Electrical Estimator

Estimation & Customer Outreach

Empowerment Scope:

Responsible for customer outreach and estimations for projects and all development and implementation elements. Championing and gathering information, organizing and preparing information, as well as analyzing important metrics to create a quantifiable and competitive quote. Communication interactions with customers, vendors and team members in relation to bid information.

Accountability Measures:

General Expectations

• Identify and construct cost estimates through an examination of the resources and labor required to execute certain projects.
• Develop precise or correct impressions, recognize and understand the risks associated with the projects, develop production plans, and so on.
• Efficient at developing estimation terms for official quotation to customer. Always protecting Industry Standards best interests.
• Examine and describe the expense of lost resources and potential delays in a project, making suggestions or developing solutions to address these problems
• Review industrial, and commercial construction designs to ascertain a project’s electrical requirements including cooperating and communicating effectively with clients, proposing suitable sites, wire widths, transformer sizes, and other factors.
• Examine supplier pricing to ascertain the cost of each component individually and negotiating with merchants and suppliers to secure the best deals.
• Save time on future estimates by maintaining cost databases and include typical expenditures.
• Ascertain the project’s electrical requirements.
• Create the specified electrical system’s outline and designs.
• Place the workstation, utilities, and other fixtures by the guidelines.
• Analyze the plans and understand them.
• Examine the design to gauge the electrical wire’s length.
• Determine the budget and time restrictions.
• Understand the price of each component’s supply.
• Calculate the amount of labor needed to complete the job.
• Collaborate with other team members and contractors.
• Maintain a record of electrical costs.
• Perform calculations for various ways to profitability.
• Keep up good contacts with the suppliers.
• Describe the expense and resource required for projects to translate a clear picture to PM of project quotation development. Required but not limited to preliminary schedule, schedule of values and copy of bid design (Preliminary markups of bid design).
• Provide support to team members with that may not be listed to move projects forward for the benefit of the company at supervisors’ approval or request.
• Design bid according to current national electrical code (NEC).

Qualifications and Skills

• Completion or enrolled in of Electrical estimation classes at the postsecondary level.
• Preferred or equivalent bachelor’s degree in construction science, engineering, construction management, or a similar profession.
• Preferred electrical certification with the state of California.
• A capacity for blueprint interpretation.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Outstanding organizing abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills, and time-management skills
• Strong analytic abilities, math skills, and must be a critical thinker.
• Working knowledge of Excel spreadsheets, word processing programs, and construction management software’s. (Blue beam, CAD software, estimation software and all Microsoft products.)
• Understanding of construction documents.
• Ability to coordinate and work independently.

Documentation

• Develop bid documents for all upcoming, current and outstanding bids. Quotation cost, action plans, specification sheets, preliminary schedule and SOV’s.
• Update Management and Project Management team of potential projects and approved projects. Will be required to turn over a project to a project manager with developed bid documents in an official capacity.