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About the Role
Stantec is seeking a Senior Cost Advisor, Quantity Surveyor with a strong base in Civil, Structural, Architectural, within our Program Management group. This role requires excellent communication skills and a willingness to work as part of a large multidisciplinary team to successfully deliver major capital projects.
Responsibilities
- Prepare detailed quantity take-offs and bill of materials.
- Prepare and review all classes of estimates of probable costs at each design milestone on projects across North America.
- Assess merit and cost for project changes and claims and support negotiations.
- Coordinate efforts and compile information from other estimating disciplines.
- Provide innovative solutions to estimating issues and problems.
- Develop, maintain and improve procedures, databases, early phase cost models, templates and tools for cost estimating.
- Establish site specific estimating criteria including wage and person-hour productivity rates.
- Provide input and recommendations for estimating requirements relative to staffing for the full range of estimating activities.
- Perform cost risk assessment and probabilistic simulations to establish project contingency and project reserve.
- Develop cost loading for project schedule.
- Support project procurement.
- Prepare and present project cost reports to internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to and support project pursuits.
- Perform other estimating and cost management activities as required.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of costing large civil infrastructure & buildings projects.
Skills
- Costing
- Quantity Surveying
- Civil
- Structural
- Architectural
- Program Management
- Construction Management
- Estimating
- Cost Management
- Risk Assessment
- Probabilistic Simulations
- Cost Loading
- Procurement Support
- Reporting
- Communication
Location
- North America
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required.
- Actual compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location.
- Certain roles are bonus eligible.
- Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision plans
- Wellness program
- Health care spending account
- Wellness spending account
- Group registered retirement savings plan
- Employee stock purchase program
- Group tax-free savings account
- Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
- Short-term/long-term disability plans
- Emergency travel benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional membership fee coverage
- Paid time off
About the Company
- We partner with clients to provide both program management and construction management to strategize, plan, and implement projects that drive organizations forward.
- We have successfully managed thousands of projects, including hospitals, airports, university campuses, mass transit systems, water treatment facilities, mines, and wind farms.
- We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organization’s objectives.
- Join our award-winning program management team and bring transformational project solutions to life.