Senior Electrical Estimator - Remote Transit Expert

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Senior Electrical Estimator to support WMATA capital projects as part of the owner’s project controls and estimating team. The successful candidate will serve as an electrical estimating subject matter expert and independently prepare, review, reconcile, and defend cost estimates for transit facilities and rail systems from early concept through construction and change control. This is a remote position with some travel.

This role requires substantial electrical construction knowledge, disciplined basis-of-estimate documentation, and the ability to evaluate incomplete design information while clearly identifying assumptions, exclusions, risks, and required clarifications.

Your Impact

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop independent conceptual, planning, design-stage, bid, issued-for-construction, change-order, and construction cost estimates for electrical and related systems.
• Perform quantity takeoffs and develop labor, material, equipment, subcontract, testing, commissioning, temporary-work, escalation, contingency, markup, and indirect-cost components.
• Prepare crew-based and unit-price estimates using drawings, specifications, narratives, site information, as-built records, technical requirements, vendor quotations, and stakeholder input.
• Evaluate constructability, phasing, outages, limited work windows, access restrictions, maintenance of operations, testing, commissioning, and interfaces with civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, rail, and systems work.
• Prepare basis-of-estimate narratives, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, estimate classifications, cost risks, and reconciliation documentation.
• Review consultant, contractor, and peer estimates for scope completeness, quantity accuracy, labor productivity, pricing, markups, escalation, contingency, and compliance with estimate requirements.
• Develop and maintain historical cost data, benchmarks, bid tabs, vendor quotations, labor rates, productivity factors, and estimate audit trails.
• Lead estimate reviews and cost reconciliation meetings and explain estimate methodology and major cost drivers to project managers, engineers, procurement staff, change-control personnel, and senior leadership.
• Identify missing or conflicting design information and prepare requests for information and estimating clarifications.
• Provide technical direction, workload coordination, mentoring, and quality-control support to electrical estimators and multidisciplinary estimating teams.
• Comply with WMATA, WSP, project controls, document-control, safety, ethics, and confidentiality requirements.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or a closely related discipline; or an equivalent combination of relevant education, electrical trade training, and directly applicable electrical estimating experience.
• Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible electrical construction estimating experience, including at least 5 years estimating major transit, rail, utility, transportation, industrial, or similarly complex public infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience as an electrical estimator. General building, civil, architectural, structural, or mechanical estimating experience alone does not satisfy this requirement.
• Demonstrated ability to independently develop detailed conceptual through bid or issued-for-construction estimates, including quantity takeoff, crew-based labor, material pricing, equipment, subcontract costs, indirect costs, escalation, contingency, markups, and schedule or phasing impacts.
• Hands-on estimating experience with multiple electrical scopes, such as medium- and low-voltage distribution, substations, switch gear, transformers, generators or…