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Responsibilities will include:
- Ability to accurately and competitively price and estimate work within residential, commercial and industrial sectors
- Preparing estimates that will comprise of detailed summaries and analysis specific to individual scopes of work
- Accurately read and review proposed specifications and drawings specific to individual scopes of work
- Tendering will include structural steel and miscellaneous metals take offs
- Ordering of materials and maintaining current knowledge of industry pricing
- Proficient with AutoCAD
- Managing of employee safety program
- Maintaining daily contact with team members including scheduling and work prioritization
Qualifications will include:
- Minimum 2 years of related experience preferred
- Field supervisory experience an asset
- Familiarity with welding and fabrication industry an asset
- Confident negotiation and strong client relation skills
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- WHMIS
- First Aid Certificate
- Driver's License
- CPR Certificate
- CADD Course
Additional Skills
- Read and interpret blueprints, drawings and specifications
- Operate CADD systems
Specific Skills
- Advise on tendering procedures
- Utilize quantity take-off procedures
- Set up cost monitoring and reporting systems
- Select sub-trades
- Prepare estimates for general expenses and overheads
- Prepare estimates of labour and material costs
- Prepare master format estimates (Class A)
- Prepare bill of material
- Prepare and maintain a directory of suppliers and contractors
- Estimate pre-contract costs
Project Size Estimating Experience
- $ 100,001 - $ 500,000
- $ 500,001 - $1,500,000
- 0 - $100,000
Major Work Area
- Estimating
Business Equipment and Computer Applications
- Take-off packages
- Scheduling packages
- Estimating packages
- Databases
Type of Construction Experience
- Structural
- Residential
- Mechanical
- Industrial
- Commercial
- Architectural