Cost Estimator
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Cost Estimator leading conceptual and detailed capital-project estimates for Georgia-Pacific, a paper and manufacturing company. Validating costs, managing risks, and improving project cost intelligence.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the overall estimating process across projects, including estimating kickoff and alignment meetings
- Perform conceptual or detailed bottom-up estimates and/or manage partner estimating teams
- Conduct estimate reviews and cost/quantity validations
- Partner with preferred engineering and construction firms to develop project cost estimates
- Prepare conceptual estimates when design information is limited
- Develop detailed bottom-up estimates for project authorization
- Identify risks and value-improvement opportunities
- Assess estimate quality and validate estimates against internal and external data
- Review and challenge change orders during construction
- Benchmark actual project costs after completion to improve future estimating
- Collaborate with project teams and preferred construction and engineering partners
- Ensure estimating structures align with project work breakdown structures
- Communicate risks and improvement opportunities to reviewers
- Monitor and analyze project costs and work with project teams to control and improve cost outcomes
Requirements:
- Ten or more years of project estimating experience in the industrial, chemical, oil and gas, or related industries
- Robust understanding of cost build ups, engineering documents, blueprints, and other deliverables that influence estimates
- Ability to assess estimating methodologies that impact estimate quality
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic and team-oriented environment
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- Expertise with data management / historical cost tool development preferred
- Degree in construction management / building science preferred
- Background in construction and/or project management preferred
- Expertise in estimating process piping and/or electrical costs preferred
- Expertise in the pulp and paper industry preferred
- AACEI certification as a Certified Cost Professional (CCP) preferred
- EcoSys software experience preferred
- Qlik software experience preferred
- Successful completion of a drug test may be required where permitted by state law
- Employment uses E-Verify
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Paid vacation/time off
- Educational assistance
- Potential infertility assistance
- Potential paid parental leave
- Potential adoption assistance
- Flexible work environment supporting individual work and personal needs
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