Senior Manager, Estimating

Position Summary

The Sr. Manager, Estimating leads the team responsible for developing accurate, competitive estimates for utility‑scale solar and energy projects. This leader is accountable for estimating quality, team performance, and effective collaboration throughout the preconstruction lifecycle. While this position directly leads the civil estimating team, the successful candidate is not required to come from a strictly civil estimating background and will be positioned to lead estimating teams beyond civil‑specific estimating.

The ideal candidate brings broad solar estimating experience, strong leadership capabilities, and strong working knowledge of how civil scope integrates with engineering, procurement, construction, and project execution strategy.

• Reports to: Director of Estimating
• Directly manages: Civil Estimating team (Managers, Leads, Project Engineers)

• Lead and develop estimating professionals across multiple experience levels; set expectations and build a high‑performance culture
• Coach, mentor, and grow estimator capability across levels; increase capacity strength through development and process improvement
• Own performance management and support hiring, interviewing, vetting, and onboarding
• Manage team resource planning and allocation to meet bid schedules and program needs

• Contribute and attend as a member of the Estimating Leadership Team driving operational strategy and execution
• Provide leadership and oversight for estimate development for utility‑scale solar and energy projects, with primary responsibility for civil estimating outcomes
• Coordinate with Civil Operations team for subcontractor and project execution strategies.
• Lead estimate reviews and drive risk/opportunity identification and resolution during the bid process
• Review pricing strategy, assumptions, qualifications, alternates, and basis‑of‑bid decisions
• Oversee bid schedules, assumptions, and durations; validate schedule inputs and escalations of conflicts or delays that create bid risk
• Support direction on scope strategy and bid positioning

• Oversee civil estimating execution across the bid lifecycle, including:
  • RFP document review
  • Develop, with support from civil operations, project schedule, objectives, and strategies
  • Quantity takeoffs and basis‑of‑quantity documentation
  • Subcontractor pricing reviews and descope meetings
  • Bid leveling and scope alignment
  • Bid summaries and turnover deliverables
• Provide oversight of RFIs, ensuring quality and timely responses
• Review bid summaries and key meeting documentation for accuracy and completeness
• Champion continuous improvement; incorporate lessons learned into templates, standard work, and team training

• Partner with Operations to strengthen estimating‑to‑operations handover and buyout readiness, ensuring turnover deliverables meet civil requirements before submission
• Coordinate with Engineering, Supply Chain, Civil Operations, and Preconstruction leadership to align scope, assumptions, and execution strategy and to resolve scope gaps

• Maintain strategic subcontractor/vendor relationships and guide subcontractor pricing strategy, site sequencing, scheduling assumptions, and self‑perform considerations alongside Operations
• Engage in key introductions and escalations when needed to protect bid competitiveness and project outcomes

• Serve as a key stakeholder for estimating systems and tools modernization
• Support process design, adoption, and feedback loops for estimating tools and workflow improvements
• Lead the estimating team through scaling and system implementation toward the future state

• Demonstrated leadership experience managing estimating, preconstruction, or project teams and developing talent
• Strong utility‑scale solar estimating experience required (EPC, GC, developer)
• Strong working knowledge of civil estimating as it relates to solar (e.g., sitework/earthwork, roads, drainage, fencing,…