Industrial Electrical Project Manager

Knobelsdorff Electric Inc.; Eagan (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Knobelsdorff Electric Inc. in Minnesota seeks an experienced electrical projects professional to lead field service and project-based work from RFP through closeout.

This role owns project scope, schedule, budget, customer communication, field coordination, and financial performance, while supporting estimating, customer site walks, proposal development, change-order pricing, and other Solutions Team priorities.

Qualifications

• Previous electrical construction project-management experience strongly preferred; industrial electrical or Field Services experience is a plus.
• Working knowledge of electrical construction methods, materials, equipment, project sequencing, and jobsite execution.
• Demonstrated understanding of project scope, schedule, budget, forecasting, job-cost management, and change orders.
• Electrical estimating, and or project management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned electrical projects from initial opportunity to final closeout with accountability for safety, scope, schedule, budget, customer expectations, and financial results.
• Partner with Business Development and customers to qualify opportunities, understand project drivers, define technical needs, and establish practical pursuit strategies.
• Lead and participate in customer discovery meetings, site walks, field investigations, and constructability reviews to develop clear scopes of work and identify risks, assumptions, exclusions, and schedule constraints.
• Support pre-construction design by coordinating with customers, engineers, vendors, and field leadership to develop conceptual layouts, design criteria, equipment selections, installation approaches, and value-engineering options.
• Create complete, competitive electrical estimates using drawings, specifications, site conditions, historical data, and defined customer requirements.
• Develop proposal packages, clarifications, alternates, allowances, qualifications, and pricing narratives that clearly communicate KE’s scope, value, and commercial position.
• Provide estimating support across the Solutions Team by reviewing scopes, takeoffs, labor plans, vendor pricing, proposal strategy, and estimate completeness; assist with bid reviews and turnover preparation.
• Review estimates, proposals, contracts, purchase orders, drawings, specifications, and customer requirements before startup; lead internal handoff and kickoff activities to align estimating assumptions with project execution.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, manpower plans, material needs, shutdown requirements, work sequencing, procurement plans, and key milestones.
• Monitor labor productivity, material, equipment, subcontractors, purchase commitments, billing, cost to complete, and forecasted margin; address concerns early.
• Identify scope changes, develop and validate change-order pricing, submit and track change orders, and communicate approved changes to the field and project team.
• Serve as a primary KE contact and communicate project status, schedule, risks, required decisions, and changes clearly and professionally while developing long-term customer relationships and identifying follow-on opportunities.
• Conduct regular site visits, maintain strong working relationships with field leadership, and remove roadblocks affecting safe and efficient execution.
• Coordinate vendors, subcontractors, procurement, long-lead materials, equipment, and critical delivery dates.
• Maintain complete project documentation, including RFIs, submittals, schedules, correspondence, photographs, cost information, and as-built requirements.
• Lead punch-list completion, project closeout, final financial review, estimate-versus-actual analysis, and lessons-learned activities; apply findings to improve future estimates and execution plans.
• Support safe project planning and partner with field leadership and KE Safety to address project-specific risks.
• Support Project Coordinators and developing team members by sharing estimating, pre-construction, project-controls, and customer-management practices.
• Participate in KE Project Manager meetings and operating cadences for pipeline review, estimating, forecasting, scheduling, reporting, risk management, change management, and project controls.

Skills

Customer communication

Problem solving

Organization

Decision making

Electrical estimating

Project management

Education

Bachelor/Associate in Construction Management or related field

Tools

Procore

Microsoft Project

Dynamics

Estimating platforms

Microsoft 365

Job description

Knobelsdorff Electric Inc. in Minnesota seeks an experienced electrical projects professional to lead field service and project-based work from RFP through closeout.

This role owns project scope, schedule, budget, customer communication, field coordination, and financial performance, while supporting estimating, customer site walks, proposal development, change-order pricing, and other Solutions Team priorities.