Estimation Specialist - Complex Projects

Essential Energy is seeking an Estimation Specialist for Complex Projects who will work from home in a hybrid environment. The role involves producing accurate cost estimates for large-scale electrical infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and maintaining resource databases. Candidates should have experience in cost estimation, particularly in the electrical sector, and possess relevant qualifications. The position emphasizes professional communication and analytical skills.
Job Description

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About The Role

We are currently recruiting a Estimation Specialist to join our Network Planning and Development team. This role will be based within the Essential Energy footprint with the ability to work from home in a hybrid work environment.

The Estimation Specialist – Complex Projects is responsible for the production of cost estimates which conform to industry standard accuracy classes, to inform business-critical network investment decisions. Responsible for supporting capability development and continuous improvement in project estimation for large-scale electrical infrastructure projects. Delivering best practice electrical infrastructure estimation systems and processes, including design and construction methodology, first principles and rate based estimating methods, and risk identification and contingency quantification.

The Estimation Specialist– Complex Projects is also responsible for the maintenance of current labour and materials resource rate and productivity database to maximise estimating accuracy and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for providing assurance over the timely preparation and accuracy of estimates for large scale commercial and internal capital projects
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) estimate classifications in accordance with Essential Energy’s stage gate requirements
• Responsible for supporting the accuracy of resource and productivity rates for labour and materials
• Responsible for communicating all attributes relating to estimated project costs, identification of risks, and quantification of contingencies to diverse stakeholders, including frontline, senior leadership, executives, board members, and external proponents, with a focus on professionalism and commercial acumen
• Ensure estimation inputs comply with the WHS Act and the organisation’s OH&S obligations incorporating provisions for the safe design, construction, and commissioning of works

About You

In order to be successful in this position, you will possess:
• Demonstrated experience in cost estimation and/or bid preparation for complex commercial or industrial projects preferably with significant recent experience in the electrical zone substation, sub-transmission and distribution sectors.
• Professional application of the required qualification in the Energy/Electrical and/or Utilities Industry preferably in an organisation delivering design and construction projects

Required Qualifications
• Associate Diploma or Associate Degree of Engineering (Electrical or Civil) or
• Demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications.

Desired Skills
• Professional quantitative, written, and verbal skills to prepare clear and concise documentation and communicate the outcomes with relevant areas of the business.
• Superior problem solving and analytical skills, with demonstrated ability to undertake quantitative analysis and consider the holistic impacts and effects of proposed solutions.
• High level skills in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Competency using industry standard database estimation software or the demonstrated ability to acquire similar software skills.
• Sound financial and commercial acumen.

Why Essential Energy

We offer competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience.

Essential Energy has a strong focus on maintaining work life balance. This role provides opportunities for hybrid and flexible work arrangements.

For information on our employee benefits (such as Fitness Passport, Apple, JB Hi-Fi and Dell Employee Purchase Programs and 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers) please visitour Employee Benefits page.

We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women .

We’re a business with a huge range of operational and corporate roles aimed at connecting our communities.

As a pivotal player in the energy future of NSW and the country – we cover 95% of NSW and parts of southern QLD - we are an organisation with a wider variety of roles than you may first think.

Whether you want to work remotely, in a coastal region or rurally, we will invest in you, develop you and help you shape a career in energy that will give you future opportunities you may never have realised in a sector where there is so much to explore.

For further information on the role details and salary please contact Jason Doyle on 0417 082 201 or Jason.Doyle@essentialenergy.com.au

Applications close on 30 March 2025 at 11:55pm.

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Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.