Switchgear Estimator - 5K Power

• Review customer one-lines, specifications, equipment schedules, drawings, and bid documents.

• Develop complete estimates for low- and medium-voltage switchgear, switchboards, and distribution assemblies.

• Identify mains, feeders, breakers, switches, busing, CTs, PTs, metering, relays, controls, and protective devices.

• Generate accurate Bills of Material (BOMs) and estimate costs across material, fabrication, assembly, wiring, engineering, testing, QA/QC, packaging, and freight.

• Identify long-lead items, specialty components, non-standard requirements, and custom fabrication needs.

• Translate one-line diagrams into physical lineups, determining section counts, breaker arrangements, compartment needs, and cable entry access.

• Evaluate voltage, amperage, interrupting ratings, bus ratings, enclosure types, and service entrance requirements.

• Determine main bus, vertical bus, neutral/ground bus, feeder sections, tie sections, and auxiliary compartments.

• Identify missing information, technical conflicts, and design risks that impact pricing or constructability.

• Apply UL requirements for switchgear and switchboards during estimation.

• Verify component compatibility and account for required testing, NRTL certification, labeling, and documentation costs.

• Coordinate with engineering and manufacturing to ensure proposed designs can be built and certified properly.

• Request and evaluate pricing, availability, and lead times from preferred component manufacturers.

• Evaluate alternate manufacturers and equivalent components to address cost or schedule issues.

• Identify obsolete, restricted, or long-lead items prior to quote finalization.

• Estimate labor hours for enclosure/steel fabrication, bus fabrication, component mounting, control wiring, assembly, testing, and inspection.

• Coordinate with electrical, structural, VDC/BIM, and manufacturing engineering teams to evaluate heat dissipation, structural needs, and clearances.

• Utilize standard 5K Power configurations, BOMs, and labor assumptions to drive design-to-cost principles and product repeatability.

• Build and maintain the 5K Power switchgear estimating database (components, breakers, busing, labor, freight, historical costs).

• Track project results by comparing estimated versus actual costs to reduce change-order risk and improve tools.

• Serve as a technical checkpoint ensuring accurate scope, exclusions, assumptions, pricing validity, and risk mitigation before quote release.

• Estimate accuracy versus actual project cost (variance in material, labor, engineering, testing, and freight).

• Estimate turnaround time, quote conversion rates, and gross margin accuracy.

• BOM accuracy, completeness, and reduction of avoidable change-order exposure.

• Maintenance and accuracy of the switchgear estimating database and standardized product BOMs.

• • • Combination of office, engineering, manufacturing, and fabrication environments. 

    • Regular interaction with engineering, manufacturing, procurement, sales, project management, and vendors. 

    • Occasional site, vendor, or manufacturing visits may be required. 
       

    • Ability to work in and around manufacturing and fabrication environments as required. 

    • Ability to review equipment, components, drawings, and manufacturing processes in field and shop environments. 

    • Travel may be required for vendor meetings, manufacturing reviews, customer meetings, or project support. 

This position will play a key role in building 5K Power's switchgear and electrical distribution platform. The Switchgear Estimator will help establish standard configurations, BOMs, labor assumptions, vendor relationships, pricing databases, and estimating processes that allow 5K Power to respond faster, price more accurately, and manufacture more efficiently than traditional electrical equipment providers.