COST ESTIMATOR

Job Title : COST ESTIMATOR 💰

 

📋 Position Overview

KILONEWTONS is seeking a veteran, highly analytical, and strategic COST ESTIMATOR to spearhead our commercial budgeting, financial forecasting, and heavy industrial project pricing operations in Dallas 🤠. In this senior role, you will calculate comprehensive material, labor, equipment, and overhead costs for large-scale structural engineering and steel fabrication projects. Your precise financial modeling and value engineering insights will ensure our bids are fiercely competitive, highly accurate, and consistently profitable.

🎯 Key Responsibilities

  • Comprehensive Takeoffs & Pricing: Conduct detailed blueprint, drawing, and specification takeoffs to generate accurate cost projections for heavy structural, industrial, and civil projects. 📊
  • Detailed Bill of Quantities (BOQ): Develop meticulous Bills of Quantities and comprehensive master budgets incorporating raw steel costs, specialized labor, transport, and sub-contractor fees. 📋
  • Value Engineering & Cost Optimization: Analyze project specifications to identify alternative materials, construction methods, or logistical efficiencies that reduce costs without sacrificing structural integrity. 💡
  • Subcontractor & Vendor Bid Leveling: Solicit, review, analyze, and level bids from material suppliers, 3PL providers, and specialty subcontractors to secure optimal pricing agreements. 🤝
  • Risk & Contingency Modeling: Evaluate market volatility, commodity price fluctuations (especially in iron and steel), and regional labor rates to establish realistic project risk contingencies. 🛡️
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with project managers, procurement teams, structural engineers, and executive leadership to align cost baselines with client expectations and company financial targets. 🤝
  • Historical Data Benchmarking: Maintain and update proprietary pricing databases and cost history archives to continuously improve future estimating accuracy. 🗄️

🛠️ Required Qualifications & Experience

  • Professional Experience: Minimum of 10 years of progressive cost estimation, quantity surveying, or project financial planning experience within the heavy construction, steel fabrication, or civil engineering sector. ⏱️
  • Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Finance, or a related technical discipline. Professional certifications (e.g., CPE, PMP, or RICS) are highly preferred. 🎓
  • Software Proficiency: Expert command of industry-standard estimating and takeoff software (e.g., Bluebeam Revu, Procore, Sage Estimating, or McCormick), alongside AutoCAD and Revit (for digital takeoffs and drawing reviews) and STAAD.Pro or Tekla Structures (for cross-referencing structural component quantities and steel tonnage weights). 💻
  • Market Knowledge: Deep understanding of US construction markets (specifically Texas/regional standards), material pricing indices, and labor union regulations. 📈
  • Language Skills: Professional proficiency in English (written and verbal). 🗣️

🌟 Soft Skills

  • Numerical Precision: Exceptional mathematical aptitude and obsessive attention to detail when crunching complex multi-million-dollar project figures. 🔢
  • Strategic Negotiation: Strong negotiation tactics and commercial acumen when dealing with high-stakes vendor contracts and subcontractor bidding. 🤝
  • Analytical Problem-Solving: Ability to foresee financial bottlenecks, variance drivers, and cost overruns before they impact project profitability. 🔍
  • Time Management & Composure: Proven ability to manage tight tender deadlines, handle high-pressure bidding environments, and juggle multiple overlapping estimates. ⚡

🏢 About KILONEWTONS

At KILONEWTONS, we engineer the backbone of global industrial progress. Operating at the forefront of the iron and steel sector, our brand stands for unyielding strength, financial discipline, and precision manufacturing. Join our world-class leadership team in Dallas and help us build a profitable, structurally sound future! 🏗️✨

📝 How to Apply

Ready to drive financial excellence with a global industry leader? Submit your resume, cover letter, and portfolio of managed tenders directly through our careers portal at www.kilonewtons.com or send your application to our HR team today! 🚀💼

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