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Lighting Maintenance Inc. (LMI) is seeking an experienced Electrical Construction Project Manager / Estimator to estimate, manage, and successfully deliver commercial, municipal, roadway, site-lighting, sports-lighting, and related electrical construction projects.
This position requires direct, hands-on experience working in electrical construction. We are looking for someone who understands how electrical work is estimated, planned, built, managed, documented, billed, and closed out in the field.
The ideal candidate can take a project from initial plans and specifications through estimating, award, procurement, manpower planning, construction, change management, billing, punch list, and final closeout while maintaining control of project cost, schedule, documentation, and profitability.
This is not simply an administrative project-management role. The person in this position must understand electrical construction well enough to communicate effectively with electricians and foremen, identify field challenges before they become problems, recognize additional scope, and make sound operational and financial decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Review electrical plans, specifications, drawings, bid documents, scopes of work, contracts, and project requirements.
- Prepare detailed electrical construction estimates.
- Perform quantity takeoffs and develop labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, and other project costs.
- Manage assigned electrical construction projects from award through final completion and billing.
- Develop and maintain project budgets, schedules, manpower plans, material requirements, and equipment requirements.
- Coordinate electricians, foremen, subcontractors, suppliers, equipment, traffic control, and other project resources.
- Work directly with field leadership to determine how work will be performed before crews mobilize to the jobsite.
- Manage material procurement and identify long-lead electrical equipment early in the project.
- Review drawings and specifications for conflicts, omissions, constructability concerns, and scope gaps.
- Prepare and manage RFIs, submittals, purchase orders, change orders, notices, and project correspondence.
- Identify extra work, changed conditions, and work outside of the original contract as they occur.
- Ensure additional work is properly documented, priced, approved, and billed.
- Track labor hours, material costs, equipment usage, subcontractor costs, committed costs, and overall job profitability.
- Compare actual project performance against the estimate and budget throughout the life of the project.
- Monitor labor productivity and take corrective action when project performance falls outside of expectations.
- Attend project meetings and communicate with customers, general contractors, engineers, inspectors, utilities, and government agencies.
- Manage project billing documentation, schedules of values, T&M tickets, change-order backup, and supporting documentation.
- Manage punch lists, as-built documentation, O&M manuals, warranties, and final project closeout.
- Maintain accurate and organized project records.
- Take full ownership of assigned projects and remain accountable for schedule, documentation, communication, cost control, execution, and financial performance.
Electrical Construction Experience
Candidates should have direct experience managing and/or estimating electrical construction scopes that may include:
- Commercial electrical construction
- Site and parking-lot lighting
- Roadway and street lighting
- Sports and athletic-field lighting
- Exterior lighting systems
- LED lighting upgrades
- Lighting controls
- Electrical panels and distribution systems
- Feeders and branch circuits
- Underground conduit and duct-bank systems
- Trenching, boring, excavation, and underground electrical installations
- Poles and pole foundations
- Fixtures, wiring, and controls
- Electrical service and distribution equipment
- Bucket-truck and aerial electrical work
- Electrical troubleshooting, repairs, renovations, and upgrades
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of project management and/or estimating experience specifically involving electrical construction
- Experience working for an electrical contractor, electrical construction company, or closely related electrical trade contractor
- Demonstrated ability to estimate electrical construction projects
- Demonstrated experience managing electrical construction projects and field personnel
- Strong knowledge of electrical construction methods, materials, labor requirements, equipment, sequencing, and field operations
- Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, specifications, one-line diagrams, details, contracts, and scopes of work
- Strong understanding of RFIs, submittals, change orders, scheduling, procurement, billing, and construction administration
- Ability to recognize scope gaps, changed conditions, and work outside of the original contract
- Ability to understand jobsite conditions and communicate effectively with electricians, foremen, and field supervisors
- Strong project cost-control and financial-management skills
- Experience tracking labor, materials, equipment, subcontractors, and overall job profitability
- Ability to manage multiple active projects simultaneously
- Strong organizational skills, follow-through, communication, and attention to detail
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, estimating systems, project-management software, email, and cloud-based construction documentation systems
Preferred Experience
Experience in any of the following areas is strongly preferred:
- Commercial electrical contracting
- Municipal and government electrical construction
- Roadway and street-lighting construction
- Sports-lighting construction
- Site-lighting projects
- Public works projects
- Prevailing-wage projects
- Government contracts
- Unit-price contracts
- Time-and-material electrical work
- Electrical change-order estimating
- Traffic-control coordination
- Bucket trucks, digger derricks, cranes, and specialized electrical construction equipment
- Underground utility coordination
- Electrical subcontractor and vendor management
Who We Are Looking For
We are looking for an electrical construction professional who understands both the office and field sides of the business.
This position is not intended for someone whose primary experience has been managing software implementations, administrative programs, office projects, or non-construction initiatives.
The ideal candidate has spent enough time around electrical construction to review a set of plans, walk a jobsite, speak with a foreman, and understand what labor, equipment, materials, coordination, and sequencing will be required to successfully complete the work.
Successful project management at LMI requires more than maintaining a schedule and completing paperwork.
You must understand:
- Labor productivity
- Construction sequencing
- Material requirements
- Equipment needs
- Field conditions
- Scope management
- Change orders
- Project documentation
- Billing
- Cost control
- Project profitability
We need someone who identifies issues early rather than reacting to them after the fact.
The right candidate will be comfortable asking difficult questions, pushing for timely decisions, documenting changed conditions, challenging incomplete information, protecting contractual rights, and ensuring field teams are properly prepared before they arrive onsite.
We are looking for someone who thinks ahead, communicates clearly, takes ownership, and follows through.
Compensation
Compensation will be based on electrical construction experience, estimating ability, project-management experience, and demonstrated success managing profitable electrical construction projects.
Benefits
Lighting Maintenance Inc. offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- 401(k) with company match
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Employee assistance program
- Paid time off
About Lighting Maintenance Inc.
Lighting Maintenance Inc. is a commercial electrical and lighting contractor serving the Mid-Atlantic region.
Our work includes:
- Commercial electrical construction
- Roadway and street lighting
- Site lighting
- Sports and athletic-field lighting
- Commercial lighting systems
- Lighting maintenance
- Electrical service
- Municipal and public-sector projects
- Transportation and government projects
Our projects require experienced electrical construction professionals, specialized equipment, strong field execution, detailed project controls, and consistent attention to safety, quality, schedule, and profitability.
Lighting Maintenance Inc. (LMI) is seeking an experienced Electrical Construction Project Manager / Estimator to estimate, manage, and successfully deliver commercial, municipal, roadway, site-lighting, sports-lighting, and related electrical construction projects.
This position requires direct, hands-on experience working in electrical construction. We are looking for someone who understands how electrical work is estimated, planned, built, managed, documented, billed, and closed out in the field.
The ideal candidate can take a project from initial plans and specifications through estimating, award, procurement, manpower planning, construction, change management, billing, punch list, and final closeout while maintaining control of project cost, schedule, documentation, and profitability.
This is not simply an administrative project-management role. The person in this position must understand electrical construction well enough to communicate effectively with electricians and foremen, identify field challenges before they become problems, recognize additional scope, and make sound operational and financial decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Review electrical plans, specifications, drawings, bid documents, scopes of work, contracts, and project requirements.
- Prepare detailed electrical construction estimates.
- Perform quantity takeoffs and develop labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, and other project costs.
- Manage assigned electrical construction projects from award through final completion and billing.
- Develop and maintain project budgets, schedules, manpower plans, material requirements, and equipment requirements.
- Coordinate electricians, foremen, subcontractors, suppliers, equipment, traffic control, and other project resources.
- Work directly with field leadership to determine how work will be performed before crews mobilize to the jobsite.
- Manage material procurement and identify long-lead electrical equipment early in the project.
- Review drawings and specifications for conflicts, omissions, constructability concerns, and scope gaps.
- Prepare and manage RFIs, submittals, purchase orders, change orders, notices, and project correspondence.
- Identify extra work, changed conditions, and work outside of the original contract as they occur.
- Ensure additional work is properly documented, priced, approved, and billed.
- Track labor hours, material costs, equipment usage, subcontractor costs, committed costs, and overall job profitability.
- Compare actual project performance against the estimate and budget throughout the life of the project.
- Monitor labor productivity and take corrective action when project performance falls outside of expectations.
- Attend project meetings and communicate with customers, general contractors, engineers, inspectors, utilities, and government agencies.
- Manage project billing documentation, schedules of values, T&M tickets, change-order backup, and supporting documentation.
- Manage punch lists, as-built documentation, O&M manuals, warranties, and final project closeout.
- Maintain accurate and organized project records.
- Take full ownership of assigned projects and remain accountable for schedule, documentation, communication, cost control, execution, and financial performance.
Electrical Construction Experience
Candidates should have direct experience managing and/or estimating electrical construction scopes that may include:
- Commercial electrical construction
- Site and parking-lot lighting
- Roadway and street lighting
- Sports and athletic-field lighting
- Exterior lighting systems
- LED lighting upgrades
- Lighting controls
- Electrical panels and distribution systems
- Feeders and branch circuits
- Underground conduit and duct-bank systems
- Trenching, boring, excavation, and underground electrical installations
- Poles and pole foundations
- Fixtures, wiring, and controls
- Electrical service and distribution equipment
- Bucket-truck and aerial electrical work
- Electrical troubleshooting, repairs, renovations, and upgrades
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of project management and/or estimating experience specifically involving electrical construction
- Experience working for an electrical contractor, electrical construction company, or closely related electrical trade contractor
- Demonstrated ability to estimate electrical construction projects
- Demonstrated experience managing electrical construction projects and field personnel
- Strong knowledge of electrical construction methods, materials, labor requirements, equipment, sequencing, and field operations
- Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, specifications, one-line diagrams, details, contracts, and scopes of work
- Strong understanding of RFIs, submittals, change orders, scheduling, procurement, billing, and construction administration
- Ability to recognize scope gaps, changed conditions, and work outside of the original contract
- Ability to understand jobsite conditions and communicate effectively with electricians, foremen, and field supervisors
- Strong project cost-control and financial-management skills
- Experience tracking labor, materials, equipment, subcontractors, and overall job profitability
- Ability to manage multiple active projects simultaneously
- Strong organizational skills, follow-through, communication, and attention to detail
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, estimating systems, project-management software, email, and cloud-based construction documentation systems
Preferred Experience
Experience in any of the following areas is strongly preferred:
- Commercial electrical contracting
- Municipal and government electrical construction
- Roadway and street-lighting construction
- Sports-lighting construction
- Site-lighting projects
- Public works projects
- Prevailing-wage projects
- Government contracts
- Unit-price contracts
- Time-and-material electrical work
- Electrical change-order estimating
- Traffic-control coordination
- Bucket trucks, digger derricks, cranes, and specialized electrical construction equipment
- Underground utility coordination
- Electrical subcontractor and vendor management
Who We Are Looking For
We are looking for an electrical construction professional who understands both the office and field sides of the business.
This position is not intended for someone whose primary experience has been managing software implementations, administrative programs, office projects, or non-construction initiatives.
The ideal candidate has spent enough time around electrical construction to review a set of plans, walk a jobsite, speak with a foreman, and understand what labor, equipment, materials, coordination, and sequencing will be required to successfully complete the work.
Successful project management at LMI requires more than maintaining a schedule and completing paperwork.
You must understand:
- Labor productivity
- Construction sequencing
- Material requirements
- Equipment needs
- Field conditions
- Scope management
- Change orders
- Project documentation
- Billing
- Cost control
- Project profitability
We need someone who identifies issues early rather than reacting to them after the fact.
The right candidate will be comfortable asking difficult questions, pushing for timely decisions, documenting changed conditions, challenging incomplete information, protecting contractual rights, and ensuring field teams are properly prepared before they arrive onsite.
We are looking for someone who thinks ahead, communicates clearly, takes ownership, and follows through.
Compensation
Compensation will be based on electrical construction experience, estimating ability, project-management experience, and demonstrated success managing profitable electrical construction projects.
Benefits
Lighting Maintenance Inc. offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- 401(k) with company match
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Employee assistance program
- Paid time off
About Lighting Maintenance Inc.
Lighting Maintenance Inc. is a commercial electrical and lighting contractor serving the Mid-Atlantic region.
Our work includes:
- Commercial electrical construction
- Roadway and street lighting
- Site lighting
- Sports and athletic-field lighting
- Commercial lighting systems
- Lighting maintenance
- Electrical service
- Municipal and public-sector projects
- Transportation and government projects
Our projects require experienced electrical construction professionals, specialized equipment, strong field execution, detailed project controls, and consistent attention to safety, quality, schedule, and profitability.
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Who's Hiring
- Jobot33
- Rosendin Electric28
- InPwr9
- Turner Construction Company9
- Kolb Electric8
Top Industries Hiring
- Staffing & Recruiting34
- Construction & Real Estate34
- Energy7
- Manufacturing4
- Transportation & Logistics3
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in electrical estimator jobs.
- 2-5 years of electrical estimating experience in commercial or industrial construction
- Proficiency in estimating software such as Accubid, Trimble, or ConEst
- Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, specifications, and one-line diagrams
- Knowledge of NEC codes, labor rates, and material pricing for electrical systems
- Experience preparing detailed material takeoffs and labor-hour estimates
- Associate or bachelor's degree in electrical engineering technology, construction management, or equivalent field experience
Tips for Your Electrical Estimator Job Search
Quantify your bid volume on your resume
List the annual dollar value of bids you've managed or contributed to, the project types you've estimated, and the software you used. Hiring managers screen for candidates who've worked at relevant project scales, so specifics beat vague descriptions every time.
Highlight proficiency in estimating software
Call out your experience with tools like Accubid, Trimble, or Bluebeam in a dedicated skills section. Many job postings screen for specific platforms before reading the rest of your resume, so burying this in a job description paragraph means you'll get filtered out.
Target listings by project type and delivery method
Filter openings by the construction delivery method the employer uses, such as design-build, design-bid-build, or EPC. Your takeoff and bid-tab experience in one method doesn't always translate directly, so matching on project delivery type sharpens your fit from the first line.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists electrical estimator openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a sample scope-of-work walkthrough
Interviewers at electrical contractors frequently ask you to walk through how you'd estimate a specific project type. Practice narrating your takeoff process aloud, including how you handle allowances, labor burden, and subcontractor quotes, before your first screen call.
Negotiate on base using total project exposure
When discussing compensation, anchor your ask to the total value of bids you've owned, not just your years of experience. Estimators who can show they've independently managed large bids command higher base offers than those who cite tenure alone.
Electrical Estimator Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most electrical estimators?
The companies hiring the most electrical estimators right now include Jobot, Rosendin Electric, and InPwr, with the largest share of openings in Texas, California, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand tends to concentrate at mid-size to large electrical contractors with active commercial or industrial project pipelines.
How many electrical estimator jobs are remote?
About 24% of electrical estimator openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting that most estimation work is office-based and tied to project site coordination. The sub-areas most likely to offer remote flexibility are takeoff and quantity surveying roles at national contractors where site visits are handled by a separate field team.
How do you become an electrical estimator?
Most electrical estimators start in the field as electricians or project engineers, building hands-on knowledge of labor hours and material costs before moving to an estimating desk. From there, learning takeoff software, studying NEC code applications, and shadowing senior estimators on live bids accelerates the transition. Certifications from organizations like ASPE can strengthen your candidacy when you're ready to apply for dedicated estimating roles.
Can you get hired as an electrical estimator with little or no experience?
Yes, some electrical contractors hire junior or apprentice estimators who come from an electrician apprenticeship or a construction management program. Your strongest assets at that stage are field experience with conduit, panel work, or service installation, since you already understand labor complexity in ways a pure office candidate does not. Targeting smaller contractors who train in-house gives you the best entry point.
What does the electrical estimator interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a phone screen covering your estimating software experience and the types of projects you've bid. A hiring manager interview follows, where you'll often walk through your estimating workflow on a hypothetical project. Some employers add a practical takeoff exercise using a set of drawings before extending an offer, particularly for mid-level and senior roles.
Where can I find and apply to electrical estimator jobs?
You can find and apply to electrical estimator jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and project specialization, then apply directly to each listing from the same page.
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