Project Manager/Estimator - Electrical Construction

Summary (General Description):

Provides estimator and project management services to the Electrical Construction division. Forecasts project costs by evaluating project requirements and specifications and determining the appropriate materials, labor, equipment, and contractors. Manages projects from start to finish by overseeing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, and quality. Communicates with customers, employees, and management to update them on projects status and issues. Ensures overall project success by monitoring job progress, evaluating job progress, evaluation risks, foreseeing issues, and proactively taking action to keep projects on track.

Responsibilities (includes but not limited to):

• Operate a company vehicle
• Prepares bids, budget proposal estimates, and design build proposals.
• Conducts site visits as needed to evaluate compliance with schedule, safety requirements, project specifications, and overall project status.
• Develops project schedules and staffing plans and communicates them to supervision.
• Tracks project budgeted vs actual costs
• Monitors project quality and coaches staff when necessary
• Manages Change order process
• Manages Subcontractor process
• Manages punch-list process
• Manages project material, inventory, equipment, and labor logistics
• Communicates project status with customers and works with them to resolve issues.

Qualifications (Skills, Education, Certifications, Experience):

Required:

• Possess a valid drivers license
• Experience in reading and interpreting Electrical plans and specifications
• Knowledge of applicable and current building and NEC code requirements
• Proficient in performing material take-offs from technical drawings
• Experience or familiarity with establishing cost estimates
• Knowledgeable of Electrical design techniques
• Experience with construction project contract documents (contract drawings, subcontracts, contract addendum, specifications, and change orders)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multitask
• Proficient with use of PC’s, portable electronic devices, and MS office suite.
• Ability to teach others
• 5 years of experience working in a leadership role in the Electrical industry or 2 years relevant experience and an AA or BS in a technical field

Preferred:

• Knowledge of NEC and ability to apply for Electrical exam
• Limited or Unlimited electrical license

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

General Physical Requirements

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Physical Activities

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and make fine discriminations in sound.

Visual Acuity

The worker is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machines such as lathes, drill presses, power saws and mills where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach; performing mechanical or skilled trades tasks of a non-repetitive nature such as carpenters, technicians, service people, plumbers, painters, mechanics, etc.

Working Conditions

• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.