Senior Electrical Preconstruction Engineer

Clayco; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Clayco is seeking a Senior Electrical Preconstruction Engineer to develop accurate cost estimates for heavy/advanced manufacturing, industrial and mission critical projects. You will interact with engineers, architects, subcontractors, suppliers, and a multi-discipline estimating team to coordinate electrical scopes and pricing documents.

This role requires a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or related field, 3–5 years in construction estimating electrical systems, and proficiency with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or related field, or a combination of education and experience.
• 3-5 years of construction experience with 3+ years estimating electrical systems.
• Inclusive leadership and teamwork, valuing diverse perspectives.
• Experience managing bids with heavy/advanced manufacturing, industrial, and mission critical markets.
• Ability to read electrical drawings and price/schedule complex systems.
• Strong technical writing, math, and software skills (BlueBeam, Excel, Word, PowerPoint; Trimble preferred).
• Travel nationwide; experience with bidding processes and pricing required.

Responsibilities

• Attend pre-bid meetings to understand project requirements and site conditions.
• Review project documents to determine material, equipment, and labor needs.
• Prepare scopes of work for subcontracts and coordinate electrical scopes with other trades.
• Participate in pre-proposal design coordination for pricing documents.
• Perform quantity surveying of electrical systems using digitized software and standard labor rates.
• Evaluate vendors/subs for conformance; identify best value and capture assumptions.
• Assist in preparing estimates for bidding and budgeting; recap for senior management.
• Support project management tasks including budgeting, scheduling, and change orders.
• Coordinate with project teams to evaluate productivity and forecast schedule/cost.
• Perform quantity surveys of completed designs for historical cost data.

Skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Electrical systems knowledge

Electrical drawings

Cost estimation

Quantity surveying

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Construction Management (preferred)

Tools

BlueBeam

Excel

PowerPoint

Trimble

Word

Job description

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $8.1 billion in revenue for 2025, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for mission critical, industrial, life sciences, power & energy, aviation, commercial, institutional, residential and sports & entertainment related building projects.

The Role We Want You For

The Senior Electrical Preconstruction Engineer will participate in all aspects of the preconstruction process for electrical systems to develop accurate, detailed cost estimates with a focus on heavy/ advanced manufacturing, industrial and mission critical projects. This role will be expected to interact with engineers, architects, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, a multi-discipline estimating team, project supervision, and field personnel.

The Specifics of the Role

• Periodically attend pre-bid meetings to become familiar with unique project requirements and analyze existing site conditions to determine required scope that is not already indicated.
• Review and interpret project documents to determine job-specific material, equipment, and labor requirements for scope development.
• Assist in preparing written scopes of work for subcontracts and suppliers and coordinating electrical scopes with the work of other trades (e.g., civil, structural, architectural, mechanical etc.).
• Participate in pre-proposal design coordination meetings to support the development of pricing documents for conceptual estimates.
• Perform quantity survey of electrical systems and components using digitized software, and apply industry standard labor rates (e.g., MCAA, PHCC, etc.) to support the development of accurate cost estimates.
• Evaluate vendor and subcontractor for conformance with proposal requirements; level scopes and identify low cost/ best value responses while capturing assumptions, rationale, inclusions, exclusions, etc.
• Assist in the preparation of estimates used for bidding and budgeting purposes (including self-performed work); participate in internal estimate review process and assist with final recap of estimate for presentation to senior management.
• Support project management tasks, including budgeting, schedule development, interim design review, change order pricing, procurement, value engineering, and vendor selection based on proposal development.
• Coordinate with project teams to evaluate productivity for historical data and schedule/ cost forecasting purposes.
• Perform quantity survey of completed designs and/ or past projects to support historical cost data collection and analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or related field, or a combination of education (including trade schools) and professional experience.
• 3-5 years of experience in construction with 3+ years of experience estimating electrical systems.
• Exhibits inclusive leadership and teamwork behavior, and values diverse perspectives from team members.
• Demonstrated experience in the successful management of bidding process with a preferred emphasis on heavy/advanced manufacturing, industrial and mission critical markets.
• Understanding of complex electrical systems and how to price and schedule them.
• Ability to read and understand electrical drawings and blue models.
• Possesses strong technical writing, math and computer skills with proficiency using standard office software applications such as BlueBeam, Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to support estimating efforts.
• Experience using estimating software with a preference for Trimble products.

Some Things You Should Know

• Our clients and projects are nationwide – Travel will be required.
• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!

Why Clayco?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Top 400 – Top Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.