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Cost Estimators
Also called: Construction Estimator, Cost Analyst, Cost Estimator
Career Cluster: Architecture & Construction
Also called: Construction Estimator, Cost Analyst, Cost Estimator
Career Cluster: Architecture & Construction
What they do:
Prepare cost estimates for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services to aid management in bidding on or determining price of product or service. May specialize according to particular service performed or type of product manufactured.
Prepare cost estimates for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services to aid management in bidding on or determining price of product or service. May specialize according to particular service performed or type of product manufactured.
On the job, you would:
- Analyze blueprints and other documentation to prepare time, cost, materials, and labor estimates.
- Confer with engineers, architects, owners, contractors, and subcontractors on changes and adjustments to cost estimates.
- Collect historical cost data to estimate costs for current or future products.
KNOWLEDGEEngineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
- product and service development
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- English language
- accounting and economics
- management
SKILLSBasic Skills
- reading work related information
- using math to solve problems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
ABILITIESMath
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
PERSONALITYPeople interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Cautiousness
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Perseverance
- Self-Confidence
TECHNOLOGYYou might use software like this on the job:
Project management software
- Microsoft Project
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
- CPR Visual Estimator
- Primavera Cost Management
- Microsoft OneNote
- Microsoft Word
EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree usually needed SEARCH ALL PROGRAMS & MAJORS SEARCH COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
JOB OUTLOOK
New job opportunities are less likely in the future.
Salary: High: $128,640.00
Median: $77,070.00
Low: $46,330.00
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