Chief Estimator – Team Construction

Title of the Job: Chief Estimator

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: Do you have a passion for construction? Do you dig deep into details, numbers, and pride yourself on creating positive and lasting relationships?We want your expertise!We want your enthusiasm to deliver top quality construction estimates and budgets for our world-class clients.We’re looking for a tenacious and passionate team member to hit the ground running as Chief Estimator, in our Toronto office.Company clients stretch all commercial, industrial, and retail sectors and our 25 years in the Toronto construction business means we’ve built some incredible relationships in these industries.As Chief Estimator, you’ll coordinate both Lump-Sum bid opportunities, as well construction budget responses, helping to maintain and grow these relationships.ALL ABOUT YOU:

• You’ve gained educational and/or practical experience in a related discipline or trade experience directly related to construction, or equivalent
• You’ve built a minimum of 15+ years of progressive experience in construction cost estimating

• You’ve successfully led budget and bid pursuits and scope reviews valued at up to $10 million
• You have general construction knowledge or better; and can understand and interpret project specifications, drawings, materials, methods and procedures
• You bring intermediate knowledge or better, of key principles involved in bid preparation; including quantity takeoff procedures and systems, subtrade partner procurement, pricing, interdepartmental functions, general expense philosophy and bid-closing procedures
• You understand the impact of economical inflation, market conditions, business trends, internal historical information, and industry competitors
• You come familiar with different delivery methods including hard bid, guaranteed maximum price (GMP), unit price, design-build, rough-order-of-magnitude (ROM), client target ideals, and disbursements/reimbursables
• You thrive on establishing and maintaining working relationships with stakeholders, building landlords, market suppliers, subtrade partners, and professional consultants
• You have agile working experience with Excel spreadsheets, Word, Outlook, Adobe PDF, Sharepoint/OneDrive.
• Experience with MSProject and Procore would be great, but not required
• Overall, come pre-wired for fun, enjoy working hard to reap amazing benefits, and prepare to easily plug into a great company team of like-minded people!

Company Name: Team Construction

Salary: $80000 per year

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