Senior Estimator - Structural

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About the role

As a Senior Estimator at Stantec, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and coordinating cost estimates for building and facility projects. You will work with a dynamic team of cost estimators, schedulers, and construction engineers in Stantec's estimating group. The position involves coordinating teams of discipline estimators and estimating various project disciplines for projects ranging from approximately $1 million to $2 billion, including commercial, institutional, industrial, process-support, operations, maintenance, administrative, laboratory, warehouse, and infrastructure-adjacent facilities.

This role is intended for an experienced estimator with strong building and facility estimating experience, including architectural systems, structural steel and concrete, foundations, building envelope, interiors/finishes, and related multi-discipline coordination. Experience estimating industrial, commercial, institutional, operations, process-support, or infrastructure-adjacent buildings is strongly preferred. Multi-discipline estimating capability is a significant plus.

Stantec offers workplace flexibility, allowing you to work from home or a Stantec US or Canadian office, with some domestic and possibly international travel required.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and coordinate the timely and complete development of multi-discipline cost estimates and construction schedules.
• Develop detailed estimates for architectural systems, building envelope, interiors, finishes, doors/hardware, specialties, vertical circulation, structural steel, concrete, foundations, and related building components.
• Support and collaborate with other estimators for the development of cost estimates and construction schedules.
• Coordinate the input parameters for cost estimates and construction schedules.
• Validate material takeoffs and construction quantities from drawings.
• Coordinate and compile information from all estimating disciplines into one cost estimate.
• Develop estimate execution plans outlining estimating strategy, scope assumptions, methodologies, staffing requirements, and schedules for major estimating efforts.
• Prepare detailed labor-force work plans for estimating activities.
• Prepare basis of cost estimate report deliverables for the end user.
• Establish site-specific estimating criteria including wage and person-hour productivity rates.
• Perform thorough quality control of construction documents and provide design ideas and solutions.
• Support vendor, supplier, and subcontractor pricing activities, including soliciting, reviewing, and incorporating quotations into comprehensive cost estimates.
• Provide support for procurement, change and claims valuation and negotiations.
• Prepare construction logistics plans.
• Provide innovative solutions for construction, estimating issues and problems.
• Interface with designated management and client counterparts for specific estimating tasks.
• Identify, assess, and quantify project risks and opportunities, including potential cost and schedule impacts, and contribute to formal cost and schedule risk analyses as required.
• Review design documents such as specifications and drawings to identify risks and opportunities related to competitive pricing for key project elements.
• Prepare and coordinate constructability reviews for engineering designs.
• Serve as the primary cost estimating point of contact for clients and external stakeholders, supporting clear communication, alignment on scope, and estimate defensibility throughout project development.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, best practices, and emerging estimating methodologies, applying lessons learned to improve estimate quality, efficiency, and competitiveness.

Requirements

• Extensive technical knowledge of cost/estimating, construction practice, and engineering design, and applicable standards and procedures.
• Experienced in estimating buildings and facilities, including one or more of the following: commercial buildings, industrial facilities, operations and maintenance buildings, process-support buildings, warehouses, laboratories, administrative facilities, institutional buildings, or infrastructure-adjacent facilities.
• Strong estimating expertise in architectural and/or structural scopes such as structural steel, reinforced concrete, foundations, masonry, building envelope, roofing, glazing, interior partitions, finishes, doors/hardware, and specialty building components.
• Multi-discipline estimating experience is strongly preferred, including the ability to coordinate civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, and specialty scopes into a comprehensive project estimate.
• Advanced understanding of different contract methods and how they apply to estimating.
• Experience with InEight Estimate, Sage Timberline Estimating, On-Screen Take-Off, MCASES MII, IPE, HCSS or other databased estimating platforms.
• Experience with one or more scheduling software (Primavera P6, MS Project).
• Ability to travel for site reconnaissance and interfacing with clients and stakeholders (domestic and some international travel may be periodically required).
• Experience working with other discipline estimators to develop a comprehensive project estimate.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present cost estimating projects.
• Ability to solve complex problems using sound professional judgement, creativity, and innovation.
• Ability to guide and mentor team members in engineering and construction-based estimating techniques and methodologies.
• Positive attitude with strong relationship-building skills.
• Strong client-facing skills, with experience serving as the primary estimating interface for internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Operations Management, Business Management, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of combined experience in an estimating and construction role.
• Field experience, contractor-side estimating experience, preconstruction experience, or design-phase estimating experience on building or facility projects is strongly preferred.
• Professional certifications such as AACE, RICS, ASPE, PMI, DBIA, or related construction/estimating credentials are considered an asset.

Typical office environment working with computers. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

Pay

• Various Locations in ME, VA: $91,000.00 - $136,500.00 Annually
• Locations in MN, OH, VT, & Various CA, ME, NY, VA Areas: $101,100.00 - $151,700.00 Annually
• Locations in CO, HI, IL, MD & Various CA, NJ, VA Areas: $111,200.00 - $166,900.00 Annually
• Locations in WA, DC & Various CA, MA, VA Areas: $119,300.00 - $179,000.00 Annually

In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. The final agreed-upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec, certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Wellness program
• Health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) plan
• Employee stock purchase program
• Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
• Short-term/long-term disability plans
• Emergency travel benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional membership fee coverage
• Paid family leave
• Ten paid holidays in each calendar year
• Vacation accrual between 10 and 20 days per year
• Paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law)

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law. The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.