Lead Project Estimator

Lead Project Estimator

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!

We are seeking a high-impact Lead Project Estimator to play a critical role in driving estimating excellence across a diverse portfolio of energy and infrastructure projects. In this role, you will lead the development and execution of capital cost estimatesfrom early-stage concept through detailed designensuring accuracy, insight, and alignment with business objectives and market conditions. You will work closely with engineering, project development, and leadership teams to evaluate design alternatives, challenge assumptions, and drive better outcomes through data-driven analysis and value engineering. As a key contributor to estimate quality, you will help advance our tools, processes, and methodologies to improve speed, precision, and decision-making at scale.

We are builders, competitors, and learnerspeople who take pride in doing hard things welland 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, intellectual curiosity, and the drive to continuously improve yourself and those around you. You are a collaborative team player and emerging leader who communicates clearly, builds trust, and influences outcomesbalancing creativity with discipline and precision. You thrive on accountability, enjoy solving problems without clear answers, and bring a competitive edge that pushes for better results every time. If you are motivated by high standards, meaningful impact, and the opportunity to grow into a leadership role while doing work that truly matters, you will fit right in.

This position develops, quantifies, costs, and provides a complete capital expenditure (CapEx) model for evaluating projects. Employees in this role provide technical guidance, estimating knowledge, market pricing, and staffing considerations during the estimating process.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Prepares capital cost estimates
• Reviews designs and specifications for cost effectiveness and suggests alternatives, when appropriate
• Coordinates with other departments, ensuring understanding of project objectives and efficient utilization of resources
• Reviews layouts, designs and specifications for cost effectiveness and suggests alternatives, when appropriate
• Remains current with technology and industry evolution, assuring that capital estimates anticipate the correct market conditions
• Establishes, builds and implements metrics for cost and construction estimate checks
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience: 6+ years

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