Estimator & Senior Estimator, ICI Buildings - Permanent - 4299
About the Opportunity
Most estimating departments hire because something broke. This one is hiring because more of the work is being won before the drawings are finished.
Our client is a Vaughan-based general contractor pricing institutional, commercial, industrial and multi-unit residential buildings between $15M and $200M+. Their estimating group has been in place a long time and the core of it hasn’t turned over, which is worth saying out loud in this market. What has changed is the delivery mix. A larger share of pursuits now comes through construction management and other collaborative contracts, where the estimate is built alongside the owner and consultant team over months rather than priced against a closing date. That work takes more pre-construction capacity at two levels, so they are adding one Senior Estimator and one Estimator. Both are additions. Neither is a replacement.
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Pricing ICI buildings from $15M to $200M+: institutional, commercial, industrial, multi-unit residential. The portfolio does not repeat itself
- A real mix of hard bid and collaborative delivery, including CM and design-build, where you are inside the pursuit from early design rather than reacting to a finished set
- Working directly with the project team who will build the job. You are not passing a number over a wall to people you never speak to again
- Carrying your pursuits end to end: quantity take-off, trade scope, subcontractor coverage, constructability input, and presenting your number to leadership yourself
- A seat in the go/no-go conversation. You get a view on what gets chased, not just what gets priced
About You
The successful candidate will have the following:
Senior Estimator
- You have carried $50M+ ICI pursuits on your own from invitation to award, and you can defend every line of your number in front of an owner
- You have worked at least one model where the price was not locked at bid close: CM, IPD, design-build, or open-book target price
- You know which trades in this market can actually deliver the scope right now, not just which ones return calls
- You have brought a junior estimator along without being asked to
Estimator
- Roughly three to seven years pricing ICI buildings at a general contractor, owning take-offs and trade scope on your own packages
- You want access to the collaborative side of the work and your current seat has not given it to you
- You are comfortable arguing constructability with a project manager before the number is locked
About the Job
- Based in the Vaughan office. This estimating department works as a room, not an inbox, and that is deliberate
- A department that already works. You are being added to capacity, not brought in to repair something
- Estimating treated as a client-facing function on collaborative pursuits, not a back-office bid desk
- Continuity from estimate through construction, so you find out whether you were right
- A firm where the people making pursuit decisions are the same people accountable for how the job finishes
- Competitive base plus bonus and full benefits, calibrated to level. We will be specific about numbers on the first call rather than posting a band that fits neither seat
- Senior Estimator Salary Range: $120,000 to $160,000
- Estimator Salary Range: $105,000 to $145,000
How to Apply
Please apply by completing the application form below and submitting your résumé. You can also apply by sending your résumé directly to ScottH@ParkerHuggett.com or by contacting your Recruiter and quoting job 4299. Please note that all candidates must be legally permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this role.
We truly appreciate your interest in this opportunity. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we will only be reaching out to candidates whose experience most closely matches our partner’s needs. If we do not connect with you for this role, please know that we will gladly keep your profile in mind and reach out when other suitable opportunities arise.
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