Estimating Engineer, Mechanical

1 week ago

Detroit, United States The Christman Company Full time

Build More with Your Career at Christman

Are you interested in becoming an employee-owner with an industry leader that will Build More opportunities in your professional career? If so, Christman could be the place for you The Christman Company is looking for an Estimating Engineer candidate with a heavy focus in mechanical systems in the greater southeast Michigan region.

As an Estimating Engineer, you will be involved in projecting estimated costs of upcoming projects, aiding other members of the Project Planning team in the preparation of cost estimates by preparing quantity take-offs, and assisting in developing unit pricing.


What You Will Do:

As an Estimating Engineer, you play a crucial part of the preconstruction team. Primary daily responsibilities of this role include, but not limited to:

  • Read and interpret construction drawings and specifications at various stages of design including Concept, Schematic Design, Design Development, and Construction Documents.
  • Prepares detailed estimates for various project types.
  • Develops and organizes Quantity Take Offs for ease of audit.
  • Competencies in architectural interiors estimating.
  • Demonstrates emerging competencies in civil and structural estimating.
  • Ability to interact with trade contractors for pricing input.
  • Review estimates to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with defined scope of work.
  • Interact with multiple organizations to review, discuss project scope and estimate basis, and consult on Company estimating methods/procedures.
  • Document management and organization.
  • Prepares notes and meeting minutes.
  • Engineer and coordinate with teammates on Company estimating methods and preparation directions.

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

Required Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or related job field.
  • Minimum one (1) year of work experience in the construction industry; preference for candidates with estimating experience.
  • OR Equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

  • The ability to contribute as a member of a team and help others succeed is very important for success at Christman. Planning successful projects is done best when there is a high-performance project team assisting our clients in making critical design decisions. Attributes include being self-motivated; a problem solver; creative thinking; and having a comfort level of presenting concepts and ideas.
  • Well organized, excellent communication, and negotiation abilities.
  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Knowledge of building construction, materials, systems, market conditions, and trade practices.
  • Must have the conceptual ability to work with minimum information and quickly develop an understanding of the owner and/or architect's requirements.
  • Complete knowledge of the estimating documents and the ability to provide accurate qualitative and quantitative analysis of the documents.
  • Familiarity with construction project management software.
  • Strong computer knowledge in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Why Christman?

Here at Christman, everyone is an owner. Through our employee stock ownership plan, each employee-owner shares in the collective success and wealth of our nationally recognized company and is eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more.

We're a top 100-ranked ENR General Contractor that has been building since 1894. Learn more about how you can grow as a Christman Expert, Leader and Partner and build more with us.

Work Environment and Physical Demands: This position will be conducted in a temperature-controlled professional office environment, with moderate noise. The role will routinely use standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, and file cabinets. While performing the duties of this role, the employee is regularly required to talk, listen sit, walk, reach, kneel, stoop, crouch, and use hands and fingers to handle or feel and to operate a computer keyboard and phone while maintaining visual acuity. The employee may occasionally be required to lift and or carry lightweight (under 20 pounds) objects. The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Notice to Recruiting Agencies (Unsolicited Resumes): The Christman Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our applicant tracking system, website, or to any Christman employee/affiliates. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Christman employees or its' affiliates will be considered property of The Christman Company and will be processed accordingly. Christman will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume without an executed agreement and assigned to a specific search.

The Christman family of companies is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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