Senior Electrical Estimator - Solar & BESS Projects (Remote)

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Bedminster Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking an experienced Electrical Estimator to support the growth of our utility-scale Solar and BESS projects. You will develop accurate estimates, review engineering docs, perform takeoffs, and build cost models for labor, materials, and subcontractors.

The role involves collaborating with engineering, procurement, and construction teams, identifying risks, and maintaining current data to support competitive proposals.

Qualifications

• Experience estimating electrical construction work for an electrical contractor, EPC contractor, or similar organization.
• Experience evaluating and estimating work where project or field documentation may be incomplete or require additional scope validation.
• Experience using cost estimating methodologies and estimating software.
• Experience performing quantity takeoffs, labor modeling, productivity analysis, vendor quote evaluation, and contingency development.
• Willing and able to travel up to 25% to project sites, customer meetings, and other business locations.

Responsibilities

• Review engineering documentation, design packages, one-line diagrams, bills of material (BOMs), project specifications, and field documentation to develop accurate estimates for utility-scale Solar and BESS projects.
• Develop detailed bottoms-up cost estimates for labor, equipment, materials, subcontractors, rentals, mobilization, and other project costs.
• Perform electrical quantity takeoffs and develop labor and productivity models using engineering design packages and available project documentation.
• Develop estimate assumptions, exclusions, allowances, escalation factors, and contingency strategies to appropriately account for project scope and commercial risk.
• Partner with project development, engineering, procurement, and construction teams to validate scope assumptions, identify project risks, and support proposal development.
• Evaluate vendor and subcontractor pricing and maintain current material, equipment, labor, and productivity data to support competitive and accurate cost models.
• Conduct site visits as needed and incorporate actual project costs, execution feedback, and lessons learned to continuously improve estimating accuracy and proposal responsiveness.

Skills

Electrical estimating

Takeoffs

Vendor pricing

Travel

Estimating software

Tools

InEight Estimating

Estimating software

Job description

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking an experienced Electrical Estimator to support the growth of our utility-scale Solar and BESS projects. You will develop accurate estimates, review engineering docs, perform takeoffs, and build cost models for labor, materials, and subcontractors.

The role involves collaborating with engineering, procurement, and construction teams, identifying risks, and maintaining current data to support competitive proposals.