Senior Quantity Surveyor

SENIOR QUANTITY SURVEYOR

Specific Responsibilities
- As a lead member of the Estimating team, performs as a task leader in estimating activities.
- Responsible for providing technical guidance to Senior Estimators, Estimators, and Associate Estimators.
- Ensures that the tasked estimating team delivers quality-controlled, best-in-class estimates for projects and programs that he/she is assigned as task leader.
- Provides guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to an estimated team tasked to resolve difficult and complex estimating problems on tasks assigned.
- Assists project/program management with preparation of schedules for estimate preparation, defining resource requirements for estimate deliverables, review of Client task requests for estimate deliverables, and documents and publication involving impacts to probable project/program cost.
- Leads estimate task teams who are tasked to perform probable cost estimates for products and services that may be contracted and delivered by the company, or that the Client may solicit in the open market.
- Utilizes knowledge of resources skill sets and durations required to prepare and deliver task assigned.
- Assigns a team of estimators to prepare material takeoffs for the most complex projects, drawings, plans, and specifications.
- Reviews takeoffs provided by the estimate task team, the Engineering Department, or other sources, and checks for mathematical and technical accuracy.
- Oversees the preparation of top-down work breakdown structures (WBS) defining tasked estimate scope, work elements, major project components, and subsystems, and assigning appropriate estimate staff to each element of the estimate by system and subsystem.
- Reviews contractual documents and contract modifications to determine the scope of work and scope changes.
- Quantifies the impacts to contract cost as a matter of contractual commercial terms and conditions based on stipulations given in the general conditions and commercial terms section of a contract.
- Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.

Key Relationships:

- Supervision Received - Chief Estimator; Project Control Mgr; Project/Program Manager
- Supervision Given - Lower-level Estimators
- Internal Contacts - All employees on projects/program
- External Contacts - Clients; Subcontractors; Vendors: Suppliers

Skills and Competencies
- Ability to lead an estimate team that is required to perform difficult and complex estimating activities typical to the engineering and construction industry projects and programs required.
- In addition, excellent written and verbal communication skills, knowledge of company and project procedures and practices, familiarity with typical project controls software such as Primavera scheduling software, Estimate/Schedule Transfer tools, Contract Manager, and DMCS (Document and Materials Control System) is required.
- Must have a clear understanding of, and ability to work with, construction contract commercial documents, drawings, and specifications, and be qualified to be a project/program estimate team leader.

Education and Typical Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Construction Management or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of related work experience. and
- Previous experience using estimating database-supported software.

Licenses and Certifications

**Minimum Clearance Required to Start**:
Not Applicable/None

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