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As a leading turnkey specialty contractor specializing in Automation, Electric, Energy, and Power Services, our team tackles challenging, cutting-edge projects that provide opportunities to build new skills, confidence, and gain valuable hands-on experience in a variety of different industries. We tackle industrial electrical installations, advanced automation systems, and renewable energy solutions.\nSince our founding as a family-owned company in 1988, we've grown while staying true to our core values. Starting your career with Knobelsdorff (KE) means joining a culture that values your contributions, moves quickly, takes calculated risks, and celebrates team members who step up and own their work.\nIf you're ready to join a team where your voice matters, your growth is supported, and your impact is celebrated, KE is the place for you.\n What You'll Do\nManage industrial and commercial electrical field service and project-based work from RFP through closeout. This role owns project scope, schedule, budget, customer communication, field coordination, and financial performance. This position will also support estimating, customer site walks, proposal development, change-order pricing, and other Solutions Team priorities. This position will primarily work in and around our service area in Minnesota, with the possibility of needs across the Midwest or the continental United States at times.\nResponsibilities\nManage assigned electrical projects from initial opportunity and pre-construction through final closeout, with accountability for safety, scope, schedule, budget, customer expectations, and financial results.\nPartner with Business Development and customers to qualify opportunities, understand project drivers, define technical needs, and establish practical pursuit strategies.\nLead and participate in customer discovery meetings, site walks, field investigations, and constructability reviews to develop clear scopes of work and identify risks, assumptions, exclusions, and schedule constraints.\nSupport pre-construction design by coordinating with customers, engineers, vendors, and field leadership to develop conceptual layouts, design criteria, equipment selections, installation approaches, and value-engineering options.\nCreate complete, competitive electrical estimates using drawings, specifications, site conditions, historical data, and defined customer requirements.\nPerform and validate quantity takeoffs, labor calculations, material and equipment pricing, subcontractor scope, vendor quotations, indirect costs, contingencies, escalation, and project-specific risk allowances.\nDevelop proposal packages, clarifications, alternates, allowances, qualifications, and pricing narratives that clearly communicate KE’s scope, value, and commercial position.\nProvide estimating support across the Solutions Team by reviewing scopes, takeoffs, labor plans, vendor pricing, proposal strategy, and estimate completeness; assist with bid reviews and turnover preparation.\nReview estimates, proposals, contracts, purchase orders, drawings, specifications, and customer requirements before startup; lead internal handoff and kickoff activities to align estimating assumptions with project execution.\nDevelop and maintain project schedules, manpower plans, material needs, shutdown requirements, work sequencing, procurement plans, and key milestones.\nMonitor labor productivity, material, equipment, subcontractors, purchase commitments, billing, cost to complete, and forecasted margin; address concerns early.\nIdentify scope changes, develop and validate change-order pricing, submit and track change orders, and communicate approved changes to the field and project team.\nServe as a primary KE contact and communicate project status, schedule, risks, required decisions, and changes clearly and professionally while developing long-term customer relationships and identifying follow-on opportunities.\nConduct regular site visits, maintain strong working relationships with field leadership, and remove roadblocks affecting safe and efficient execution.\nCoordinate vendors, subcontractors, procurement, long-lead materials, equipment, and critical delivery dates.\nMaintain complete project documentation, including RFIs, submittals, schedules, correspondence, photographs, cost information, and as-built requirements.\nLead punch-list completion, project closeout, final financial review, estimate-versus-actual analysis, and lessons-learned activities; apply findings to improve future estimates and execution plans.\nSupport safe project planning and partner with field leadership and KE Safety to address project-specific risks.\nSupport Project Coordinators and developing team members by sharing estimating, pre-construction, project-controls, and customer-management practices.\nParticipate in KE Project Manager meetings and operating cadences for pipeline review, estimating, forecasting, scheduling, reporting, risk management, change management, and project controls.\n What You'll Bring\n*This position is based in Minnesota and requires up to 20% travel to customers and project sites. This includes potential travel in the Midwest as well as across the United States.\nThe requirements listed in job descriptions are guidelines, not fixed rules. You do not have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If you feel you are an excellent candidate, we encourage you to apply!\nPrevious electrical construction project-management experience strongly preferred; industrial electrical or Field Services experience is a plus.\nAssociate or bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Electrical Technology, Engineering Technology, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.\nWorking knowledge of electrical construction methods, materials, equipment, project sequencing, and jobsite execution.\nDemonstrated understanding of project scope, schedule, budget, forecasting, job-cost management, and change orders.\nElectrical estimating, and or project management experience preferred.\nStrong customer communication, relationship-management, organization, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.\nAbility to manage multiple projects and competing priorities while working effectively with field and office teams.\nExperience with Procore, Microsoft Project, Dynamics, estimating platforms, or similar systems preferred.\nProficiency with Microsoft 365 and strong written and verbal communication skills.\nValid driver's license and ability to travel to customer and project locations.\nAbility to support occasional shutdown, evening, or weekend activities when project needs require.\n Pay Range\nWe believe in paying for the value you bring to the team, and we aim to be competitive in every market we hire in.\nTotal Rewards Statement\nAs a full-time employee at KE, you'll have access to a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and future.\n100% employer-paid health and dental coverage for employees\nHSA contributions to support your medical expenses\nCompany-paid life insurance and disability coverage\n401(k) with competitive company match\nPaid weekly with competitive wages\nPTO, six paid holidays, and education reimbursement\nExclusive employee discounts through Working Advantage\nWe believe your work should be rewarded with more than just a paycheck. At KE, we invest in your total wellbeing.\nPhysical Requirements\nThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be provided for individuals with disabilities.\nTypical requirements may include:\nAbility to sit, stand, kneel, stoop, walk, and work on your feet for long periods of time\nAbility to work in outdoor conditions, including extreme hot and cold temperatures\nAbility to dig, backfill, and manually move materials\nAbility to lift and carry up to 80 pounds\nAccessibility: If you need accommodations as part of the employment process, please contact KE Human Resources at .\nEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO)\nKnobelsdorff (KE) is an EEO to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, or local law.\nApplicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws:\nEEO is the Law (English /Spanish)\nKE participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States. 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