Estimator - Transmission
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). The page already shows job title, so we should not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content: About Us (company description) maybe we can treat as "About the role"? Actually "About Us" is company overview; could be "About the role"? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should map content accordingly.
We have:
- About Us: company description. Could be placed under "About the role"? Not exactly. Perhaps we can include a brief "About the company" but not in list of allowed headings. The instruction says use those headings for section headings; but we can also include other headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies those are examples; we can use those headings when appropriate. Probably we should include sections: About the role (maybe the description of role), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required and Preferred?), Qualifications (maybe education?), Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have Pay: $90k-$125k.
Schedule: Not mentioned except location/travel requirements: 10%-20% travel. Not a schedule like full-time/part-time. Could we infer schedule? Not given. So we should not create Schedule section unless posting actually states them. It does not state work schedule (e.g., full-time). So omit Schedule.
Benefits: listed under "What You'll Get": 401(k), Paid Holidays and PTO, Parental Leave, Medical, Dental, Vision, Additional Voluntary benefits, Employee Discounts, Company paid Health Plan, Long Term Disability, 1X Base Salary life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program. So we can create Benefits section.
Requirements: The "Required What You'll Bring" includes 2+ years experience, qualifying experience, Excel, ability to read drawings, manage multiple requests, comfort interacting, valid driver's license, pre-screen drug/background/MVR. That's requirements.
Preferred: "Preferred" includes prior experience pricing T&E, understanding IBEW, NESC/OSHA, proficiency with estimating software, Bluebeam/AutoCAD/GIS, Bachelor's degree. Could be Qualifications or Skills. We could split: Qualifications (education, certifications) and Skills (technical). But we have both.
We could make sections: About the role (maybe the description of role under "About This Role"), Responsibilities (Primary Responsibilities + General Estimating Support + Estimate Accuracy & Cost Feedback + Collaboration & Client Support), Requirements (Required), Qualifications (Preferred education/degree), Skills (technical skills like Excel, software, Bluebeam, etc.), Benefits, Pay.
We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Estimator". Not used.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, visa sponsorship, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
About the role
Brink Constructors, Inc. is an electrical contractor with over 75 years of experience in high-voltage transmission line and substation erection. ... The Estimator is a Rapid City, SD –based estimating role within Brink's Pre-Construction department. ...
But we need to avoid duplication: The "About Us" and "About This Role" both contain description. We'll combine into About the role section. Then Responsibilities: list bullet points. We need to preserve all substantive info: that means we need to include all responsibilities listed. Could be long; we need to include them as- items.
Similarly for Requirements: list bullet points.
Preferred: maybe Qualifications.
Skills: maybe list technical skills.
Benefits: list bullet points.
Pay: maybe a
with pay range. We must not include location/travel as a separate section unless we have Schedule? Not needed. We must not include "Location/Travel Requirements" as a heading; we could fold into a short
under About the role or Responsibilities? Probably better to include a short paragraph under About the role: "Position is based at the Brink office in Rapid City, SD and requires approximately 10% - 20% travel for site visits and client meetings." We must not include pre-screen drug/background/MVR as a separate heading; could be part of Requirements. We must not include EEO, visa sponsorship, etc. Now craft HTML. We'll need to ensure we don't create empty sections. Let's draft. First, About the role: Combine About Us and About This Role. Paragraph: "Brink Constructors, Inc. is an electrical contractor with over 75 years of experience in high-voltage transmission line and substation erection. With a long and industrious history, our experienced team continues to help power the nation now and into the future. At Brink, our success stems from the skilled personnel that we employ and the philosophy we instill to follow and uphold our core fundamental ideals including Safety First. Becoming a member of the Brink team is more than “just a job” or satisfactory employment—at Brink, we build careers, and we invest in the future of our people. Bring your skills to light and power your future with our team. The Estimator is a Rapid City, SD –based estimating role within Brink's Pre-Construction department. The primary responsibility of this position is producing time-and-equipment (T&E) estimates, work-order pricing, and change-order pricing for two key utility clients served under master service, blanket, and alliance-type agreements. This work is high-volume, fast-turnaround, and rate-schedule driven: the estimator builds crew and equipment hour models against contract rate sheets rather than assembling full lump-sum bid packages. When T&E workload allows, this position supports the broader estimating team on hard-bid and unit-price transmission and distribution pursuits — take-offs, quantity verification, vendor solicitation, and estimate assembly. The Estimator reports to the Lead Estimator – Transmission, who reviews and approves all deliverables before release. Position is based at the Brink office in Rapid City, SD and requires approximately 10% - 20% travel for site visits and client meetings." That seems comprehensive. Now Responsibilities: combine Primary Responsibilities, General Estimating Support, Estimate Accuracy & Cost Feedback, Collaboration & Client Support. We'll create a
- with each bullet as a responsibility sentence.
We need to preserve all details; we can break into multiple
- items. Let's list them: - Prepare T&E estimates, work-order pricing, and budgetary pricing for assigned utility clients, applying the labor classifications, equipment rates, and markup structures defined in each client's contract rate schedule. - Build labor estimates from crew composition and productivity — determining the correct crew makeup (foreman, journeyman lineman, apprentice, groundman, operator), crew count, shift structure, and hour build-up for each scope of work. - Develop equipment hour and duration estimates for digger derricks, cranes, bucket trucks, dozers, matting equipment, and support vehicles, distinguishing operated, standby, and bare-rental rate applications per contract terms. - Price material, subcontracted work, rental, per diem, subsistence, travel, and mobilization/demobilization in accordance with the allowable cost categories and markup limits of the governing agreement. - Turn around routine T&E pricing requests within client-required timeframes — often days rather than weeks. - Estimate maintenance, small-capital, emergency restoration, and storm-response work, including scopes with incomplete or evolving design information. - Price change orders and extra work orders on active projects, confirming scope and schedule impact before pricing is released. - Document all estimate assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, and rate-schedule references so that pricing is traceable and defensible during client review and audit. - Maintain current, accurate copies of each client's rate schedules, escalation provisions, and contract billing terms. - Perform quantity take-offs for structures, foundations, conductor and OPGW, access roads, matting, and restoration from plan-and-profile drawings, specifications, and bid documents. - Solicit and log vendor and subcontractor quotations; assist with bid leveling and scope comparison. - Prepare staking sheets, bid hour sheets, and budget worksheets using company estimating tools and templates. - Assist in assembling bid forms, schedules of values, and submittal packages to client formatting requirements. - Review bid documents, addenda, and specifications and summarize commercial and technical requirements for the estimating team. - Conduct or participate in site visits to verify access, terrain, soil conditions, staging areas, and constructability assumptions. - Participate in post-job and post-bid reviews, reconciling estimated hours and equipment usage against actual field costs and T&E billing; identify variance drivers, capture lessons learned, and adjust future assumptions and department templates accordingly. - Collect and maintain historical unit cost and productivity data specific to the assigned clients and to Minnesota operating conditions. - Verify that all pricing released to a client is complete, arithmetically correct, and consistent with the governing contract before submitting it to the Lead Estimator for review and approval. - Serve as a consistent, responsive estimating point of contact for the assigned client accounts, building working relationships with client project managers, coordinators, and contract administrators. - Coordinate daily with Brink project managers, superintendents, and general foremen to ground crew, equipment, and schedule assumptions in actual field capability and current resource availability. - Communicate workload, pricing deadlines, and risk items to the Lead Estimator proactively; escalate scope ambiguity, contract questions, rate discrepancies, expiring rates, and scope falling outside the governing agreement rather than assuming. That seems all. Now Requirements (Required What You'll Bring): - 2+ years of relevant experience. - Qualifying experience includes estimating, project engineering, or project controls in electric transmission and distribution (T&D) construction — or direct field experience in the trade (lineman, operator, general foreman, superintendent) with demonstrated cost and quantity aptitude, including working knowledge of overhead T&D construction and maintenance means and methods. - Strong command of Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookups, and cost model construction. - Ability to read and interpret plan-and-profile drawings, blueprints, staking sheets, and construction specifications. - Ability to manage multiple concurrent pricing requests against firm deadlines. - Comfort interacting directly with client representatives and field personnel. - Valid driver's license. - Upon offer, employees will be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and MVR check. Now Qualifications (Preferred education/degree etc.): - Prior experience pricing time-and-equipment, unit-price, or MSA/blanket work against a contract rate schedule. - Understanding of IBEW collective bargaining agreements, labor classifications, and applicable prevailing wage requirements. - Working knowledge of NESC standards and OSHA 1926 Subpart V requirements. - Proficiency with estimating software (HCSS/HeavyBid, B2W, InEight, or equivalent). - Proficiency with Bluebeam Revu, AutoCAD, or GIS tools. - Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field. Now Skills: maybe we could separate technical skills like Excel, software, Bluebeam, etc. But we already have Excel in Requirements, and software in Preferred. Could combine but we need a Skills section if we have content. The instruction says use headings like Skills. We could create a Skills section for technical proficiencies not covered elsewhere. However we already have Excel under Requirements, software under Preferred, Bluebeam under Preferred. Might be redundant to split. Perhaps we can make Skills section for "Strong command of Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookups, and cost model construction. Ability