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About the Role
Superior Skilled Trades is partnering with a national commercial electrical contractor that focuses on complex, sustainable, and high-performance construction projects. This role is crucial for supporting project planning, bidding, and operational decisions through accurate cost estimations.
Responsibilities
- Prepare detailed and accurate Self-Perform Work (SPW) cost estimates.
- Apply knowledge of materials, labor, equipment, and production methods to evaluate SPW scopes.
- Collaborate with project, field, procurement, scheduling, and operations teams.
- Ensure estimates reflect realistic production rates, current market conditions, and project-specific risks.
- Prepare comprehensive SPW cost estimates incorporating material, labor, equipment, and production costs.
- Review drawings, models, and specifications to validate quantities, confirm scope completeness, and identify risks or gaps.
- Collaborate with field leaders, engineers, project teams, and operations to verify production rates and align estimates with execution plans.
- Partner with procurement teams to evaluate vendor and supplier pricing, level bids, validate project assumptions, and identify pricing variances.
- Develop cost studies and variance analyses to support value engineering and constructability decisions.
- Coordinate with scheduling and operations teams to align SPW estimates with project phasing, access, sequencing, and execution requirements.
- Identify SPW-related risks, constraints, and uncertainties and incorporate appropriate allowances or contingencies.
- Maintain historical cost and production data to improve estimating tools, processes, and accuracy.
- Clearly communicate estimate assumptions, findings, risks, and recommendations to project stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience required.
- 4–6 years of experience in estimating, preconstruction, cost analysis, self-perform work, or construction projects required.
- Experience with data centers, advanced technology, mission-critical facilities, healthcare, life sciences, higher education, industrial, or renewable-energy projects is highly valued.
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4-6 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $120K - $135K
Benefits
- Full medical
- Vision
- Dental
- 4 weeks of PTO
- 401K with a 6% match
- Yearly bonuses
About the Company
- National commercial electrical contractor specializing in technically complex, sustainable, and high-performance construction projects.