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Electrical Estimating Manager
Clayton Services
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Manager or above
2 weeks ago
$150,000 – $175,000 / year
- Excel
- Pension
2 weeks ago
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Job Type: Direct Hire
Pay Rate: $150,000–$175,000 annually
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) w/ match, PTO, and more.
Electrical Estimating Manager Responsibilities:
- Lead electrical estimates from initial project review through final bid submission.
- Manage, mentor, and develop electrical estimating personnel.
- Review drawings, specifications, bid documents, and project requirements to establish complete scope.
- Develop conceptual, budgetary, design-assist, and competitive bid estimates for complex electrical construction projects.
- Perform and oversee detailed electrical quantity takeoffs.
- Develop labor requirements and manhours based on productivity, project conditions, schedules, and anticipated field execution.
- Prepare comprehensive labor, material, equipment, and subcontractor pricing.
- Estimate electrical scopes involving medium- and low-voltage power distribution and other industrial electrical systems.
- Evaluate instrumentation, controls, and related electrical scopes as required by individual projects.
- Solicit, analyze, and compare vendor and subcontractor proposals to ensure complete scope coverage.
- Identify scope gaps, exclusions, assumptions, constructability concerns, and potential project risks before bid submission.
- Evaluate project schedules, Client requirements, sequencing, overtime, and other factors that may affect labor productivity and cost.
- Develop pricing for alternate approaches, value engineering opportunities, and constructability recommendations.
- Coordinate closely with operations, project management, procurement, and field leadership during bid development.
- Lead internal estimate reviews and prepare supporting bid and proposal documentation.
- Maintain estimating standards, historical cost information, and labor productivity data.
- Compare estimated costs and labor assumptions against completed project performance to improve future estimates.
- Support the transition of awarded projects from preconstruction into project execution.
- Advanced knowledge of industrial electrical construction methods and field installation practices.
- Strong understanding of electrical estimating, quantity takeoffs, labor productivity, manhour development, and material pricing.
- Strong knowledge of medium- and low-voltage electrical distribution.
- Familiarity with instrumentation and controls within an industrial construction environment.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, one-lines, specifications, equipment schedules, and other construction documents.
- Strong understanding of Client planning, project schedules, construction sequencing, and productivity factors.
- Ability to recognize incomplete scope, constructability concerns, and financial risk during the estimating process.
- Working knowledge of applicable electrical codes and construction standards.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and electrical estimating software.
- Strong leadership, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple complex estimates and deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of how electrical projects are executed in the field, not simply how they are estimated.
- 10+ years of progressive electrical construction estimating experience preferred.
- Previous experience as an Estimating Manager, Lead Estimator, Senior Estimator, or comparable senior-level estimating professional.
- Experience estimating large, complex electrical construction projects.
- Background supporting industrial, manufacturing, energy, mission-critical, or similarly complex construction environments strongly preferred.
- Experience with design-build, design-assist, or other collaborative preconstruction delivery methods preferred.
- Previous responsibility for leading, mentoring, or developing estimating personnel.
- Field electrical construction experience or significant knowledge of electrical field operations is highly desirable.
Electrical Estimating Manager · Clayton Services