Senior Electrical Estimator

Description At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
What is our impact on the world?

Watch Our Story:' ' Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabling innovation.

As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll help design the critical infrastructure that supports the digital age and shapes the spaces where people work, connect, and thrive. From high-performance data centers driving the future of AI to dynamic commercial environments, your work will directly support technological advancement, sustainability, and human experience. We bring together mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering experts to solve complex design challenges with precision, creativity, and collaboration.

Whether you're optimizing energy efficiency, integrating resilient systems, or engineering the backbone of next-generation facilities, your contributions will help define the future of the built environment. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead innovation, engineer impact, and build a legacy of  the role of Senior Electrical Estimator, we'll count on you to:
Perform general or discipline cost estimating generating capital cost and/or services estimates; data analysis identifying problems and make recommendations; and control activities for project and/or proposal efforts

Support estimate reporting and reviews

Provide technical direction to assigned personnel when delegated

Execute simultaneous tasks within broadly defined parameters

Prepare services, distributable, contractor indirect and/or capital cost estimates in specialized discipline areas using current techniques and market pricing

Prepare cost/schedule products for proposals or contract negotiations

Provide input on the level of effort required (cost/job hours) through coordination with functions and/or vendors, and consolidate input for costing

Perform and review methodology for quantity takeoffs from design drawings for multidiscipline sections and customize forms to reflect best effort

Prepare detail pricing field office non-manual labor/other direct costs (ODC) and home office labor/ODCsProduce capital costs estimate using a crew-based approach including formation of crews from multiple disciplines

Provide detail pricing for manual labor rates

Develop unit rates for discipline specific items

Assist in developing conceptual quantities to supplement partial design-build design documents

Prepare basis and assumption documentation denoting rationale, inclusions and exclusions

Calculate fee based on established fee model

Quantify and spread escalation based on project schedule and estimated costs

Develop and perform analysis of project cash models and the corresponding time value of money as the cost of working capital correlating scheduled activities and cost Generate payment schedules

Support risk analysis assessment by identifying areas of risk Support contingency efforts as directed

Assist in developing unit staffing, job hour and pricing data for a specific discipline or other specialty, including estimating parameters, factors, indices, and craft distribution reference data based on analysis of HDR and industry experience

Perform data…