Principal EPC Estimator

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Company overview

CB&I is the worldu2019s leading designer and builder of storage facilities, tanks, and terminals. With more than 60,000 structures completed throughout our 135+ year history, we have the global expertise and strategically located operations to provide customers world-class storage solutions for even the most complex energy infrastructure projects.

Overview

Accordingly, this role requires a high level of proficiency in estimating practices, as well as a broad and thorough knowledge of the discipline. This employee routinely interacts with leaders in Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Fabrication to develop a fully priced EPC estimate and is responsible for presenting the basis of estimate to the management team.

They organize and plan the estimating effort, including the leading of discipline estimators, and take responsibility for the complete cost estimate. They can produce detailed takeoffs as well as developing both conceptual and budget estimates.

• Lead customer open book estimate reviews
• Accountable for managing precontract budgets of up to $250K
• Responsible for preparing estimates for commercial proposals by working with operations, engineering, supply chain, and fabrication groups
• Develop the estimate based on estimating standards, closeout data, and the scope of work
• Develop estimating tools, procedures, standards, guidelines, and work instructions
• Evaluate new estimating techniques and software and provide a recommendation to leadership
• Establish and maintain estimating databases of pricing structures to be applied to estimates
• Practically apply and maintain benchmark data for estimates and produce high-quality estimating documentation for forward standardization
• Analyze scope documents, including specifications, drawings, bills of material, historical data, and calculate project costs using labor and material pricing schedules
• Develop the preparation of estimates ensuring all aspects of activity scope are understood and priced, including areas of technical uncertainty and incomplete design
• Develop the preparation of cost estimates applying advanced principles and concepts in a comprehensive and accurate manner for complex facilities and balance of plant scope
• Provide cost effective solutions to differentiate from our competition
• Prepare the estimate by the work breakdown structure and chart of accounts
• Responsible for preparing conceptual and definitive total installed cost estimates
• Conduct precontract kickoff meetings with project managers and business line management to plan bid strategy and ascertain methods of performance based on the scope of work
• Capable of quickly evaluating and validating quantities provided by engineering, summarizing, and distributing to the supply chain team in a format appropriate for vendors and subcontractors
• Assist in obtaining firm quotes for material suppliers, equipment, and subcontractors
• Obtain review and input from Legal, Tax, Insurance, Finance, and other corporate support groups
• Travel to project site or regional office to support the completion of the estimate
• Collaborate with other functions during estimate creation to ensure overall accuracy
• Have the ability to recommend cost-reduction options
• Perform risk analysis and lead risk register workshops
• Hold precontract team accountable to the agreed precontract schedule and report to management when the deliverables are not arriving on schedule providing delays to the reviews

• BS in Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of relevant experience, with 10+ years in an estimating role
• Demonstrate prior experience estimating large, complex projects greater than $100MM USD
• Demonstrate skills and experience in more than two major disciplines of EPC estimating and coordination with technical personnel in performing all levels and types of estimating scope quantification, pricing, and analysis of escalation and contingency
• Proficiency with MS Office product suite, with expertise in Excel
• Experience with VBA and Power BI programming is valued
• Strong critical thinking, analytical, and organizational skills
• Strong understanding of construction processes
• Strong engineering and construction industry experience on major projects, both in field and large fabrication workshop
• Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision
• Understands relationships between work processes and the cost to our business
• Experience both on client side and as a subcontractor, understands schedules of rates, progress claims, and change management

• Strong understanding of construction projects and some experience in engineering, procurement, fabrication, and/or construction
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
• Technical proficiency with typical software

Company Industry: Construction

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