Senior Electrical Estimator - Bid Strategy & Leadership

TA Loving; Goldsboro (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

T.A. Loving Company is seeking an Electrical Estimator in North Carolina to analyze plans, prepare time, cost, and labor estimates for electrical products, projects, or services.

You will lead bid management, document control, and coordination with subcontractors while upholding a safety-first culture. Responsibilities include reviewing drawings, assembling detailed estimates, coordinating with vendors, and developing project schedules to ensure on-time, on-budget completion.

Qualifications

• Experience with electrical estimating.
• Strong working knowledge of Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
• Strong communication and people skills.
• Maintain a valid driver’s license and safe driving record.
• Ability to prepare a scope of work.
• Experience with pricing, purchasing, negotiating, and preparing purchase orders for materials and equipment.
• Experience reading and understanding drawings.
• Detail-oriented.
• Experienced in planning, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Safe work or No work mindset; fully committed to safety and jobsite standards, policies, and processes

Responsibilities

• Bid projects with a safety‑first mindset.
• Abide by the Company’s Fleet Driving Policy.
• Track potential projects to bid; orders plans.
• Review proposal specifications, drawings, and attend pre‑bid meetings to determine scope of work and prepare appropriate questions for owner clarification of proposal issues.
• Assist in preparing and coordinating plan deposits, bid bonds, and bid proposals.
• Plan bid strategy that meets Owner DBE/MBE/WBE requirements.
• Analyze pre‑bid project activities for government regulatory compliance like, OSHA, NC DENR, etc.
• Prepare and assemble detailed estimates through takeoffs and specifications reviews for accurate proposals.
• Generates subcontractors’ scopes of work.
• Call in necessary locates for review of existing utilities before bid.
• Coordinates any necessary exploratory digging.
• Complete post bid review.
• Lead hand‑off meeting providing project and field management.
• Assemble crew sheets with the proper labor, equipment, and production.
• Prepares subcontractors and suppliers lists.
• Develops a schedule to complete the project on time and under budget.
• Create, update, and manage the project schedule with General and Site Superintendents.
• Confers with project team (including Subcontractors) to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority.
• Monitor and ensure quality control on the project.
• Participate in regular owner, subcontractor, and engineer meetings.
• Develop subcontractor and purchase order scopes.
• Complete project close‑out.
• Anticipate and solve problems with a positive mindset and focus on solutions.
• Hold yourself to uncompromising standards, personally and professionally.
• Coach, mentor, and train all jobsite personnel.
• Consistently build strong positive relationships with vendors, field, and project management.
• Give ongoing feedback to other estimators.

Skills

Electrical estimating

Outlook

Excel

Word

Communication

Driver's license

Scope of work

Pricing & purchasing

Reading drawings

Detail-oriented

Planning & coordination

Safety mindset

Tools

Outlook

Excel

Word

Job description

T.A. Loving Company is seeking an Electrical Estimator in North Carolina to analyze plans, prepare time, cost, and labor estimates for electrical products, projects, or services.

You will lead bid management, document control, and coordination with subcontractors while upholding a safety-first culture. Responsibilities include reviewing drawings, assembling detailed estimates, coordinating with vendors, and developing project schedules to ensure on-time, on-budget completion.