Senior Cost Estimator

Job Description Summary

Join a team where your expertise directly influences winning strategies, customer trust, and the future of GE Aerospace’s Defense Engines and Services business.

As a Senior Product Cost Estimator, you will play a highly visible role in shaping competitive, compliant, and high-quality cost estimates for U.S. government customers. In this role, you won’t just build estimates—you’ll help drive strategic decisions, improve forecasting confidence, influence cross-functional execution, and strengthen how we deliver for our customers.

This is an opportunity for an experienced professional to expand their impact across finance, engineering, supply chain, and program management
, while building deep expertise in defense programs, government proposal activity, and cost analytics. You’ll work on meaningful, complex challenges with direct exposure to internal leaders and external customers, including the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Army, DCMA, and DCAA
.

If you are motivated by solving tough business problems, influencing decisions, improving processes, and seeing your work translate into customer outcomes, this role offers both challenge and career growth.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to move beyond transactional estimating work and become a trusted business partner in a complex defense environment. You’ll have the chance to combine financial rigor, customer focus, process improvement, and strategic thinking in a role where your contributions are visible and valued.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Influence high-impact business decisions across GE Aerospace Defense Engines and Services programs
• Gain broad cross-functional exposure by partnering with engineering, supply chain, finance, and program management
• Build deeper expertise in government contracting and defense proposals
  , including the full RFP lifecycle
• Strengthen executive-level business acumen through risk identification, deal analysis, and cost-based decision support
• Lead process improvement and simplification efforts using lean principles
• Develop customer-facing experience with major U.S. defense stakeholders and audit agencies
• Grow your visibility as a strategic contributor in a role that combines analytics, collaboration, and ownership

• Partner with engineering, supply chain, finance, and program management teams to develop and support cost estimates using long-term business valuation projections and other relevant inputs
• Perform analytical reviews of historical cost data from multiple internal systems to develop robust cost estimates
• Analyze business data and prepare comprehensive cost analysis reports that support proposal strategy and decision-making
• Identify, assess, and clearly communicate deal risks and opportunities to deal factory management
• Support cost estimating audits with internal and external audit teams, including ownership of follow-up actions and findings as appropriate
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement through lean principles and practical process enhancements
• Identify and lead cost estimating process improvements
  , simplification efforts, and adoption of best practices
• Support the full RFP lifecycle
  , including proposal submission, fact‑finding, and negotiations with internal and external customers
• Evaluate cost bases to improve forecast accuracy and help accelerate proposal cycles
• Build expertise in the Defense Engines and Systems business

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in risk management, accounting, finance, sourcing, government contracting, or a related field

We’re especially interested in candidates who bring:

• Experience working with DCMA, DCAA, or similar government agencies
• Advanced Excel skills
  , including the ability to build and evaluate complex spreadsheets and analyze large, multi‑source datasets
• Strong ability to understand customer needs and explain complex estimating methodologies clearly to internal and external stakeholders
• Proven critical thinking and…