This Opportunity
WSP is seeking a Senior Electrical Estimator to support WMATA capital projects
as part of the owner’s project controls and estimating team. The successful
candidate will serve as an electrical estimating subject matter expert and
independently prepare, review, reconcile, and defend cost estimates for transit
facilities and rail systems from early concept through construction and change
control. This is a remote position with some travel.
This role requires substantial electrical construction knowledge, disciplined
basis-of-estimate documentation, and the ability to evaluate incomplete design
information while clearly identifying assumptions, exclusions, risks, and
required clarifications.
Your Impact
Primary Responsibilities:
Develop independent conceptual, planning, design-stage, bid,
issued-for-construction, change-order, and construction cost estimates for
electrical and related systems.
Perform quantity takeoffs and develop labor, material, equipment,
subcontract, testing, commissioning, temporary-work, escalation, contingency,
markup, and indirect-cost components.
Prepare crew-based and unit-price estimates using drawings, specifications,
narratives, site information, as-built records, technical requirements,
vendor quotations, and stakeholder input.
Evaluate constructability, phasing, outages, limited work windows, access
restrictions, maintenance of operations, testing, commissioning, and
interfaces with civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, rail, and
systems work.
Prepare basis-of-estimate narratives, assumptions, exclusions,
clarifications, estimate classifications, cost risks, and reconciliation
documentation.
Review consultant, contractor, and peer estimates for scope completeness,
quantity accuracy, labor productivity, pricing, markups, escalation,
contingency, and compliance with estimate requirements.
Develop and maintain historical cost data, benchmarks, bid tabs, vendor
quotations, labor rates, productivity factors, and estimate audit trails.
Lead estimate reviews and cost reconciliation meetings and explain estimate
methodology and major cost drivers to project managers, engineers,
procurement staff, change-control personnel, and senior leadership.
Identify missing or conflicting design information and prepare requests for
information and estimating clarifications.
Provide technical direction, workload coordination, mentoring, and
quality-control support to electrical estimators and multidisciplinary
estimating teams.
Comply with WMATA, WSP, project controls, document-control, safety, ethics,
and confidentiality requirements.
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or a
closely related discipline; or an equivalent combination of relevant
education, electrical trade training, and directly applicable electrical
estimating experience.
Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible electrical construction
estimating experience, including at least 5 years estimating major transit,
rail, utility, transportation, industrial, or similarly complex public
infrastructure projects.
Demonstrated experience as an electrical estimator. General building, civil,
architectural, structural, or mechanical estimating experience alone does not
satisfy this requirement.
Demonstrated ability to independently develop detailed conceptual through bid
or issued-for-construction estimates, including quantity takeoff, crew-based
labor, material pricing, equipment, subcontract costs, indirect costs,
escalation, contingency, markups, and schedule or phasing impacts.
Hands-on estimating experience with multiple electrical scopes, such as
medium- and low-voltage distribution, substations, switchgear, transformers,
generators or standby power, UPS and batteries, grounding and bonding,
lighting, fire alarm, traction power, automatic train control or signaling
interfaces, communications, SCADA or controls, CCTV, access control,
security, and associated raceway and cabling.
Ability to interpret electrical single-line diagrams, plans, specifications,
technical reports, design narratives, equipment schedules, as-built
documents, and construction sequencing. Working knowledge of the NEC and
other codes and standards applicable to electrical construction.
Experience reviewing contractor or consultant estimates, identifying scope
gaps and pricing discrepancies, documenting findings, and supporting estimate
reconciliation or change-order evaluation.
Ability to prepare clear basis-of-estimate narratives, assumptions,
exclusions, clarifications, cost-risk discussions, and estimate backup
suitable for management and audit review.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and at least one electronic takeoff platform
such as Bluebeam Revu, PlanSwift, or On-Screen Takeoff. Ability to learn and
use client estimating, project-management, change-control, and
document-control systems.
Ability to lead estimate reviews, communicate technical and cost issues to
varied audiences, prioritize concurrent assignments, and produce defensible
work with limited supervision.
Ability to visit active construction sites and transit facilities, comply
with required safety and access rules, and satisfy client background,
badging, and system-access requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
Direct experience supporting an owner, program manager, construction manager,
independent cost estimator, or transit authority.
Experience estimating WMATA or comparable transit-agency facilities and
systems, including traction power, AC power, automatic train control or
signaling interfaces, communications, SCADA, fire and life safety, security,
station systems, tunnels, rail yards, or maintenance facilities.
Electrical field, supervisory, project-management, or contractor-estimating
experience supporting practical knowledge of means and methods, productivity,
work restrictions, outages, and commissioning.
Experience with change-order estimates, claims support, cost reconciliation,
cost and price analysis, or negotiation support
Experience developing early-design estimates and applying AACE estimate
classification, uncertainty, contingency, escalation, and risk principles.
Advanced Excel proficiency and experience with electrical or
heavy-construction estimating platforms such as Trimble Accubid, Conest
IntelliBid, McCormick Systems, Vison Infosoft Electrical Bid Manager, Destiny
Estimator, Trade Service Pricing, EPIC Pricing Serivce, HCSS HeavyBid, Sage
Estimating, CostX, Success Estimator, RSMeans, or comparable applications.
Familiarity with project and document systems such as Procore, SharePoint, or
comparable change-control and collaboration platforms.
Knowledge of NECA labor units, prevailing-wage or Davis-Bacon requirements,
union labor agreements, market-based material pricing, vendor quotation
analysis, and public-sector procurement practices.
Professional credential such as AACE Certified Estimating Professional, AACE
Certified Cost Professional, ASPE Certified Professional Estimator, PMI
Project Management Professional, Certified Construction Manager, or
Professional Engineer.
Experience mentoring estimators, coordinating on-call estimating resources,
or serving as electrical discipline lead for multidisciplinary estimates.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and
financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include
coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement
savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental
leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance
at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $165,000-$185,000/year
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith
believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful
applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to
internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to
ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits
and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s
sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $165,000-$185,000/year
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith
believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of
Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge,
skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic
location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the
posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on
circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by
local
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading
engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local
communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors
and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in
the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more
than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our
clients to help communities prosper.
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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs.
Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical,
dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing
health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their
careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be
essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to
get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National
Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
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