Manager Project Estimating

NextEra Energy Inc

Juno Beach, FL

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Accounting, Business Analysis, Capital Project, Communication Skills, Construction Engineering, Construction Estimates, Continuous Improvement, Cost Analysis, Cost Estimates, Customer Support/Service, Design Evaluation, Detail Oriented, Due Diligence, Economic Growth, Electricity, Energy Management, Engineering Management, Establish Priorities, Finance, Leadership, Needs Assessment, Organizational Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Procedure Development, Process Improvement, Project Development, Project Estimates, Project Evaluation, Project Planning, Project Schedule, Project/Program Management, Recruiting/Staffing Agency, Risk Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Team Player, Value Engineering, Wholesale Industry
LOCATION
Juno Beach, FL
POSTED
9 days ago

Requisition ID: 95257

NextEra Energy Resources is one of America's largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!

Position Specific Description

We are seeking a high-impact Manager of Project Estimating to lead and elevate our estimating function across a diverse portfolio of energy and infrastructure projects. This role owns the development, review, and execution of capital cost estimates-from early-stage concept through detailed design-ensuring alignment with business objectives and market conditions. You will partner closely with engineering, project development, and leadership teams to shape project strategy, evaluate design alternatives, and drive value through data-driven decision-making and value engineering. As the accountable owner of estimate quality, you will continuously improve tools, processes, and assumptions to increase accuracy, speed, and insight.

We are builders, competitors, and learners-people who take pride in doing hard things well. We are looking for you to join us. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and relentlessly effective, with the ability to manage complexity and deliver in a fast-paced environment. You bring strong technical skills, a curiosity to learn and adapt quickly, and the drive to continuously improve yourself and those around you. You're a team-first leader who communicates clearly, builds trust, and elevates others-balancing creativity with discipline and precision. You thrive on accountability, enjoy solving problems that don't have clear answers, and have the competitive edge to push for better outcomes every time. If you're motivated by high standards, meaningful impact, and the opportunity to build something that truly matters, you'll fit right in.

Job Overview

This position oversees and performs estimating functions on major projects in the power sector, including wind, transmission, gas pipelines, solar, fossil, energy storage and distributed generation. Employees in this role develop, interpret, and execute policy objectives and standards applicable to estimating activities. Successful candidates work with other project team members to assess project risk and cost exposure, during the development and execution phases.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Works collaboratively with early stage project managers, to determine project priorities and work plans required to meet corporate objectives with limited estimating resources
  • Manages Engineering and Construction department estimating resources, to provide effective estimating support company-wide
  • Performs project due diligence, including assessment of costs for design options and project optimization
  • Prepares capital cost estimates
  • Obtains commitments from early stage project managers, as necessary, to support project estimating schedules
  • Determines necessary procedure or process requirements for estimating group, and coordinates development and implementation of same
  • Stays current with technology and industry evolution, in order to assure that project capital estimates anticipate the correct market conditions
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree
  • Experience:8+ years
  • Supervisor/Management Experience:2+ years

Preferred Qualifications

  • None

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Finance, Accounting & Business Analytics

Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC

Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.

NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.

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About the Company

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NextEra Energy Inc

NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a leading clean energy company with consolidated revenues of approximately $17.5 billion and approximately 14,300 employees in 27 states and Canada as of year-end 2015, as well as approximately 45,000 megawatts of generating capacity, which includes megawatts associated with noncontrolling interests related to NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) as of April 2016. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Fla., NextEra Energy’s principal subsidiaries are Florida Power & Light Company, which serves more than 4.8 million customer accounts in Florida and is one of the largest rate-regulated electric utilities in the United States, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Through its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from eight commercial nuclear power units in Florida, New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin. A Fortune 200 company and included in the S&P 100 index, NextEra Energy has been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity, and has been ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in Fortune’s 2016 list of “World's Most Admired Companies.”

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Energy and Utilities
FOUNDED
1925
WEBSITE
http://www.nexteraenergy.com/