Senior Manager, Bidding & Estimating

Your Job

DEPCOM Power is currently hiring a Sr. Manager of Bidding and Estimating for our Scottsdale, AZ office. In this role, you will play a critical role in driving the success of our projects by leading the proposal and cost-estimation processes, ensuring accurate and competitive bids that align with our business objectives. This position offers the opportunity to leverage your expertise in renewable energy, project management, and cost analysis to shape the future of solar and energy storage infrastructure. You will also help build a durable, competitive advantage in the renewable space by seeking knowledge to understand our competitive position and lead a team who will craft creative commercial solutions to enhance our offerings to our customers. By working alongside Business Development, you will help meet our long-term goals by building a portfolio of projects that are additive to our business. This position is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

Our Team

DEPCOM Power is a leading provider of renewable energy solutions, specializing in utility scale solar and energy storage projects across the United States. As a project-centric organization, our commitment to innovation, quality, and sustainability drives us to deliver high-performance energy solutions that are superior to the alternatives.

What You Will Do Leadership & Strategy

- Motivate, energize, and develop the talent pool of estimators and execute the bidding and estimating strategy for DEPCOM Power.

- Guide, support, and challenge employees to grow their skills and achieve their potential.

- Collaborate with senior leadership to support long-term strategic initiatives, including optimizing bid processes and enhancing operational efficiency.

- Support the Director of Pre-Construction in ensuring each project opportunity has a well-established baseline, changelog of revisions and history, and proper accounting of inclusions and exclusions.

- Be a representative of the leadership community by practicing and coaching the bidding and estimating team via our Principle Based Management frameworks to help develop a positive talent and culture.

Bidding & Proposal Management

- Strategize the process of developing high-quality, competitive bid proposals for solar and energy storage projects, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness. All opportunities will advance a pre-read in anticipation of the review with the Executive Team and various stakeholders.

- Manage the end-to-end bidding process, including pre-bid analysis, RFP review, scope definition, and pricing strategies.

- Identify early and often, opportunities to seek knowledge from other stakeholders both internally and externally to the business. Determine which leveraged capabilities are needed to support an opportunity, without exercising constrained resources.

- Ensure proposals adhere to industry standards, regulatory requirements, and DEPCOM's preferred partnership goals.

Cost Estimation

- Lead the estimation of project costs, including materials, labor, equipment, and subcontractor services, ensuring accuracy and reliability from bid through transition to Project Controls.

- Develop and maintain cost models and databases to streamline estimation processes and inform decision-making and bid strategy.

- Utilize market intelligence and historical data to identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize pricing strategies.

- Seek knowledge from leveraged capabilities to help inform bid strategy and pricing decisions. Outline key risks and bets for each opportunity, to inform the recommended contingency with a key understanding of the range of outcomes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Work closely with leveraged capabilities, such as engineering, supply chain, and delivery teams to ensure alignment on project requirements and feasibility.

- Partner with business development and engineering teams to understand client needs and provide unique, competitive solutions.

- Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders during the bidding and estimation phase.

- Work with the Team to manage bid calendar and all deliverables, including initial bids, refreshed pricing / BAFO rounds, and final Contract Price reviews.

- Identify and mitigate risks associated with project estimates and proposals.

- Continuously evaluate and refine bidding and estimation processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and competitiveness.

- Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes impacting project costs and bidding strategies.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

- Leadership and team management experience, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams.

- Proven expertise in large capital projects

- Comprehensive knowledge of project cost estimation techniques, tools, and methodologies.

- Familiarity with estimating software for bid management.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling skills.

- Experience successfully engaging with internal and external stakeholders to drive optimal business outcomes.

- Experience developing strategic initiatives to meet or succeed in business needs.

What Will Put You Ahead

- Experience in bidding, estimating, and/or project management

- Leadership experience in Bidding, estimating and/or Project management

- 10 years of experience in the construction industry, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.

- Proven expertise in renewable energy projects.

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related field

- Knowledge of Microsoft software suites and Power BI.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts work to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).