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We're seeking people driven to excellence and inspired by the way engineering and innovation improves lives, enhances customer outcomes, and changes the world for the better. As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with more than 5,100 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability.

We are seeking a Senior Estimator to be part of our team in Baltimore, MD working on bid and proposal for the Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Industrial markets. In this role, you will work on electrical construction projects from bid and proposal through construction phase to completion, ensuring the work complies with all standards, specifications, and budgets.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures timely completion of all bids while maintaining high standards of safety, quality and customer satisfaction.
• Completes the handling of all aspects of the bid process from analyzing, to organization, and clarification of bid documents (plans, specs, RFP, etc.) to preparation of a written proposal. 
• Performs and supervises quantity surveys in a format that allows application of production rates to determine labor costs, estimated material costs and equipment costs.
• Performs and supervises take-offs from drawings; pricing change orders and conducting site visits to understand the constructability of projects. 
• Performs and supervises the implementation of plans and specifications to identify the types and grades of materials and equipment needed and to ensure compliance with project requirements. 
• Understands and applies cost fundamentals, maintaining current, accurate information on prices from suppliers and contractors. 
• Completes Bill of Materials (B.O.M) and obtaining Request for Pricing (RFP) from subcontractors and vendors 
• Under the direction of the Chief Cost Engineer provides complete electrical cost estimates for construction projects.
• Gathers and compiles data for use in bid proposal estimates, analyzing bid documents, determining the project’s scope and evaluating special conditions affecting the bid proposal.
• Calculates various statistical information related to quantity take-offs, creating material lists, soliciting material quotations, and figuring labor costs.
• Evaluates Sub-contractor bids and determining personnel and equipment needs
• Determines the projects scope and evaluates special conditions affecting the bid proposal.
• Calculates various statistical information related to quantity take-offs, creating material lists, soliciting material quotations, and figuring labor costs.
• Supervise other estimators and resources towards successful proposal completion
• Ability to support/manage multiple proposal opportunities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5 to 7 years of experience performing cost estimates for an electrical contractor.
• Experience performing complex design/build and conceptual estimating of large electrical projects.
• Strong electrical commercial/industrial/health care/federal project experience with contract values starting at $10million.
• Proficient with MS Office suite and Accubid.
• Familiar with scheduling software and CAD.
• Proven ability to develop specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish high quality work.
• Experience with detailed construction analyses and historical costs, take off quantities, developing schedules and preparing comprehensive cost estimates.
• Recent hands-on experience, proven ability to review project plans and specs, experience performing site visits, investigations and evaluating methods to construct challenging projects.
• Proven track record of successfully estimating electrical projects. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Electrical estimating experience on Transit, Data Ctr, Hospital projects. 
• Design Build, Design Bid Build and/or Design Assistant project experience

Abilities:

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.