Chief Estimator

🔥 15 hours ago

⛰️ Colorado, Texas – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Rising Edge Group

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201 - 500 employees

🏗️ Construction

⚡ Energy

Construction • Energy

Rising Edge Group is a high voltage electrical contractor providing safe, cost-effective, and fit-for-purpose project solutions to the power industry. Since its inception in 2002, the company has grown to offer a wide array of services in power generation, transmission, fabrication, and industrial sectors. From conceptual design to commissioning, each aspect of a project is managed by trained industry specialists, ensuring timely and budget-compliant completion. Rising Edge focuses on delivering tailored solutions for complex protection schemes and various types of switchyard equipment.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for estimating activities. • Prepare, review, and validate detailed cost estimates for complex electrical infrastructure projects, including substations, transmission, distribution, and BESS. • Lead and support estimating activities across regions, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and quality. • Establish and maintain estimating standards, procedures, cost methodologies, and review processes. • Develop and review proposal deliverables, including schedules, cash flow analyses, construction methodologies, execution plans, and supporting documentation. • Assess project risks, commercial exposures, and constructability constraints. • Identify value engineering and cost-saving opportunities. • Support bid/no-bid decisions, pursuit strategies, client presentations, commercial negotiations, and contract awards. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to estimating and pre-construction personnel. • Analyze historical project costs, benchmarking data, productivity assumptions, pricing, and market trends. • Collaborate with project management, engineering, procurement, and construction teams. • Evaluate estimating software, tools, and workflows and implement continuous improvement initiatives. • Report to the Director of Pre-Construction.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field considered an asset. • 10+ years of progressive experience in electrical estimating, pre-construction, or electrical infrastructure project delivery, preferably within the high-voltage, utility, or renewable energy sectors. • Extensive experience developing, reviewing, and validating estimates for complex electrical infrastructure projects, including substations and/or battery energy storage systems (BESS). • Strong understanding of high-voltage electrical construction methods, labor productivity, material and equipment costs, subcontractor pricing, and project execution requirements. • Demonstrated ability to lead technical bid reviews, establish estimating standards, assess project risks and commercial exposures, and identify cost-saving opportunities. • Experience mentoring estimating professionals and collaborating with senior leadership, project management, and engineering teams across multiple regions. • Strong understanding of protection and control systems, electrical drawings, specifications, and project execution plans. • Experience preparing and reviewing construction schedules using Microsoft Project and/or Primavera P6. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and relevant estimating software. • Strong analytical, organizational, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. • Valid driver's license and willingness to travel to project sites or regional offices as required. • Pre-employment professional reference checks and criminal record check required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful engagement initiatives • Team events • Wellbeing support • Inclusion-focused culture • Collaboration, respect, and accountability • Hands-on experience across diverse projects • Opportunities to advance across disciplines, locations, and career paths • Continuous learning • Mentorship • Professional development • Competitive compensation • Comprehensive benefits • Recognition and appreciation of achievements

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