Cost Estimators
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.
Also called: Construction Estimator, Cost Estimator, Estimator, Estimator Project Manager
Knowledge:
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- building and construction
Skills:
- using math to solve problems
- reading work related information
People and Technology Systems
- 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
Abilites:
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Thinking
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Persistence
- Stress Tolerance
Technology:
Project management software
- Microsoft Project
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
- Choice Job Cost
- Intuit QuickBooks
Financial analysis software
- CPR Visual Estimator
- IBM Costimater
