Position Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead electrical construction estimates, including conceptual budgets, design-assist estimates, and fully designed competitive bids.
• Review drawings, specifications, addenda, schedules, and bid requirements to define scope and identify gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Perform and review detailed quantity takeoffs for electrical systems and related infrastructure.
• Develop labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, and indirect costs based on project requirements and site conditions.
• Evaluate labor productivity, staffing, phasing, overtime, logistics, and schedule impacts with operations input.
• Obtain and evaluate vendor and subcontractor quotes for scope coverage, pricing, lead times, and compliance.
• Prepare proposals with clear inclusions, exclusions, clarifications, alternates, and pricing breakouts.
• Present scope, assumptions, major cost drivers, and project risks during internal estimate reviews.
• Support customer scope reviews, interviews, negotiations, and value-engineering discussions.
• Coordinate estimating assignments, review supporting estimators’ work, and maintain accurate estimate files and revisions.
• Lead estimating turnover to operations, communicating estimate basis, commitments, scope boundaries, and risks.
• Mentor junior estimators and promote consistent estimating standards and processes.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5- 7 plus years of electrical construction estimating experience, including independent responsibility for complex estimates.
• Strong knowledge of electrical construction methods, power distribution, lighting and controls, grounding, and electrical infrastructure.
• Ability to interpret electrical drawings, specifications, one-line diagrams, and project schedules.
• Demonstrated ability to develop labor units, assess productivity, and prepare complete project pricing.
• Proficiency with electrical estimating software, digital takeoff tools, and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Clear communication skills and experience working with general contractors, vendors, subcontractors, and operations teams.
• Ability to explain and defend estimating assumptions, scope decisions, and pricing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience estimating large commercial, industrial, mission-critical, or data center projects.
• Design-build, design-assist, and conceptual estimating experience.
• Electrical field experience or a journeyman electrician background.
• Experience with Accubid or Accubid Anywhere.
• Degree in construction management, electrical engineering, or a related field; equivalent industry experience also valued.