Estimator - Transmission

Estimator

Brink Constructors, Inc. is an electrical contractor with over 75 years of experience in high-voltage transmission line and substation erection. With a long and industrious history, our experienced team continues to help power the nation now and into the future.

At Brink, our success stems from the skilled personnel that we employ and the philosophy we instill to follow and uphold our core fundamental ideals including Safety First. Becoming a member of the Brink team is more than "just a job" or satisfactory employment—at Brink, we build careers, and we invest in the future of our people. Bring your skills to light and power your future with our team.

The Estimator is a Princeton, Minnesota–based estimating role within Brink's Pre-Construction department. The primary responsibility of this position is producing time-and-equipment (T&E) estimates, work-order pricing, and change-order pricing for two key utility clients served under master service, blanket, and alliance-type agreements. This work is high-volume, fast-turnaround, and rate-schedule driven: the estimator builds crew and equipment hour models against contract rate sheets rather than assembling full lump-sum bid packages.

When T&E workload allows, this position supports the broader estimating team on hard-bid and unit-price transmission and distribution pursuits — take-offs, quantity verification, vendor solicitation, and estimate assembly. The Estimator reports to the Lead Estimator – Transmission, who reviews and approves all deliverables before release.

Pay:
This is an exempt/salary position. The pay range is $90,000 -$120,000. Pay may vary depending on your location, skills, and experience.

Location/Travel Requirements:
Position is based at the Brink office in Princeton, MN and requires approximately 10% - 20% travel for site visits and client meetings.

Primary Responsibilities

• Prepare T&E estimates, work-order pricing, and budgetary pricing for assigned utility clients, applying the labor classifications, equipment rates, and markup structures defined in each client's contract rate schedule.
• Build labor estimates from crew composition and productivity — determining the correct crew makeup (foreman, journeyman lineman, apprentice, groundman, operator), crew count, shift structure, and hour build-up for each scope of work.
• Develop equipment hour and duration estimates for digger derricks, cranes, bucket trucks, dozers, matting equipment, and support vehicles, distinguishing operated, standby, and bare-rental rate applications per contract terms.
• Price material, subcontracted work, rental, per diem, subsistence, travel, and mobilization/demobilization in accordance with the allowable cost categories and markup limits of the governing agreement.
• Turn around routine T&E pricing requests within client-required time frames — often days rather than weeks.
• Estimate maintenance, small-capital, emergency restoration, and storm-response work, including scopes with incomplete or evolving design information.
• Price change orders and extra work orders on active projects, confirming scope and schedule impact before pricing is released.
• Document all estimate assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, and rate-schedule references so that pricing is traceable and defensible during client review and audit.
• Maintain current, accurate copies of each client's rate schedules, escalation provisions, and contract billing terms.

General Estimating Support

• Perform quantity take-offs for structures, foundations, conductor and OPGW, access roads, matting, and restoration from plan-and-profile drawings, specifications, and bid documents.
• Solicit and log vendor and subcontractor quotations; assist with bid leveling and scope comparison.
• Prepare staking sheets, bid hour sheets, and budget worksheets using company estimating tools and templates.
• Assist in assembling bid forms, schedules of values, and submittal packages to client formatting requirements.
• Review bid documents, addenda, and specifications and summarize commercial and technical requirements for the estimating team.
• Conduct or participate in site visits to verify access, terrain, soil conditions, staging areas,…