Director of Estimating

What you'll do:

• Develop cost and schedule estimates for new and on-going projects
• Coordinate with Development, Construction, and Operations groups to ensure consistency across the organization
• Identify project indicative costs, economic feasibility and risk areas
• Perform, or cause to perform, material and balance of system quantity takeoffs
• Coordinate with material and service providers for bids, proposals, and negotiation
• Standardize company estimating processes and procedures
• Identify and integrate software tools to support effective work flow and information management
• Develop and manage estimation reference database
• Adopt and use analytical methods such as trending, historical performance, and time studies to support and increase accuracy
• Develop continuous improvement methods, creating flexibility to lead and keep functional pace with market and partner strategies
• Identify and implement methods for functional improvement

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, accounting specialties, or equivalent; or 10 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience estimating civil and site specific costs relating to post driving, trenching, storm water management, and general site productivity given site specific sub-surface and related geotechnical, hydrological and local climate information
• Experience in estimating large utility scale solar projects, demonstrating competence in hard-bid, design-build, and conceptual estimating
• Experience in PV industry including interacting with vendors and service providers
• Experience in interconnect, substation and gen-tie estimating
• Willing to travel to project sites as required to support estimating process
• Working knowledge of Timberline, Excel, and Microsoft Office products
• Ability to work under pressure, meets tight deadlines, and coordinate team members
• Ability to present information in clear succinct manor
• Knowledge of and experience with general construction practices
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD
• Knowledge and experience in EPC estimating practices and methods, including demonstrated ability to organize, perform, and present cost estimating products
• Skilled in the calculation of productivity-affected burdened labor rates and the impact of civil, subsurface and storm-water conditions.
• In-depth knowledge of project schedules and ability to predict/extrapolate costs curves based on experience of scheduled- activities/cost correlation analysis.
• Knowledgeable of manual labor performance, equipment production and derivation of composite craft/category labor rates in union and non-union environments.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit or stand at a desk for 6-8 hours per day performing tasks on a computer
• Requires minimal physical effort with periods of walking and standing with light lifting of files
• Minimal bending, stooping, or reaching
• Occasionally exposure to environmental elements during remote visits

Working Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Requiring normal safety precautions with minimal occupational health and safety risks
• Moderate to low noise levels
• Requires considerable concentration
• Stresses induced by changing environment, diversity in the organization, strict deadlines and high volume of workload

Ability to pass a comprehensive background check and drug screen.