Key Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Disseminate Operating Procedures for estimating activities and ensure implementation
- Standardise the estimating delivery of the projects, tools, templates, filing structures, so that a Jacobs Standard becomes the norm across the operation
- Develop and implement estimate plans for projects
- Compile project estimates in accordance with the approved estimate plans and standard operating procedures
- Complete estimate risk analysis and contingency calculations
- Present and review estimates with project team and senior management
- Present and review estimates with clients
- Consolidation of benchmark information in a centralised and traceable location to ensure that all project learnings are captured and incorporated and project commencement and completion
- Take the lead in Value Engineering and Risk Workshopping
- Support and propagate Capital Cost Trending across projects
- Support and propagate Jacobs Value-Plus programme
- Support and propagate Jacobs Sustainability-Plus programme
- Ensure that systems are in place and effective, and that all estimating requirements of Project Management, and the Client are being satisfied.
- Strive to improve templates and processes for estimate delivery, leveraging the IT tools available such as Cost-x, Navisworks, excel and other tools to improve the productive delivery of the estimating function.
Overall expectations:
- Delivery of a high-quality, accurate, transparent and timely estimating function for projects.
- Actively cooperate with members of the Project & Operations Management team
- Make a particular point of establishing a mutually respectful relationship with key client personnel with whom you interact
- Meet commitments made to the operations, individually or as a team, to complete work by certain dates or within agreed effort hour or cost budgets
- Continually look for ways to improve our work processes
- Analyse outside commercial approaches and information for best practices
- Be positive and respectful in your discussions with clients and Jacobs
- BSc or MSc in a recognised Industry field (Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or Engineering)
- Chartered Membership of Engineers Ireland, SCSI or equivalent is an advantage
- This position requires extensive experience in cost engineering, quantity surveying or estimating fields. This should include experience on a project construction site and experience in a related industrial sector.
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