimate all the way through contracts being formalized. Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete metals cost evaluation and approach to the project. Must be aggressive in providing innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials. Ability to make reliable predictions as it relates to cost and be comfortable estimating across all aspects of construction. Must have experience preparing detailed conceptual metals cost estimates and conceptual cost studies from schematic or feasibility-level documentation. Ability to prepare detailed estimates and, as the design evolves, develop variance summaries between estimates and value engineering studies throughout. Ability to assemble and present a complete presentation-worthy estimate package that clearly communicates the estimate to any audience type. Must be able to collaborate with the entire project team to establish the necessary staffing and project requirements. Must have knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost. Ability to prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade specific clarifications and comprehensive bid packages for sub-tiers. Must have experience with the bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc. Work closely with Operations Team (Superintendents, Foreman, Project Managers, Etc) to refine estimate and ensure it is alignment with project approach, schedule, and logistics. Make subcontractor award recommendations and the negotiation and finalization of subcontracts with trade partners. Must have experience being a member of the team involved in request for proposal responses (RFP's) and the formal presentation for a project. Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers. Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team. Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key risks that could affect the estimate. Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project.


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