About the role
Compensation: $95,000 - $120,000
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.