Senior Substation Estimator

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🕒 March 13

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Welty Energy

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51 - 200 employees

⚡ Energy

🏗️ Construction

🤝 B2B

Energy • Construction • B2B

Welty Energy is a professional services firm headquartered in Akron, Ohio that provides program and project management, construction management, and engineering services for electric utility infrastructure. The company specializes in transmission line engineering, substation engineering, and construction oversight for transmission, substation and distribution projects ranging from 4 kV to 765 kV, and manages hundreds of millions of dollars in construction projects for utilities across the Midwest and Northeast U. S. Welty positions itself as an extension of its clients' teams, delivering safe, transparent, on-schedule, and on-budget execution.

📋 Description

• Create utility project estimates • Act as an extension of our client’s team and provide best-in-class service • Involved with consulting on select projects as well as providing assistance to the Welty Project Management Team • Mentoring junior Estimators • Create preliminary project schedules considering lead times, crews, construction durations, siting etc. • Write Scope of Work for conceptual/pre-funding approval projects • Work with internal substation layout teams for preliminary substation designs • Create and review substation estimates • Review/Aide supplemental support estimates such as forestry, SCADA/IT network, fiber, testing and commissioning, and related • Coordinate with other scoping and estimating team members, planning and protection engineering, sponsors, regional contacts and personnel from the supplemental support estimate staff • Attend regional meetings to review the status of all open estimates • Review/approve/reject estimate requests in OPPM • Build accurate project schedule timelines for substation and support estimates

🎯 Requirements

• Ability to effectively manage a high-volume workload while communicating efficiently and effectively with internal and external clients • Solid understanding of engineering design / drawing packages • High school or GED required • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or similar technical degree is advantageous • 8+ years of either substation design or estimating experience within the electric utility industry is required • Microsoft Office Suite proficiency, specifically within Excel • Sage Estimating software, Navigator, OPPM (Primavera P6), Google Earth (preferred) • Experience with substation design, construction, and/or testing (aligned with estimating experience) • Ability to mine and analyze data. • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings is highly preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Straight time overtime pay for billable hours over 40 in a workweek • 3% travel requirement (2-3 times per year) • Schedule flexibility and an appreciation for work/life balance • Opportunity to continue in future leadership opportunities amongst the team • All team members have a Coach, Buddy, and Mentor to support success within the positions • Ample training resources from Welty Energy and applicable clients