Senior Electrical Estimator – Data Center Construction

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $130k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Turner & Townsend

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📋 Description

• Lead the preparation of detailed electrical cost estimates for hyperscale data center projects, including medium‑ and low‑voltage distribution, substations, UPS systems, generators, switchgear, busway, grounding, and lighting systems. • Perform and oversee comprehensive electrical quantity takeoffs from drawings, specifications, and BIM models, including conduit, cabling, transformers, generators, and associated infrastructure. • Develop, validate, and challenge labor, material, and equipment pricing models aligned with project budgets, delivery strategies, and evolving market conditions. • Establish and maintain historical cost data, benchmarks, and estimating standards to support large‑scale programs and future project forecasting. • Review, analyze, and normalize electrical contractor and subcontractor bids, identifying scope gaps, cost risks, and commercial exposure. • Lead and support value engineering and design optioneering efforts, evaluating alternative electrical systems, layouts, and installation methods while maintaining redundancy and reliability requirements. • Partner closely with engineering, procurement, and construction leaders to inform electrical system decisions based on cost, constructability, schedule, and risk. • Identify and proactively manage risks related to long‑lead electrical equipment, supply chain constraints, labor availability, and market escalation. • Account for regional cost variability across U.S. markets, including labor rates, logistics constraints, permitting considerations, and utility interface requirements. • Support estimating for large‑scale power infrastructure, including utility tie‑ins, substations, and campus‑wide electrical distribution. • Contribute to standardized data center designs and repeatable delivery models, improving cost certainty, scalability, and speed to market. • Ensure electrical estimates align with applicable codes, safety standards, sustainability objectives, and energy efficiency requirements. • Prepare clear, defensible estimating deliverables and present findings to internal teams and external stakeholders. • Participate in cost reviews, procurement discussions, funding approvals, and commercial strategy sessions. • Support change management by assessing electrical scope changes and cost impacts throughout the design and construction lifecycle. • Provide estimating handover materials to construction teams to support alignment between estimate and execution. • Offer mentorship and technical guidance to junior estimators and contribute to estimating best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. • 7+ years of experience in electrical estimating, with strong preference for data center, mission‑critical, or large‑scale infrastructure projects. • Advanced technical knowledge of power distribution systems, backup generation, UPS systems, electrical codes, and labor productivity. • Demonstrated experience estimating high‑density and hyperscale electrical systems is highly desirable. • Proficiency in estimating and takeoff tools such as Accubid, ConEst, McCormick, Bluebeam, or similar platforms, with strong familiarity interpreting BIM‑based information. • Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate cost drivers, assumptions, and risks. • Proven ability to operate independently while providing leadership within a collaborative, multidisciplinary project environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities