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Senior Estimator/Scheduler -

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Estimator/Scheduler to be located in any of our following offices:

Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Tacoma, Washington; Irvine, California; Tampa, Florida; Raleigh, North Carolina; Houston, Texas

The successful candidate will be involved in projects with our Ports and Maritime Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges. Our Maritime group comprises of highly motivated analysts, planners, and maritime civil and structural engineers, working in several key locations across the US and internationally. Major clients are port authorities, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, terminal operators, contractors, private entities, and municipalities. Our strength is derived from the diversity of our marine-related work and our staff.

For over 90-years WSP has been a leader in waterfront design, for the U.S. Navy, and worldwide. The WSP Maritime group is a dynamic and energetic group with strong work ethics and a great culture of collaboration and camaraderie. You would be joining the largest and best waterfront/marine design group in the country. The projects are diverse in nature, interesting, and challenging.

The projects are diverse in nature, interesting, and challenging. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for Maritime projects or groups of smaller capital projects, including the management of task leaders, schedules, budgets, and client expectations. You will participate in the formulation and presentation of technical concepts in proposal development, during the design phase, and for client presentations. Additionally, you will be engaged in the growth and development of our team by providing mentorship, technical guidance, and participation in the hiring and evaluation of junior staff. As a successful candidate, you will have the opportunity to take control of your own career path. This position is an excellent opportunity to continue to enhance your design skills, build relationships within WSP, as well as expand your experience with a diverse offering of clients around the region, and support of national and worldwide projects.

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our future-focused business objectives. Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build communities and expand our skylines. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

Your Impact

Estimating Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare work to be estimated by gathering drawings, specifications, and related documents for various disciplines.

• Identify labor, material, and time requirements by studying criteria, drawings, specifications, and other related documents.

• Compute costs by analyzing labor, material, and time requirements.

• Resolve discrepancies by collecting and analyzing information.

• Present prepared estimate by assembling and displaying numerical and descriptive information.

• Prepare special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.

• Maintain cost database by entering and backing up data.

• Maintain technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing technical publications.

• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing tasks on-time and meeting scope expectations

• Attend client meetings and contract negotiations in-person at client's office

Scheduling Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain integrated baseline lifecycle schedules.

• Regularly update, provide progress reports, and publication of the master schedule.

• Identify and communicate variances from the original plan and baseline snapshots.

• Evaluate schedule progress, performance, and identify developing problem areas.

• Process project changes into baseline and live schedules.

• Analyze critical path and constraints to determine the effect of progress changes to schedule and recommend solutions to ensure baseline key milestones are achieved.

• Support administration functions to ensure EPPM data, global code fields, baseline copies and data interface to other applications are maintained properly.

• Assist with the facilitation of project review meetings and actively interact with project team members.

• Assist and interact with team members to drive out continual improvement of schedule, project controls metrics, and other performance indicators.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of related experience in heavy civil/structural estimating and scheduling

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent technical field preferred.

• Strong analytical/problem solving skills, creative thinker.

• Strong communication skills.

• Strong understanding of construction processes

• The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity and a desire to foster teamwork.

• Ability to demonstrate progressively increasing responsibility in estimating, working effectively with minimal supervision.

• Ability to read construction plans to develop cost estimates and construction schedules

• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures

• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

Minimum Estimating Qualifications:

• Demonstrated skill/experience in development of Conceptual through Bid Document crew-based or unit price cost estimates

• Strong knowledge of On-Screen Takeoff or Bluebeam software and MS Office applications.

• Experience in developing, reviewing, and negotiating force account estimates

• Working knowledge in use of MII (Micro-Computer Aided Cost Estimating System/MCASES - Second Generation).

Preferred Estimating Qualifications:

• PMP, PMI-SP or AACE certificate is preferred.

• Working knowledge in use of HCSS HeavyBid, Sage Timberline, and/or other estimating software applications

• Construction contractor estimating experience

Minimum Scheduling Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6 and EPPM application.

• Experience in MS Power BI Service, Oracle BI or other data analytics platforms.

• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future

Preferred Scheduling Qualifications:

• Experience using Microsoft Project and/or PMA Technologies NetPoint®

• Experience with Atlassian tools such as Confluence and JIRA.

• Construction contractor estimating experience

This position is subject to and contingent upon client approval of candidates put forth for consideration by WSP.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Compensation and Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

Expected Salary: $138,400-198,290

WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.