Senior Low-Voltage Project Manager / Estimator - BAS & Security Leader

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Low-Voltage Project Manager / Estimator

Building Automation & Commercial Security

TACS — Texas Automation and Control Solutions

Location: Dallas–Fort Worth; regular local jobsite visits and meetings
Employment: Full-time - 1099
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Pay: $2000 - $3000 based on experience. Paid weekly on Fridays.

About the Role

TACS is a veteran-owned and minority-owned commercial contractor working with Siemens and other partners on HVAC controls/building automation (BAS), structured cabling, access control, and security camera wiring.

We’re looking for an experienced project manager and estimator to lead multiple projects from site walk and bid through installation, commissioning support, and final client acceptance.

What You’ll Do

• Estimate and bid: Review plans, specifications, controls sequences, and addenda. Complete site walks and takeoffs; estimate labor hours and burden, materials, equipment, subcontractors, overhead, and margin. Confirm vendor quotes, lead times, scope gaps, assumptions, and exclusions. Prepare JobTread proposals, budgets, and change-order pricing.
• Lead project delivery: Build execution plans and coordinate crews, subcontractors, schedules, materials, site access, and other trades. Represent TACS in client and jobsite meetings. Manage RFIs, submittals, drawing revisions, inspections, action items, and schedule changes.
• Control costs and communicate: Track budgets, labor, committed costs, and costs to complete. Forecast margins, address overruns early, obtain change approvals, and coordinate procurement and billing milestones. Keep JobTread current and provide clear updates on schedule, budget, staffing, risks, and next steps.
• Finish projects: Coordinate installation quality, labeling, point-to-point checks, testing, and commissioning support with qualified teams while meeting site safety requirements. Complete punch lists, as-builts, test records, and closeout documents to secure client acceptance.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of relevant commercial construction or building-systems experience, including 3+ years managing projects, budgets, and field teams.
• Proven estimating, bidding, takeoff, labor-planning, proposal, change-order, and cost-control experience.
• Ability to read commercial plans, MEP drawings, electrical schematics, controls diagrams, and specifications.
• Practical HVAC controls/BAS and low-voltage experience, including Siemens, Johnson Controls, or comparable commercial controls projects.
• Hands-on field leadership or commissioning experience with AHUs, VAVs, VFDs, sensors, actuators, control panels, and wiring.
• Experience with commercial access control, security cameras, structured cabling, and low-voltage pathways.
• JobTread or comparable construction software experience; willingness to use JobTread is required. Familiarity with Bluebeam, Procore, Microsoft Project, or Excel.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and follow-through across multiple projects, plus reliable travel throughout DFW.

OSHA 30, PMP, or relevant trade/controls credentials are a plus.