Key Responsibilities
Prepares detailed cost estimates and takeoffs for prefabricated components, systems, and assemblies based on design documents and production data, manufacturing inputs, material usage, labor projections, and relevant market conditions, and contributes sections of conceptual, schematic, and detailed budgets specific to prefabrication scopes.
Reviews project scope, drawings, and fabrication models to ensure completeness, accuracy, and alignment with production capabilities, and identifies risks and uncertainties related to tolerances, staging, lifting, transportation, and field tie-ins for incorporation into estimating assumptions.
Coordinates with production and engineering teams to validate labor, equipment, and material requirements, and works with estimators and design partners to ensure prefab pricing reflects actual means, methods, and sequencing.
Evaluates supplier and subcontractor bids for prefabricated components and services, ensuring scope and pricing alignment.
Participates in value engineering, proposing cost-effective materials, methods, and manufacturing alternatives.
Supports the creation and maintenance of historical cost data and pricing benchmarks specific to prefabrication operations.
Collaborates with production controls and process engineering to incorporate production rates into estimates and supports project handoff by preparing budget load information and procurement recommendations, and provides guidance to Senior Preconstruction Engineers as they develop estimating capability.
Education Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.
Work Experience
4–6 years of experience in estimating, cost analysis, or preconstruction for prefabrication, modular, or construction projects required.
Certifications and Licenses
None required.
A strong passion for and commitment to estimating as a long-term career
Some PM and broader construction experience as a plus
Strong technical and software skills
Interest in helping develop and implement next-generation estimating processes and technologies
This position is located in Phoenix, AZ.
Anticipated starting pay range: 99-140K.
DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.
Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.
Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers.
