Senior Cost Estimator – Public & Private Sector – East Coast

Location: East Coast operations (hybrid)

Compensation: Competitive, discussed at briefing

The Opportunity

HeatherDaniel International (HDi), a construction recruitment specialist, is representing a premier national cost management and project controls consultancy that needs a detail-oriented Senior Estimator for its East Coast operations. This mid-level, hybrid position focuses on preparing precise material, labour and pre-bid cost estimates across complex public and private sector architectural and engineering design projects.

The role sits between conceptual design and executable construction documents, with direct mentorship from senior project leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Estimate development: Analyse construction drawings, specifications and project documentation to compile detailed material, labour and time estimates across design phases.
• Cost tracking: Evaluate cost-effectiveness throughout the project life-cycle by tracking baseline estimates against actual performance data and market shifts.
• Stakeholder coordination: Collaborate with design teams, specialised trade consultants, vendors and clients to formulate estimates, resolve scope gaps and refine project budgets.
• Risk: Collect cost data from external subcontractor networks and internal historical databases to isolate project risks early.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture or a related technical discipline.
• Experience: Demonstrated professional estimating experience within architectural, engineering or project-control environments (including formal internship or associate-level roles).
• Software: Practical familiarity with digital takeoff and cost-database software (for example On-Screen Takeoff, e-Takeoff, MII, Sage Estimating, or equivalent tools).
• Technical skills: High proficiency in MS Excel for multi-variable data analysis, quantitative modelling and reporting.
• Working pattern: Mid-level hybrid seat on the East Coast.

Compensation & Benefits

• A competitive package, covered in the briefing call.

Next Step

Interviews are being arranged now.

Why candidates choose HDi

We start with you, not with a requisition to fill. The people we place today are often the clients who hire us tomorrow. That only works if we treat the first conversation with care.

We know what a Quantity Surveyor is. We work in verticals — cost, project advisory, claims and dispute, built-environment leadership, and data center and mission-critical programmes — not as a generalist shop that learns your job from a Wikipedia page.

We are honest about salary and fit, even when the answer is no. We do not mailshot your curriculum vitae. We do not share it without your consent. That promise is written in full on our Candidate Charter.

We stay with you from the first call through interview, offer, resignation and start.

A major statewide consultancy in the United States, headquartered in New York, has hired us on a retainer.

We are working with a major international consultancy and have placed nearly forty people with them this year.

Our Candidate Charter: You are a person, not a placement. We are honest on salary and fit. Your curriculum vitae is never shared without your consent. We reply, even when there is no update. We stay with you through the whole move.

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