Electrical Estimator

Electrical Estimator / Cost Manager

This role focuses on delivering accurate conceptual, schematic, and detailed cost estimates for electrical scopes on large, high-impact preconstruction projects across multiple market sectors. You will support early-phase budget development, cost planning, and value engineering while partnering closely with clients, general contractors, and internal project teams. The position is ideal for an electrical estimating professional with strong trades-level experience who enjoys shaping budgets early, influencing cost decisions, and guiding clients through complex scopes and evolving designs within a collaborative, growth-oriented cost management consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Prepare conceptual, schematic, and detailed cost estimates for electrical scopes across multiple preconstruction projects.
• Support the development of project budgets, cost planning efforts, feasibility studies, and value engineering initiatives.
• Perform QA/QC reviews on estimating deliverables to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with project requirements.
• Plan workloads and manage tasks for estimating activities to meet deadlines and support multiple concurrent projects.
• Conduct value analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities while maintaining project quality and performance.
• Reconcile change orders, invoices, and cost impacts with general contractors, subcontractors, and third parties.
• Provide post-contract cost support, including bid analysis, change management, and cost tracking for electrical scopes.
• Participate in risk and value management evaluations to identify and mitigate cost and schedule risks.
• Mentor and support estimators and estimating technicians, strengthening their technical and procedural knowledge.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships through clear communication, reliable cost guidance, and responsive service.
• Prepare client-facing reports, milestone estimates, and executive-ready summaries that clearly communicate cost insights and recommendations.
• Engage with internal stakeholders, project controls teams, and leadership to ensure alignment on budgets, assumptions, and cost strategies.
• Participate in peer reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance estimating processes, tools, and standards.
• Stay informed on local market conditions, construction trends, and industry best practices to ensure estimates reflect current realities.
• Collaborate with regional offices and project teams as needed to support preconstruction and cost management activities.
• Contribute to bidding, quantity take-offs, and low-voltage and broader electrical construction estimation as required.

Essential Skills

• At least 5 years of experience in electrical estimating, preferably from a subcontractor company.
• Strong experience in conceptual estimating and early project planning for electrical scopes.
• Deep technical understanding of electrical systems, scopes, and construction methodologies.
• Proven experience supporting large, complex commercial construction projects.
• Ability to read and interpret construction schedules, drawings, and specifications.
• Advanced proficiency with cost estimating methods, tools, and processes.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills for detailed cost modeling and analysis.
• Experience using modern estimating and construction software such as Accubid, Bluebeam, and Procore.
• Ability to analyze incomplete or evolving design information and provide clear, defensible cost guidance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for client-facing and internal interactions.
• Ability to perform at a high level in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Experience in MEP-focused estimating or cost consulting for electrical and related systems.
• Comfort working on project budgets, bidding, take-offs, and quantity surveying for electrical construction.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working within a national or global cost consulting or project management environment.
• Experience in low-voltage systems estimation and commercial construction projects.
• Familiarity with value engineering, value analysis, and feasibility studies in a preconstruction context.
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