Project Estimator

Arcadis is seeking a Project Estimator to join our team in Miami, FL.

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:

As a Project Estimator, you will have the opportunity to use your cost estimating expertise on transportation projects in the Miami, FL area. Your goal will be to support and improve project oversight to ensure successful completion of project(s); assisting Arcadis in growing our business as well as increasing your own professional value. If you possess solid technical, organizational, and communication skills; and have a proven track record we want to speak with you.

Role accountabilities:

• Independently prepare bottoms-up and top-down cost estimates from plans/drawings and documents from conceptual stage to final design/construction documents.
• Analyze subconsultant and contractor cost proposals for reasonableness.
• Analyze subconsultant and contractor change proposals for reasonableness.
• Independently perform scope, quantity and/or unit cost reconciliations.
• Assist the project management staff in the preparation of the project budget.
• Assist the project management staff with the management of project scope, budget, and schedule.
• Assist with analysis, and report on the project key performance metrics.
• Follow appropriate internal control safeguards to ensure consistent reporting of accurate information.
• Must understand construction means and methods.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 8 years of cost estimating experience

Key Attributes:

• Requires knowledge of quantity computations, unite price analyses including labor, material, equipment, overhead, and profit computations, and application of appropriate contingencies based on risk assessments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Contractor estimating experience is a plus.
• Experience preparing Design-Build project estimates.
• Experience preparing Operations and Maintenance estimates.
• Experience in USACE estimating format and deliverables.
• Experience preparing conceptual design level, and final construction estimates for complex major transportation projects
• Experience in similar roles/responsibilities on complex major transportation infrastructure program.
• Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering, Architecture or Construction Management

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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