Estimator

Overview

Join a Team Where Engineering Excellence Drives Opportunity

 

At Affiliated Engineers, Inc. (AEI), we bring together expertise and innovation to solve the most complex challenges. Since 1978, we’ve supported mission-driven organizations in designing systems and environments that advance society and improve lives. Today, with more than 900 professionals across 22 offices, we help shape the future of healthcare, science and technology, energy, education, and other vital sectors.

 

From elevating patient care in Mayo Clinic’s world-class hospitals to enabling discovery in high-containment laboratories for U.S. agencies and driving environmental progress with Microsoft’s renowned Thermal Energy Center, our work enriches the human experience, safeguards the environment, and pushes the boundaries of possibility.

 

AEI consistently earns national recognition from leading industry publications, including Building Design+Construction, Engineering News-Record, and Consulting-Specifying Engineer, with distinctions such as being named the #1 Laboratory Engineering Firm in the nation and receiving multiple Best of the Best Project awards, underscoring the lasting legacy of our work.

 

At AEI, you’ll join a collaborative community where your expertise fuels innovation, your ideas drive progress, and your work helps shape a brighter future.

 

As an Estimator in our Madison office, you will help us empower our clients to achieve energy-efficient building solutions, save global environments, and create a better, greener future for all.

 

Why We Need You:

In this role, you will have overall responsibility for the creation of cost estimates for facility designs. Within this role, you will prepare conceptual estimates from scope documents and benchmarking data, will interpret construction documents, and translate graphic and written information into understandable cost estimate figures and language.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience and knowledge of construction materials, practices, methodologies and components for construction of engineered building systems with an emphasis on MEP systems.
• Strong working knowledge of RS Means and On Center or other estimating tools.
• Ability to do conceptual estimating.
• Mechanical estimating experience. 
• Fundamental knowledge of building construction systems and methods. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Additional Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to work in a team environment across all levels of the organization.
• Associates degree in related field or equivalent
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Quick technical comprehension and motivation focused on client outcomes.
• Ability to juggle multiple demands
• Excellent organizational skills and flexibility to adjust to shifting priorities and deadlines that may occur on a daily

When you work here, you can expect:

• A flexible, collaborative environment where your well-being matters—because your best work happens when you’re supported.
• Real opportunities to grow—through mentorship, professional development programs, and exposure to high-impact projects across disciplines.
• To collaborate with inspiring teammates who challenge the status quo, foster innovation, and pave the way for future leaders.
• A benefits package that offers health, dental, vision, and retirement, a performance-based year-end bonus, and thoughtful perks tailored to your needs—whether that's a flexible work environment, wellness resources, or community-focused initiatives, we’ll continue to invest in.

If this dynamic environment and the chance to contribute to transformative projects resonate with your ambitions, we would love to connect with you. Join us and make an impact!

 

Apply online at https://aeieng.com/about/careers/

 

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AEI is proud to be an EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled.