Experienced Parametric Estimating Specialist

Job Description

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Phantom Works is Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s (BDS) sophisticated research and development organization that is responsible for engaging customers through groundbreaking visual modeling and simulation; innovating cross-cutting concepts and technologies; prototyping solutions to extend current products and win new programs; and developing new businesses and entering new markets.

Phantom Works Estimating is seeking an Experienced
Parametric Estimating Specialist to join our team in Berkeley, MO. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining parametric cost models and providing rapid, reliable cost estimates across projects and programs. The ideal candidate will combine strong analytical skills, industry knowledge, and experience with statistical and parametric techniques to support early-phase budgeting, proposal development, and decision-making.

• Develop, validate, and maintain parametric cost models and estimating tools to support concept and preliminary design phases
• Produce timely, defensible high-level cost estimates using parametric, analogous, and statistical methods
• Analyze historical cost and performance data to derive cost drivers and learning curves
• Collaborate with engineering, program management, supply chain, and finance to collect data inputs, verify assumptions, and refine models
• Perform sensitivity, risk, and uncertainty analyses to quantify cost drivers and present ranges and confidence intervals
• Lead/oversee development of complex estimates and prices from complex technical requirements through the design, build and support stages of the program
• Lead/oversee business proposals, evaluates and makes recommendations based on complex requests for proposal and substantiates estimates and pricing
• Lead/oversee and performs complex analyses and provides recommendations in support of pricing and estimating (risk, financial, competitive, etc.)
• Determine database requirements and identify new data sources
• Lead/oversee the development/application/maintenance of unique and non-unique rates and factors for estimating
• Train and mentor team members on creating and using data-driven estimates
• Support compliance activities

• Bachelor's degree or higher
• 3+ years of experience in a business-related role
• 3+ years of experience with the Microsoft Excel application using: formulas, VLookups, pivot tables, charts, etc
• Experience performing parametric estimates and data analysis
• Experience performing substantiated quick-turn (1-2 weeks) Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates and tests of reasonableness

• Active US Security Clearance
• Experience with and knowledge of United States Government Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
• Experience performing opportunity and risk analysis (discrete and statistical/Monte Carlo)
• Experience presenting to senior leadership
• Experience using data analysis to drive decision making
• Experience leading projects with little direct supervision and drive project to completion
• Experience working under tight deadlines with competing priorities

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

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