Senior Manager – Estimation

Senior Manager – Estimation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics, finance, economics, or construction.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of Utility Solar estimating experience
• Solid experience and knowledge with renewable energy construction practices, particularly with utility scale Solar and BESS projects.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, up to 30%
• Solid experience with construction cost estimating practices, including familiarity with how to perform conceptual/parametric estimating, bid tendering, detailed quantity estimating, and change order estimating.
• Ability to understand and estimate civil, mechanical, and electrical construction, with emphasis on DC cabling, MV cabling, Single access PV racking, High voltage and interconnection.
• Good understanding of Critical Path Scheduling concepts, including familiarity with scheduling tools like MS Project, Primavera P6, or Smartsheet.
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office Suite and estimating platforms.
• High degree of professionalism and conduct at all times.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present and explain complex information clearly.
• Demonstrated customer focus and strong communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Data-based decision-making, results oriented.
• Critical and strategic thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and progressively elaborate on capital expenditure estimates for project execution costs (engineering, procurement, and construction) for Solar and BESS projects under development through preconstruction.
• Upon initial project screening and evaluation, develop conceptual/parametric cost estimates based on engineering input, historical cost data, and current market trends.
• As projects mature through key milestones, develop master project scopes of work and perform more detailed estimates of CapEx costs.
• Once scopes of work require services to execute the work, prepare solicitation packages, statements of work and specification packages for solicitation / negotiation by 3rd parties (Contractors, Suppliers, EPC’s, Consultants, etc).
• Perform Contractor/EPC solicitation processes in collaboration with Procurement teams.
• Normalize, tender 3rd party responses to solicitations against modeled estimates and master scopes of work. Provide recommendations to the Company on how to proceed with 3rd party services, particularly EPC / Construction services.
• Support contract management, project management teams in negotiating 3rd party contracts.
• Support Business Development team by executing estimating tasks noted above, as well as providing initial engineering/constructability reviews: Site evaluation, Review of project documents including site and environmental studies, Identify mitigation to potential project risks to determine the feasibility of the project.
• Develop due diligence memos with recommendations on actions to reduce both technical and business risk.
• Assist the Business Development team in preparing sales and offer documents to project sellers and other parties as required.
• Conduct site visits as necessary to perform constructability diligence on behalf of the engineering, project management and construction management teams.
• Develop and maintain internal project cost databases, extracting past project cost data in support of developing future cost estimates.
• Develop and maintain external cost databases and market trends in support of forecasting risk and refining future cost estimates.
• Assist Engineering, Project Controls, and PM/CM team in researching, assessing, and analyzing 3rd party EPC/Contractor capabilities as required by assessing construction production rates, project management capabilities, and engineering / preconstruction capabilities.
• Confirm equipment specifications including bill of materials / bill of quantities for the Balance of System scopes, especially ones developed by 3rd parties.
• Support Procurement Team in their assessment, solicitation, and recommendations of key material equipment procurement.
• Perform other duties and special projects, as assigned by Company Management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior estimation software such as Heavy Bid, AccuBid, Inteli Bid or others a plus.
• Familiarity with data management / data analytics practices very helpful.