What are the responsibilities and job description for the Industrial Electrical Estimating Specialist position at New River Electrical Corporation?
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key responsibilities:
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key responsibilities:
- Reviewing project plans and specifications to confirm complete scope
- Participating in customer pre-bid meetings and site visits to gain an understanding of project requirements and site challenges
- Identifying risk issues and their order of magnitude
- Soliciting subcontractor and/or supplier information and pricing
- Meeting estimating deadlines working independently
- Performing detailed takeoffs of labor, materials, and equipment required to complete electrical construction projects
- Managing flow of bid information between customers, contractors, vendors, subcontractors, and operations employees
- Creating and transmitting scope letters and quotations
- Following up with customers on proposals
- Supporting project managers with submittals during the pre-construction phase of projects
- Assisting other estimators and project managers on large project estimates
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 years of commercial, industrial, and renewable electrical estimating experience, or a minimum of 5 years of field supervision or relevant experience
- Industrial and Renewable construction experience preferred
- Must be experienced and proficient with pre-packaged estimating software
- Must be familiar with materials and equipment take-off process
- Possesses the ability to perform conceptual estimates based on specifications
- Possesses strong mathematical, communication and computer skills
- Possesses a general understanding of MS Office and proficiency in the use of Excel
- Ability to compose basic, as well as complex proposals, technical documents, and formal letters
- Ability to make presentations to both small and large, diverse groups; ability to communicate with clients, engineers and internal operations
- Excellent organizational, planning and time management skills
- High attention to detail with the ability to recognize discrepancies
- General understanding of Fixed Price, Time & Materials, Cost Plus and Unit contract pricing mechanisms
- Knowledgeable of the electrical trade and general construction
- Knowledgeable of the National Electrical Code (NEC)
- Ability to perform NEC calculations
- Ability to understand construction drawings and contract documents
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work on multiple estimates simultaneously
