Overview As a Senior Estimator at Stantec, you will lead multi-discipline cost estimation for buildings and facilities, coordinating across estimators, schedulers, and engineers. You'll manage estimates from a global portfolio, spanning commercial to industrial and infrastructure-adjacent facilities, ensuring quality and competitiveness. You'll guide design teams through early project milestones and contribute to risk analysis and procurement activities. This role blends technical rigor with team leadership in a dynamic, design-focused firm.
Compensation / Benefits- medical, dental, and vision plans
- wellness program
- health savings accounts
- flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) plan
- employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
Responsibilities- Supervise and coordinate development of multi-discipline cost estimates and construction schedules
- Develop detailed estimates for architectural systems, building envelope, interiors, finishes, doors/hardware, finishes, and related components
- Collaborate with other estimators to develop estimates and schedules
- Coordinate input parameters for estimates and schedules
- Validate material takeoffs and construction quantities from drawings
- Compile information from all estimating disciplines into a single estimate
- Create estimate execution plans with strategy, staffing, and timelines
- Prepare labor-force work plans and basis of cost estimate reports
- Establish site-specific estimating criteria including wage and productivity rates
- Perform quality control of construction documents and propose design improvements
- Support procurement, change and claims valuation and negotiations
- Prepare construction logistics plans and offer innovative problem-solving for estimation issues
- Interface with management and client counterparts for estimating tasks
- Identify and quantify project risks and opportunities for cost/schedule analyses
- Review design documents to identify risks and opportunities for pricing
- Coordinate constructability reviews for engineering designs
- Serve as primary cost-estimating contact for clients and stakeholders
- Maintain awareness of industry trends and incorporate lessons learned to improve estimates
Key requirements- Extensive technical knowledge of cost/estimating, construction practice, and engineering design
- Estimating buildings and facilities across multiple types (commercial, industrial, institutional, etc.)
- Strong expertise in architectural/structural scopes (steel, concrete, foundations, envelope, finishes)
- Multi-discipline estimating experience and coordination across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, and other scopes
- Advanced understanding of contract methods and estimating applications
- Experience with specialized estimating software and scheduling tools
- Field experience and preconstruction or design-phase estimating preferred
- Able to travel domestically and internationally as needed
- Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities in estimating teams
- Strong client-facing and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field
- Minimum 10 years in estimating/construction roles
- Professional certifications (asset) such as AACE, RICS, ASPE, PMI, DBIA
- leadership
- team collaboration
- client-facing communication
- InEight Estimate
- Sage Timberline Estimating
- On-Screen Take-Off
