Industrial/Commercial Estimator

Position Purpose: Lead the development of technical scope of work and independently develop cost estimates and resource requirements for industrial and commercial electrical construction projects Nationwide. 

Essential Responsibilities

• Assist with the request for proposal preparation and evaluations, project specifications, and pricing schedules
• Prepare pre-approval project estimates based on limited information and general scopes of work, often lacking specific precedence
• Assist project team in scoping of projects for engineering, construction, and contractual requirements
• Develop detailed post-approval project estimates based on company standards and site-specific facility drawings
• Perform material take-offs and cost analyses to support estimates
• Assist with the development of pricing schedules and weighting criteria for proposal evaluations
• Assist with the development and maintenance of items and assemblies in estimating software
• Provide expert judgment of costs to support competitive bid and negotiated contracts
• Assist with the development of standardized historical cost databases and application tools to aid future estimates
• Provide oversight, coordination, management support and technical expertise for all aspects of electrical construction projects in the Industrial and Commercial markets
• Review plans, specifications, drawings to determine the cost of the project
• Analyze time, equipment, tooling, material and manpower requirements for each project
• Perform material takeoffs and develop a written estimate of cost to perform the work according to the specifications
• Provide Operations with a detailed cost estimate, corresponding proposal letter and bid form breakout for transition of ownership of the project
• Interface with customers, vendors and subcontractors to determine the cost of the project
• Gather information to determine subcontractor and vendor suitability and aggressively gain the best pricing
• Exercise significant independent discretion in developing project estimates and applying “mark-up" and “labor factors"
• Visit customer field locations as required to ascertain project conditions
• Attend pre and post bid meetings as required and be able to effectively present information to clients to sell our projects
• Select pool of potential subcontractors and equipment vendors to solicit their proposals
• Analyze special safety and code requirements on all projects
• Work as part of an integrated Operations and Estimating team in acquiring projects
• Properly turns over bid documents to Operations in a timely manner 

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