Hiring: Estimator - Transmission Company: Brink Constructors, Inc. Location: Princeton, MN Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 07:42:16 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : Assembly About the job Experience: •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. •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. Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •: Position is based at the Brink office in Princeton, MN and requires approximately 10% - 20% travel for site visits and client meetings. •Strong command of Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookups, and cost model construction. •Demonstrated capacity to read and interpret plan-and-profile drawings, blueprints, staking sheets, and construction specifications. •Demonstrated capacity 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. •Prior experience pricing time-and-equipment, unit-price, or MSA/blanket work against a contract rate schedule. •Operational familiarity with Minnesota and Upper Midwest operating conditions — frost depth and winter construction, matting and access requirements, wetland and environmental work windows, and seasonal restrictions. •Understanding of IBEW collective bargaining agreements, labor classifications, and applicable prevailing wage requirements. Compensation: •$90,000 - $120,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!