ON.energy is building the power infrastructure that makes the AI era possible. The Project Estimating and Costing Manager supports new project development sales by owning cost estimates and costing inputs during the sales and pre-award phase, focusing on building reliable cost estimates and project cash models.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a standardized tool for cost estimates and pricing aligned with project standard WBS structure and ERP system
- Build order intake and opportunity dashboards
- Support continuous improvement on costing processes
- Prepare and maintain cost estimates for new project opportunities, make changes such as design and scope evolve and document assumptions and exclusions
- Prepare project cash models using customer and supplier payments terms
- Coordinate with sales and sales engineering to translate technical scope into cost impacts
- Support proposal development by providing multiple scenarios and scenario comparisons
- Interface with Procurement to validate supplier pricing and delivery schedules, including logistics and supply constraints in the estimates
- Highlight cost related risks as supplier input evolve
- Support continuous improvement on data quality
- Build models that calculate total product costs, pricing, and portfolio management and reporting
- Provide guidance on project pricing throughout the negotiation process
- Lead strategic meetings with department executives as keystone on all costing and pricing
- Establish relationships with all strategic departments to understand new product designs and build total cost profile
Requirements:
- Experience in project estimating and cost management
- Ability to develop standardized tools for cost estimates and pricing
- Experience with project cash models and understanding of customer and supplier payment terms
- Strong coordination skills with sales, sales engineering, and procurement
- Ability to prepare and maintain cost estimates for new project opportunities
- Experience in highlighting cost-related risks
- Strong analytical skills to build models that calculate total product costs and pricing
- Experience in providing guidance on project pricing throughout the negotiation process
- Ability to lead strategic meetings with department executives
- Strong relationship-building skills with strategic departments
- Experience with ERP systems
- Familiarity with logistics and supply constraints in cost estimates
- Experience in continuous improvement processes related to costing