Mechanical Estimator

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Mining and Metals:

Increasing production of critical minerals provides key components of clean energy technologies, from wind turbines to batteries. This shift to clean energy—and the need for commodities—is critical to underpinning the energy transition. At Bechtel, our teams extract these vital resources to support net zero in a way which is more sustainable than ever before.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will provide technical guidance to promote consistency across projects, customers, and business lines. You will provide detailed review and support to capital cost estimates, cash flow, working capital assessments, and to the preparation of estimate documentation. Your recommendations ensure accurate cost estimations and will be essential in driving project profitability and success. 

"This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership”.

Major Responsibilities:

• Conducting capital cost estimates. 
• Reviewing design scope criteria and developing quantities for undefined scope assumptions in coordination with other stakeholders/departments. 
• Participating in establishing pricing structures to be applied to quantities for estimates.
• Conducting detail pricing for non-manual labor service using functional staffing and other direct cost (ODC) inputs.
• Developing pricing/rates to apply to non-manual staffing in support of project-specific requirements.
• Preparing estimate basis and assumption documentation for their area of responsibility in support of overall estimate development. 
• Supporting complex order of magnitude (OOM) estimates.
• Preparing cost studies, trend estimates, and life cycle cost estimates in specialized areas or in specialized discipline area.
• Identifying risk items and assigns risk levels to portions of the project work and identifies measures to mitigate risk in area of responsibility.
• Interfacing with designated management personnel on specific sections of estimate presentations. 

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10  years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to work in a team.
• Adaptability.
• Ability to manage deadlines and times.
• Previous experience in forming estimates, profession according to the discipline of estimates (engineering).

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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