Data Center Construction Estimator

Company: INTUVA by PTS Data Center Solutions

Location: Oakland, NJ

Employment Type: Full-Time

Reports To: VP of Construction

INTUVA by PTS Data Center Solutions delivers critical infrastructure for the digital economy. Our work is technical, fast-moving, and mission-critical — and every successful project starts with a strong estimate.

We are looking for a Data Center Construction Estimator who is ready to do more than price drawings. This role is for someone who wants ownership, visibility, and the opportunity to help shape how a growing company pursues and wins work.

Reporting directly to the VP of Construction, you will lead estimating and bidding efforts for data center and mission-critical construction projects. You will take our current estimating process, improve it, manage it, and make it your own. You will coordinate internal contributors, manage bids, work with subcontractors and vendors, and create a more scalable, accurate, and disciplined estimating function.

The right candidate is technical, organized, proactive, and commercially sharp. You understand that a great estimate is not just about cost — it is about scope, risk, strategy, accountability, and confidence in the numbers.

• Lead estimates, budgets, bid packages, and proposal inputs for data center and mission-critical construction projects.
• Review drawings, specifications, RFPs, scopes of work, narratives, and owner requirements.
• Prepare quantity takeoffs, cost estimates, bid forms, budget summaries, and executive-level estimate reviews.
• Develop conceptual, schematic, design-development, and construction-level estimates.
• Identify scope gaps, exclusions, allowances, alternates, long-lead items, and project-specific risks.
• Support go/no-go decisions, bid strategy, pricing reviews, and final recommendations with the VP of Construction.

• Take ownership of the current bidding and estimating process and turn it into a stronger, more scalable function.
• Create and maintain estimating templates, bid checklists, review standards, scope forms, and repeatable workflows.
• Bring speed, accuracy, accountability, and structure to how estimates are built and managed.
• Coordinate team members across construction, project management, procurement, finance, engineering, and operations.
• Assign responsibilities, track deliverables, and keep bid contributors accountable to deadlines.
• Lead bid meetings, working sessions, and internal reviews.
• Ensure every bid has the right scope input, assumptions, clarifications, pricing detail, and leadership review before submission.
• Solicit subcontractor and vendor pricing.
• Qualify proposals for completeness, accuracy, and scope alignment.
• Prepare bid tabs, scope comparisons, and proposal leveling.
• Identify missing scope, pricing gaps, qualifications, and procurement risks.
• Support the transition from estimate to buyout and project execution.

You will work with complex technical scopes but do not need to know everything on day one. You do need to be curious, organized, detail-driven, and comfortable in technical environments.

• Electrical & mechanical infrastructure systems
• Low-voltage and structured cabling
• Switchgear, UPS systems, generators, PDUs, and distribution equipment
• CRAC/CRAH units and cooling infrastructure
• Fire protection and life safety systems
• Controls, monitoring, and building automation
• Architectural, structural, and site-related scopes

You are someone who:

• Takes ownership without waiting for step-by-step direction.
• Brings order to fast-moving bid environments.
• Can read drawings, understand scope, and spot what is missing.
• Communicates risk, assumptions, and pricing strategy clearly.
• Can manage multiple deadlines, contributors, and priorities.
• Wants to build the estimating function, not just work inside it.
• Cares about helping the company win the right work the right way.

• 5+ years of construction estimating experience; degree preferred in related field.
• Experience with data centers, mission-critical facilities, MEP-heavy construction, commercial construction, technical…