Our client develops commercial aerospace flight simulators.
They are looking for a someone will be responsible for estimating the amount of technical labour effort, the labour skillset and materials required to execute each project. The role will work closely with the Solution Architect to understand the technical solution defined for complex projects.
This position could be suitable for an Estimator / Cost Planner / Cost Engineer/ Planning Engineer / Project Engineer with strong estimating skills and ability in a high value, high technology project context.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Estimating the technical labour effort (Systems, Software and Hardware Engineering) required to plan and execute each aftermarket project.
- Capture the estimate in a bid book and support the translation into Pro-Pricer, breaking down into labour estimates by skillset or resource type.
- Estimate the cost of material required for each project use catalogue.
- Capture key assumptions that underpin the estimates.
- Support the development of the Statement Of Work by clarifying and detailing what is included in the cost base.
- Analyse project actuals to help refine estimates for standard or common updates by working with aftermarket finance team.
- Support the development and maintenance of the aftermarket bid library & catalogue.
- Support the development of schedule or high-level timeline for the project, breaking out time from contract award to the start of the on-site phase, the duration of the on-site phase and the amount of downtime required during the on-site phase in conjunction with the Engineering Functional Managers and Engineering Work Package Owners in relation to costs
- Analyzing bottom up-costs for bids
This position is based in Crawley, West Sussex and will require a minimum of 4 days per week onsite.
