Construction Estimator – Quantity Surveyor

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About the role

  • Construction Estimator developing quantity takeoffs, cost estimates, and competitive bids for ATCO Frontec’s infrastructure, defence, and construction projects.

Responsibilities

  • Complete detailed quantity takeoffs from architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical drawings
  • Review drawings, specifications, schedules, tender documents, and contract requirements to confirm project scope
  • Identify scope gaps, inconsistencies, omissions, overlaps, and constructability concerns
  • Maintain traceable quantity calculations, measurement summaries, and supporting documentation
  • Prepare conceptual, budgetary, and detailed construction estimates
  • Develop labour, material, equipment, subcontractor, indirect cost, productivity, and resource calculations
  • Prepare estimate summaries, cost breakdown structures, and pricing schedules
  • Support bid pricing strategies through cost analysis, benchmarking, and collaboration with operations teams
  • Partner with Supply Chain on bidder lists, procurement strategies, and subcontractor and supplier bid packages
  • Analyze quote coverage, exclusions, qualifications, commercial terms, and scope alignment
  • Level and compare bids, identify pricing gaps or overlaps, and support award recommendations
  • Maintain current cost data, historical pricing, productivity benchmarks, and regional market intelligence
  • Identify cost, schedule, scope, logistics, market, productivity, and commercial risks and opportunities
  • Support risk reviews and recommend contingency and escalation allowances
  • Review tender and contract requirements for cost implications, including bonds, insurance, taxes, duties, and commercial terms
  • Develop bid assumptions, qualifications, exclusions, pricing schedules, tender submissions, and executive approval materials
  • Participate in estimate reviews, pricing presentations, post-bid clarifications, and negotiations
  • Maintain an auditable estimate file with source documents, quotations, calculations, approvals, and revision history
  • Provide awarded-project handover to delivery teams
  • Support estimate reconciliation, lessons learned, change estimates, cost forecasting, and commercial analysis
  • Help improve estimating procedures, templates, databases, tools, and standard work practices

Requirements

  • Diploma or degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, Engineering Technology, Building Science, Architecture, or a related discipline
  • Five or more years of progressive experience in construction estimating, quantity surveying, preconstruction, or commercial construction
  • Demonstrated experience completing quantity takeoffs, detailed estimates, quote evaluations, and tender submissions
  • Advanced ability to interpret drawings, specifications, tender documents, and contracts
  • Strong understanding of construction costs, productivity, procurement, subcontracting, and commercial risk
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with estimating or takeoff software
  • Strong communication, negotiation, organisation, and stakeholder-management skills
  • This is a Hybrid position based in Calgary

Benefits

  • Meaningful work contributing to infrastructure, defence, facilities management, and project delivery
  • Collaboration with people committed to safety, innovation, operational excellence, and disciplined execution

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Location requirements

HybridCalgaryCanada

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