After graduating from the University of Manitoba in 2004 with Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in Finance, Ben briefly worked in the financial services industry before making the switch to the construction industry. Over his career, Ben has held various estimating, project management and leadership roles with local general contracting firms on a wide variety of projects with values of up to $400,000,000. In 2020 the opportunity came to join the family business Postma Consulting, and Ben jumped at the opportunity.
At Postma Consulting Ben is the President providing overall corporate leadership and strategy and leads the Cost Management group. Ben became a Professional Quantity Surveyor in 2015, and has expertise in cost planning, procurement, risk management, design management, constructability review, value engineering, market analysis, conceptual estimating, cost forecasting, cost control and life cycle costing.