Senior Civil, Structural, Architectural Estimator

Location: Markham, ON, Canada; Hybrid

When you care deeply about the work you do, it’s rewarding to see it through from concept to completion. We partner with clients to provide both program management and construction management to strategize, plan, and implement projects that drive organizations forward. From hospitals and airports to university campuses, mass transit systems, water treatment facilities, mines, and wind farms, we've successfully managed thousands of projects.  

Joining our team, turning visionary ideas into reality, will shape your future—and the future of your community. 

We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organization’s objectives. Join our award-winning program management team and bring transformational project solutions to life.

Your Opportunity 

Stantec is seeking a Civil, Structural, Architectural Estimator within our Program Management group with a background in a wide range of sectors including transit, healthcare and nuclear.  

This is a key position and requires excellent communication skills and a willingness to work as part of a large multidisciplinary team to successfully deliver major capital projects.  

Your Key Responsibilities

• Strong knowledge of costing large infrastructure and buildings projects.
• Responsible for the preparation of detailed quantity take-offs and bill of materials.
• Responsible for the preparation and review of all classes of estimates of probable costs at each design milestone on projects across North America.
• Mentor, provide guidance and manage junior and intermediate estimating staff.
• Assess merit and cost for project changes and claims and support negotiations.
• Lead and co-ordinate efforts and compile information from other estimating disciplines.
• Provide innovative solutions to estimating issues and problems. 
• Develop, maintain and improve procedures, databases, early phase cost models, templates and tools for cost estimating.
• Establish site specific estimating criteria including wage and person-hour productivity rates.
• Provide input and recommendations for estimating requirements relative to staffing for the full range of estimating activities. 
• Perform cost risk assessment and probabilistic simulations to establish project contingency and project reserve.
• Develop cost loading for project schedule.
• Support project procurement.   
• Prepare and present project cost reports to internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to and support project pursuits.
• Other estimating and cost management activities as required.

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