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- Develops and/or reviews technical specifications for new work as well as technical requirements for change orders to current contracts.
- Develops and/or reviews cost estimates for Construction Contracts, modifications, feasibility studies, planning studies and maintains current working estimates for projects.
- Writes scopes of work for specification and cost estimating portions of documents prepared by Architect-Engineers.
- Prepares work effort estimates for work assigned to Architect-Engineers.
- Reviews contract documents (i.e., drawings and specifications as a whole) for completeness and compatibility as well as for conformance to established standards.
- Renders technical advice to Section Chief, Branch Chief, other District personnel, and with architect-engineer (AE) firms where applicable, in order to establish basic policies and procedures on specification and cost engineering matters.
- Corresponds with higher authority and others on matters concerning explanations and interpretations of specifications and cost estimates, and initiates recommendations for revisions to work.
- In the absence of the Section Chief, rotates with other senior specialists in the section as Acting Section Chief, assuming delegated supervisory Section management functions.