Capital Projects Cost Manager: Factory Expansion Lead

Telemetry Today LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life ins.

401k

Relocation support may be provided

Flexible vacation policy

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is seeking a Capital Projects Cost Manager to support finance evolution, planning, and procurement for manufacturing facilities and infrastructure. You will translate technical requirements into reliable cost estimates and actionable investment recommendations, collaborating with Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, and Facilities.

The role involves developing budgets from concept through design, refining estimates at 60–100% design, and guiding bids.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of construction estimating or preconstruction experience.
• Experience estimating projects from early concept through final construction documents.
• Comfortable reading drawings, specs, equipment requirements and construction schedules.
• Advanced Excel skills for cost models, cash-flow forecasts and scenario analyses.
• Solid grasp of capital budgeting, investment evaluation and basic accounting, enough to align budgets with Finance.
• Experience leveling bids and evaluating contractor proposals.
• Clear communicator who can turn complex cost data into a recommendation, and works independently across technical and finance teams while juggling multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Feasibility and Early Estimates: define early project scope, layouts and infrastructure needs.
• Build conceptual estimates and full project budgets from incomplete designs, covering design, construction, permitting, commissioning and contingency.
• Document assumptions, exclusions, risks and confidence levels.
• Compare facility options and delivery approaches to inform capital decisions.
• Prepare estimates across civil, structural, architectural, MEP and industrial utility work.
• Refine budgets from feasibility through 60–100% design, explaining what changed and why.
• Flag scope gaps, constructability issues and value engineering opportunities.
• Track estimates against bid results and final project costs to build benchmarks.
• Capital Planning and Financial Analysis: build cost models tying scope, schedule and procurement to capital needs, cash flow and spending forecasts.
• Partner with FP&A and Accounting on returns, payback, scenario analysis and capex vs. opex treatment.
• Support capital approval requests and explain variances between approved budgets, current estimates and forecasts.
• Bidding and Leadership Reporting: prepare bid packages, level contractor and supplier proposals against independent estimates, and support award recommendations.
• Make sure awarded scopes and costs flow into project budgets and forecasts.
• Turn technical cost information into executive-ready recommendations and flag risks early.
• Build estimating templates, standards and tools as the function scales.

Skills

Estimating

Forecasting

Cross-functional

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

NetSuite

SAP

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Hadrian is seeking a Capital Projects Cost Manager to support finance evolution, planning, and procurement for manufacturing facilities and infrastructure. You will translate technical requirements into reliable cost estimates and actionable investment recommendations, collaborating with Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, and Facilities.

The role involves developing budgets from concept through design, refining estimates at 60–100% design, and guiding bids.