Job Summary: 

• Responsible for costing metals products for regional operations and will be responsible for all aspects of quoting management for all OEM’s and developing new business.
• Works closely with engineering, operations and the tooling groups in order to standardize the company’s efforts regarding manufacturing and design while providing a cost perspective.
• Provides support to Program Managers with respect to issues concerning advanced product engineering, manufacturing, production stamping, die processes, assembly processes and customer cost evaluations, serving as a conduit between the technical teams and Program Management.
• Determine part weights and make raw material assumptions
• Identifies equipment, labor, raw material purchased components, packaging and other requirements needed to produce the product.
• Supports the tooling group with target estimates and sending out RFQs to tooling vendors.
• Determines manufacturing processes required to produce product and collaborates with manufacturing/industrial engineering to solidify assumptions and order of operations.
• Coordinates with purchasing to provide targets and secures supplier pricing.
• Works to support rate development activities in line with company objectives and best practices
• Updates cost model, applying profit mark up, to determine the recommended selling price for review with Management.
• Assists in completing customer quotation forms 
• Confers with design and manufacturing engineers on changes and adjustments to cost estimates.
• Maintains data in information system or databases.
• Conform with and abide by all regulations, policies and procedures.

Skills on Resume:

• Cost Management (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Technical Support (Soft Skills)
• Material and Labor Estimation (Hard Skills)
• RFQ Handling (Hard Skills)
• Manufacturing Process Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Supplier Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Data Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Support the estimating department in building cost and lead time for quotations using the approved requote process.
• Be a liaison between the estimating, operations, purchasing and quality departments. 
• Compile cost breakdowns and price walks for key stakeholders.
• Build cost and lead time of components for repeat work.
• Determine best manufacturing processes to achieve desired part dimensions and tolerances based on job history.
• Compile estimates for programming, set up times and machine cycle times based on past job histories.
• Compile estimates for materials and outside services 
• Determine lead times based on internal capacity, materials, and outside services.
• Collaborate with floor leads, purchasing, outsourcing and operations 
• Confirm quotations are still valid at time of customer order.
• Participate in quotation review meetings 
• Participate in job kick-off meetings 
• Work toward meeting departmental key performance indicators (KPI’s) / measurables.
• Read and understand blueprints.

Skills on Resume:

• Cost and Lead Time Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Department Liaison (Soft Skills)
• Cost Breakdown Compilation (Hard Skills)
• Manufacturing Process Optimization (Hard Skills)
• Time Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Materials and Services Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Lead Time Determination (Hard Skills)
• Blueprint Reading (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Review design consultant and construction contractor cost estimates and supporting documents
• Review cost estimates associated with value engineering proposals
• Prepare independent cost estimates or check estimates 
• Support project construction managers and project managers with contract disputes involving cost issues (invoice values, change order amounts, claims, etc.)
• Participate in guaranteed maximum price development, review, and negotiations
• Coordinate with Public Outreach, Real Estate, Permitting, Controls, and other functions
• Collaborate with engineers, contractors, vendors, and suppliers
• Monitor and report on relevant commodities
• Recommend cost management strategies
• Support the annual baseline and budgeting process
• Maintain appropriate records in the project management information system (e-Builder)
• Monitor and track cost estimating performance (e.g., budget vs bid results)
• Build and maintain unit cost database
• Work in a manner to ensure personal safety and that of fellow employees by following PMO and company health and safety guidelines and policies

Skills on Resume:

• Cost Estimate Review (Hard Skills)
• Value Engineering Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Independent Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Contract Dispute Support (Soft Skills)
• Price Negotiation (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Cost Management Recommendations (Hard Skills)
• Performance Monitoring (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Work independently with responsibility for reporting results.
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of master schedules, preparation and analysis of project schedules, conceptual and detailed take-off estimating of individual projects, review of cost estimates prepared by others, managing complex project financial information, and cost analysis reports for the project construction management team.
• Develops and maintains budgets and monitors adherence to project schedule.
• Works with other estimators on cost reports to identify potential gaps, failures and/or discrepancies that could be encountered in the project execution.
• Understand construction means and methods.
• Prepare, develop, and review documents to process change orders.
• Schedule and negotiate potential change orders.
• Performs monthly Estimate at Completions on project.
• Reconcile program and project controls data with the project team.
• Produces monthly variance reports for schedule and cost.
• Present results of schedule and cost analyses to Project Director and other client representatives.
• Prepares technical and administrative reports 

Skills on Resume:

• Independent Reporting (Soft Skills)
• Schedule Development (Hard Skills)
• Budget Management (Hard Skills)
• Cost Report Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Construction Methods Understanding (Hard Skills)
• Change Order Management (Hard Skills)
• Variance Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Technical Report Preparation (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Reviews plans and specifications to become familiar with project scopes
• Ensures that corporate estimating procedures are followed
• Support and work with estimating/engineering/business development staff in the review of project plans, requirements and specifications
• Perform quantity take-offs and pricing of primarily federal construction projects
• Perform constructability reviews and develop draft project schedules
• Support client presentations such as charrettes, design review meetings, and value engineering meetings
• Supervise junior level estimating staff or estimating subconsultants 
• Work closely with a global, cross-functional team that includes Contracts and Finance to support customer fact finds, audits, and negotiations.
• Proactively support strategic pricing initiatives for assigned customers/products to incorporate market and value pricing methodologies.
• Evaluate historical data, competitive information and product features to develop customer/product specific pricing.
• Prepare Long Term Agreement proposal signoffs and negotiation objectives for management review.
• Partner with Technical Support and Product Management in confirming product commerciality and competitive position for assigned product lines.
• Serve as a cross-functional back-up to other Cost Estimators including developing part pricing and key and valued customer quoting.

Skills on Resume:

• Project Scope Familiarization (Hard Skills)
• Procedure Adherence (Hard Skills)
• Quantity Take-Offs (Hard Skills)
• Constructability Review (Hard Skills)
• Client Presentation Support (Soft Skills)
• Team Supervision (Soft Skills)
• Strategic Pricing (Hard Skills)
• Competitive Pricing Evaluation (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Prepares labour and material estimates for ship maintenance and repair, conversions, and new constructions.
• Estimates requests based on accurate evaluations of owner-supplied specifications, terms and conditions, detailed or outline specifications, drawings, sketches, or following verbal instructions. 
• Soliciting pricing from suppliers, consulting with shipyard personnel, contractors, regulatory bodies, and trades
• Applying general and specific knowledge of the work to be performed gained from experience and analysis
• Determine man-hour and material requirements and calculate the overall costs for the project.
• Provides management with summaries for estimated labour and material and overviews of work content, including work requiring special consideration regarding complexity, time requirements, and non-availability of products or services.
• Develops and maintains reports derived from key organizational data to support future estimating work, as well other business divisions.
• Optimizes and standardizes all stages of the data analysis process, from extraction through to modelling & visualization.
• Builds data set requirements, metrics, data/report definitions and establishes reporting governance processes.

Skills on Resume:

• Labour and Material Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Specification Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Pricing Solicitation (Soft Skills)
• Cost Calculation (Hard Skills)
• Management Summarization (Soft Skills)
• Report Development (Hard Skills)
• Data Analysis Optimization (Hard Skills)
• Reporting Governance (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Collects, interprets, analyzes, and transforms various types of data into relevant metrics and reports for end users.
• Validates data sources, transformations, and analysis against reference data to ensure quality, accuracy, and completeness of derived reports.
• Supports Estimators, Resource Planners, and Program Controllers in the application and interpretation of data, for use in estimates/budget calculations.
• Performs risk analysis on estimates by allocating risk profiles to cost elements and running simulations to identify the level of confidence.
• Builds and maintains cost estimate models to accurately calculate and classify project costs according to the given work breakdown structure.
• Uses estimating software to aid the calculation of estimates and to meet estimate reporting requirements.
• Store and maintain past project data in the estimating database (CostFact database) to support future project cost calculations.
• Develops and releases Yard performance reports to Operations and Upper Management on weekly and monthly basis.
• Identifies, connects, and maintains access to shipyard data sources (PowerBI dataflows, IFS, ShipConstructor, E1, Primavera).

Skills on Resume:

• Data Interpretation (Hard Skills)
• Data Validation (Hard Skills)
• Estimation Support (Soft Skills)
• Risk Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Cost Model Building (Hard Skills)
• Estimating Software Use (Hard Skills)
• Database Maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Report Development (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Support the wider team in providing commercial and procedural support. 
• Developing cost plans and involved in the cost management of national Framework tenders within a variety of public sectors, offering commercial advice on project affordability, cost savings and methods of construction.
• Positively contribute to the improvement in quality of response for all bids and pre-qualifications as well as collating cost and commercial data and maintaining accurate records accordingly.
• Use cost estimating experience to perform technically complex work ensuring that project budgeting is accurate and complete at every stage of the project life-cycle. 
• During pre-construction you will be responsible for the development of cost estimates at a level of detail commensurate with the project scope definition of the design documents, following the recommended practices and industry standards. 
• Provide independent cost estimates for potential change orders for reference as lead in contractor negotiations for extra work. 
• Responsible for working with claims analysts in the quantification of the financial damages incurred by contractors as a result of delays, loss of productivity, cost overruns, and other project impacts.
• Assist with the review of change orders, prepare or review cost estimates, review contractor’s proposals, and participate in negotiations with contractors at a field site
• Perform accurate quantity takeoffs by hand and/or using software enabled applications
• Prepare full or section of project estimates from conceptual design through 100% design, and prepare written basis of estimate report associated with the estimates
• Track market conditions and construction costs
• Organize and manage cost estimating database
• Assist with the development of project scope and communicate scope with key project stakeholders

Skills on Resume:

• Commercial Support (Soft Skills)
• Cost Plan Development (Hard Skills)
• Bid Quality Improvement (Soft Skills)
• Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Pre-Construction Budgeting (Hard Skills)
• Change Order Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Claims Analysis Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Scope Development Communication (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Lead conceptualization, development, and economic evaluation of new distillation technologies
• Interface with Business, Operations and Engineering to understand plant requirements for informing design improvements
• Design, carry out and evaluate laboratory experiments aimed at evaluating the performance of distillation equipment
• Obtain patents and contribute to intellectual property strategy around key new technologies
• Review state-of-the-art developments in distillation technology and champion adoption
• Engage in and lead distillation troubleshooting efforts, including interfacing with operators, reading P&IDs, and tailoring test plans to plant capabilities.
• Preparation and communication of labour and material estimates in support of business activities, using a variety of costing toolsets and techniques
• Monitoring labour and material spend against contract, using uniform/appropriate work breakdown structures
• Supporting planning processes in relation to the management of budget
• Assisting with Budgeting work orders to allow the process to run smoothly
• Assisting with Key events schedule/resource schedule
• Generating and validating company Norm and metrics

Skills on Resume:

• Technology Conceptualization (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Department Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Experimental Design (Hard Skills)
• Intellectual Property Strategy (Soft Skills)
• Technology Adoption (Soft Skills)
• Troubleshooting Leadership (Hard Skills)
• Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Budget Management Support (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Works with the project team and external consultants to establish construction timing and assess schedule impacts for project specific conditions/objectives.
• Tendering and Contracting: responsible for preparation of RFP’s, assists with scope reviews and extra items to ensure alignment with project parameters, and manages internal trade and material database.
• Prepares preliminary budgets for review and prepares high-level quantity takeoffs to understand the value associated with project changes (both cost and schedule). 
• Assists with managing budget allowances and contingencies.
• Conducts ongoing drawing reviews to provide cost assistance by identifying potential cost savings (value engineering) opportunities during all drawing development stages. 
• Proactively analyze the possible risks and gaps with recommended solutions.
• Leveraged as a resource to assess the cost for various sustainability targets. 
• Helps minimize the financial impact of these measures through proactive value engineering.
• Supports RioCan Living to develop the scope and management of the condo upgrade program.
• Gathers specific data to inform the organization on areas of improvement via strategic relationships or policies to guarantee and potentially improve project pipeline.

Skills on Resume:

• Construction Scheduling (Hard Skills)
• RFP and Contracting (Hard Skills)
• Budget Management (Hard Skills)
• Value Engineering (Hard Skills)
• Risk Mitigation (Soft Skills)
• Sustainability Costing (Hard Skills)
• Scope Development (Soft Skills)
• Data-Driven Strategies (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Responsible for quoting requirements for new / transfer programs
• Responsible for communicating competitive sources & pricing pertaining to tooling, resins & components to the Purchasing & Materials Supervisor
• Responsible for articulating quote terms & conditions of products to the Purchasing & Materials Supervisor, Materials Dept. and Quality Dept.
• Responsible for feasibility studies pertaining to new / transfer programs
• Present estimates and conduct review meetings with personnel responsible for Pricing approval
• Establish unit costs, labor rates, productivity factors and location impacts
• Assist plant & materials dept. with cost savings, feasibility studies, continuous improvements, time studies & awarded business
• Responsible to quote 3 suppliers on all tooling, resin and components unless deviation requested
• Responsible to attend QPP meetings with Program Managers & Team
• Responsible to articulate quoted budgets on all tooling, resin, colorant and components to Program Managers and plant personnel
• Responsible for the compilation of pricing breakdown sheets for presentation to the customer
• Responsible for sending the breakdown to the respective sales agent
• Responsible for the organized filing of completed quotes , background information and the update of the quote log

Skills on Resume:

• Quoting Requirements Management (Hard Skills)
• Competitive Pricing Communication (Soft Skills)
• Terms and Conditions Articulation (Soft Skills)
• Feasibility Studies Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Cost Estimation and Review (Hard Skills)
• Supplier Quotation Management (Hard Skills)
• Continuous Improvement Support (Soft Skills)
• Organized Filing and Documentation (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Virtually visit project site to evaluate information about access, topography, drainage, and availability of services, confer with architects, engineers and key internal stakeholders
• Clarify project objectives and adjust costs
• Assist in the preparation of detailed cost estimates and budgets 
• Analyzing plans and specifications and applying historic cost data and industry trends.
• Initiate the bidding process by developing bid packages, releasing RFPs, conduct virtual pre-bid site walks, respond to RFIs and conduct negotiations.
• Implement a strategy for tracking and organizing new GCs, including pre-quals, types of projects they work on, and areas of service/competitive areas
• Implement a rating system for GCs/Subs in conjunction with a do not use/on pause list. WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
• Interact with other Construction, Planning, and Real Estate Project Managers and personnel

Skills on Resume:

• Project Site Evaluation (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Bid Process Management (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Implementation (Soft Skills)
• Contractor Rating System Development (Hard Skills)
• Team Interaction (Soft Skills)