Sr Electrical, Mechanical & Piping Estimator, Sentinel

Requisition ID: 274676 

•  Relocation Authorized: National - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Ogden, UT 

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.

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Project Overview

Bechtel is the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) partner on the Northrop Grumman team to deliver the Sentinel Program, which is modernizing the ground-based leg of the U.S. nuclear deterrent triad, including intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems and launch infrastructure. Bechtel’s scope of service in Sentinel’s current Engineering & Manufacturing Development phase focuses on the ground infrastructure component of the program. 

 

A major contractor for the United States and allied governments, Bechtel has handled such efforts as chemical weapons demilitarization projects, missile-defense, infrastructure, base operations, procurement and project management, and restoration and recovery spanning half a century. We use our expertise to help our customers securely and effectively transform mission delivery.

 

We invite you to join our team for this very interesting opportunity! 

 

Position Summary

Prepares, reviews, and presents mechanical, electrical, and piping discipline estimates for project activities. Provides estimating assistance and guidance, develops conceptual estimates, and performs cost analysis. Responsible for assisting in the development of estimators, developing and updating historical databases. Provides direction to others on project/program level tasks.

 

This position is in our Ogden, Utah office.

 

Responsibilities

The following duties are performed with respect to estimate execution, the process of conducting an evaluation of services and/or capital cost elements of the project or effort as defined by an agreed-upon scope that will be used to make key management decisions:

• Prepares and reviews capital cost estimates. Develops productivity analyses of construction operations and verifies results by resource and crew analysis of work operations by craft. 
• Works with other disciplines and functions to collect all necessary data on scope and quantities to prepare accurate estimates in specialty discipline areas.
• Participates in establishing pricing structures to be applied to quantities for estimates. Ensures that estimates are in line with market trends and pricing.
• Manages variations and changes to the base estimate and ensures that implications of changes are evaluated before finalizing solutions.
• Influences aspects of the specification in the interests of cost rationalization.

 

The following duties are performed with respect to foundation development, the process of establishing and maintaining technical capabilities for personnel, cost databases and tools:

• Takes ownership of sections of the estimating database(s) summarizing, updating, and maintaining databases for discipline estimates and historical cost data. 
• Supports the development of estimating standards and procedures.
• Generates and retrieves reports in the appropriate software applications, understands and summarizes the data for presentation within management reviews. 

 

The following duties are performed with respect to project/site management support, the process of providing support services in the form of cost analysis and estimate reviews in addition to estimate-to-budget conversions:

• Prepares cost studies utilizing historical data, statistical analysis and cost and quantity comparisons. Innovates new techniques as required.
• Assists project in identifying scope deviations.
• Analyzes cost/price data from suppliers/subcontractors and direct work with the ability to generate comparative data (historical costs and other metrics) as part of cos