Who We Are:  

GMB Power Line Services is a family-owned, West Virginia utility contractor. Our IBEW crews deploy rapidly from regional hubs, spanning the Gulf Coast, Northeast, Midwest, and beyond, to restore and maintain power infrastructure with uncompromising safety and quality. Committed to operational excellence, we’re growing our fleet and workforce while prioritizing a safer, more reliable energy grid. Join our tight-knit, union-proud team and help power progress in every community we serve. 
 
Key duties and responsibilities:  

Transmission & Distribution Estimating 
Prepare detailed estimates for electric utility transmission and distribution construction, maintenance, rebuild, upgrade, and system-hardening projects. 
Develop estimates for overhead and underground distribution projects, including pole replacement and transfers, conductor installation and replacement, line extensions, equipment installation, underground cable and conduit systems, and associated utility construction. 
Develop estimates for transmission projects, including new line construction, reconductoring, structure replacement, line rebuilds, foundations, conductor and OPGW installation, and related civil or access requirements. 
Perform detailed quantity takeoffs from drawings, specifications, utility standards, construction units, maps, staking sheets, bid schedules, and other project documents. 
Build labor estimates using appropriate crew compositions, IBEW classifications and wage rates, production assumptions, work methods, overtime requirements, per diem, travel, and other applicable labor costs. 
Estimate equipment requirements and utilization, including line trucks, bucket trucks, digger derricks, cranes, excavators, tensioning and pulling equipment, support vehicles, specialty equipment, and other project-specific resources. 
Develop material estimates for poles, structures, conductor, wire, cable, insulators, hardware, transformers, switches, protective devices, grounding materials, conduit, vaults, foundations, and other transmission and distribution materials. 
Solicit and evaluate vendor and subcontractor quotations as needed to support complete and competitive estimates. 
Identify scope gaps, exclusions, assumptions, alternates, allowances, schedule constraints, constructability concerns, and project risks that may affect pricing or execution. 
 
Bid Review & Estimate Development 
Review Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposal, scopes of work, technical specifications, utility construction standards, drawings, schedules, pricing sheets, and contract documents to identify estimating requirements. 
Attend pre-bid meetings, site walks, and project reviews as required to understand access, terrain, existing facilities, outage constraints, environmental conditions, logistics, and other factors affecting construction cost. 
Prepare estimates using unit-price, lump-sum, time-and-material, cost-plus, or other pricing structures required by the customer. 
Develop complete estimate workbooks and bid breakdowns that clearly document quantities, production rates, crew assumptions, material pricing, equipment, subcontractor costs, indirect costs, and other estimate inputs. 
Coordinate with operations and field leadership to validate crew composition, productivity assumptions, construction sequencing, equipment needs, and constructability. 
Coordinate with procurement and vendors to obtain current material and equipment pricing, lead times, and other cost information needed for the estimate. 
Prepare estimate summaries and supporting documentation for internal bid reviews and approval. 
Incorporate approved changes from bid reviews and finalize pricing in accordance with established estimating procedures and approval requirements. 
Maintain organized and complete estimating files, including bid documents, takeoffs, quotations, assumptions, clarifications, exclusions, and final estimate documentation. 
 
Estimating Accuracy & Continuous Improvement 
Maintain current knowledge of utility construction labor rates, material pricing, equipment costs, production rates, and industry practices affecting transmission and distribution estimating. 
Support post-bid and estimate-to-actual reviews by providing estimate assumptions and cost detail to help improve future estimating accuracy. 
Update estimating databases, historical cost information, production assumptions, and estimating tools as directed. 
Follow established estimating procedures, documentation standards, and internal approval processes. 
Protect confidential customer, vendor, pricing, and company information used in the estimating process. 
 
Other: 
Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and organizational goals, including tasks outside of the primary job function as operational needs evolve. 

 
GMB Powerline Services, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.