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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Responsible to develop and provide custom and standardized material estimates for advanced residential, multi-family, agricultural and light commercial projects from construction plans, blueprints, or computer aided drawings. Using specialized software for producing EWP construction plans.Work with local Co-op’s and internal stakeholders throughout the tendering process managing estimating and design, schedules, tasks, processes, files, data, and stakeholder communications.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Responsible for creating a complete and accurate scope of work, producing accurate take-offs and compiling all information required to produce a finalized estimate prior to tender. • Planning and leading the estimating process, with input from vendors and internal managers to meet submission requirements. • Tracking success rates of various types of estimates. • Sending RFI, RFQ and submittals to architects, clients, and suppliers. • Transition estimates into budgets, with appropriate cost coding. • Assisting in the initial planning and scheduling of projects, preparation of schedules, building BOM for ordering material. • Collaborating with clients, sales team and other contacts on estimates as required. • Developed and maintained strong relationships with employees, management teams and customers. • Maintained estimating database with current pricing and pricing risk using Planswift. • Prepared and maintained a directory of prices, suppliers, contractors, and subcontractors. • Identify and price change orders during project execution.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Identifies cost trends to assist management in cost reduction and process improvement efforts. This led to a cost reduction of 10% to 15% of the overall projects. • Manage multiple simultaneous estimation projects with consistent on-time delivery. • Work with the Engineering Department to continue to develop and standardize the capital project estimating process by improving the software templates and speeding up the estimating time. • Providing detailed conceptual estimates from pre-construction, concept design, schematic design and design development documents using Planswift and Epicor. This resulted in a clear and descriptive quote of materials reducing time spent asking questions. • Estimated residential and commercial projects varying from $5000 to over 2 Mil and over 3 Mil Lbs. of lumber products each month. • Assisted project managers in finding cost-effective solutions by proposing alternate materials and Smartframe Structures drastically reducing the time it takes from foundation to lock-up.

Alderside

• Liaised with customers, management and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions, resulting in cost effective measures to clients. • Prepare layouts and become proficient in MiTek Sapphire, Taiga SeLex, MBA, and other required engineering software. Being proficient gained the company reputation for providing quality. • Analyze building codes, by-laws, space requirements, site requirements and other technical documents and reports. By doing this, reducing errors and omissions in clients' blueprints. • Coordinate design development and/or assist in providing technical direction regarding the scope of projects, technical approach, and design criteria.

Calgary, Alberta

• Assist Design Manager in the activities of the design management team to achieve performance for quantity and quality of work. This includes mentoring Design Technicians, training, scheduling, establishing goals, and standards. Increasing company quality of services. • Increased sales and account base by offering consultation on products and services and applying customer service and upselling techniques. • Set up appointments with potential and current customers to promote new products and services. • Brought in new customers and retained base through proactive management of individual needs and development of robust design and sales solutions. • Preparing structural and non-structural wood product component designs and product placement layouts assembly for fabrication using Mitek and Javelin.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Managing the estimating and customer service team and working with the remote designers to streamline the design and estimating process. • Preparing package pricing for customers' residential projects for roof trusses and engineered wood products like I joists, open web joists and engineered beams. • Involved in sales, estimating and design of mid to multi-level residential, commercial, and private projects. • Quick pricing projects using Excel and other estimating tools. • Met with new & existing clients and determined their requirements. • Sending quotes and following up with customers. • Receiving and processing orders.

Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

• Designing Engineered floor joists, roof trusses and wall panels on a daily basis using Mitek, Boise and Sema software. • Discussing changes and corrections with engineers, architects, and contractors prior to and during construction. • Providing backup assistance to builders by answering general questions and site visits. • Prepared drawing, sketches, proposals, and quotations for clients.

Iaşi, Romania

• Remote Structural design for Canada using Mitek 20/20 and AutoCAD. • Generate manufacturing cut lists and site construction layouts. • Designing Engineered Roof Trusses following Canadian building Codes Standards. • Reading and interpreting blueprints in French. • Offering technical support and training for other colleagues.

Civil Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology/Technician

Bachelor, Civil Engineering And Technology Of Construction, Bachelor In Civil Engineering