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Location
Fort Worth, TX
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Job overview

Jacobs seeks a Senior Estimator to support transportation and transit projects across the country, with project sizes ranging from $5 million to $10 billion. The role develops capital cost estimates, reviews contractor proposals and change orders, and presents costs to clients. It is open to any Jacobs office location in the Western United States.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Cost EstimatingTransportation ProjectsMS OfficeHCSS HeavyBidBluebeam

Qualifications

Progressive Cost Estimating Experience

Full job description

We’re seeking a Senior Estimator with estimating experience ranging in size from $5M-$10B to support our projects and clients across the country. The types of projects include heavy civil, highway, bridge, transit, rail, airports, and urban development.

This role will review design documents, proposals, specifications, drawings, attend design development meetings and assess the risk and cost impacts required to develop the estimates.

You will work with a knowledgeable and supportive team as you prepare estimates by reviewing and comprehending scope documents, developing project work breakdown structures, calculating complete scope of work take-offs, assist contracts staff with statements of work for subcontractors and vendors, apply construction means and methods, calculate indirect field and owner’s costs, and meeting necessary deadlines.

At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Project Services teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

This position is open to any of Jacobs’ office locations in the Western region of the United States.

Responsibilities include:

Develop capital cost estimates for transportation/transit projects.

Review contractor proposals for various procurement types.

Review and validate change orders

Interface with external clients in the presentation of capital costs.

Maintain organized and detailed files, project records and logs.

Attend project meetings as required

Progressive and successful cost estimating experience in transportation projects

Proficient use of MS Office products, HCSS (HeavyBid) estimating software and BlueBeam

Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,601 open Estimator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Texas median$98–158K/yr66 salary ranges
  • US median$24–30/hr116 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 206 open Estimator jobs in Texas and 2,601 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
Estimator postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (2,102 postings).
Education
388 of the 2,601 open Estimator jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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