Cost Estimating Professional

Trinity Structural Towers; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Trinity Rail Maintenance Services, Inc. in Fort Worth, TX is seeking a Cost Estimating Professional to prepare accurate cost estimates and customer quotes in line with AAR regulations and customer requirements.

Join a team focused on delivering high-quality railcar maintenance services and collaborating across manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, and sales to ensure precise estimating and efficient project execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of two years of relevant experience in rail cost estimating, manufacturing estimating, railcar repair, or related field.
• Working knowledge of AAR codes, standards, and regulations applicable to railcar repair and billing.
• Experience interpreting customer procedures, specifications, contracts, and repair requirements.
• Ability to read blueprints, engineering drawings, bills of materials, or engineering models.

Responsibilities

• Review in-bound inspection reports, validate findings, and identify missing information requiring follow-up.
• Prepare accurate cost estimates and customer quotes based on applicable criteria and requirements.
• Analyze estimating issues and evaluate solutions using established procedures.
• Interpret drawings, BOMs, damage assessments, and shop instructions to establish estimate bases.
• Source repair parts and materials, including pricing and availability review.
• Develop comprehensive work orders translating requirements into shop instructions.
• Coordinate with manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, sales, and quality to clarify scope and pricing.
• Maintain records and repair documentation including invoices and repair cards.
• Support estimate-to-billing accuracy by reviewing documentation against approved scope.
• Build knowledge of plant processes and identify processes for future ownership.
• Contribute to standard work and process improvements in cost estimating.
• Perform additional technician or estimating duties as required.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft 365

RailcarRx

Job description

Delivering Goods For The Good Of All™ - TrinityRail

While _TrinityRail_ has built one of the broadest and deepest railcar platforms in the world, it’s what’s inside our cars that counts. We are proud to manufacture, maintain, and manage the railcars that deliver the indispensable goods that keep our lives, and our economy, rolling. “Delivering Goods For The Good Of All” is why we proudly come to work each day, and this is why our company exists. This is our purpose._TrinityRail_ provides- Railcar Manufacturing: https://www.trinityrail.com/products/- Railcar Leasing Solutions: https://www.trinityrail.com/leasing/- Railcar Maintenance & Parts: https://www.trinityrail.com/maintenance/- Fleet Management Services: https://www.trinityrail.com/fleet-management/For more information, visit us at trinityrail.com.Learn more about Trinsight®: https://www.trinityrail.com/trinsight/Trinsight is _TrinityRail_ 's cloud-based platform purpose-built to bring your fleet into focus, allowing you to transform and streamline your supply chain with real-time tracking, analysis and management features that modern logistics demandsVideo tranFor decades, _TrinityRail_ has been delivering the goods that keep North America moving. A humble promise to transport the everyday things that make everybody's lives better. It's our commitment to being stewards of the supply chain connecting companies with customers. People with products and Delivering Goods for the Good of All. While we've built one of the broadest and deepest railcar platforms in the world, to us it's what's on the inside that counts. And the purpose these products serve for you like grain the secret ingredient for making memories, or gravel that paves the way for a getaway, fuel to power the road trip of a lifetime, cars that transport us to exciting new places, and essential chemicals that purify our water food and promote a healthy way of life. Indispensable goods that truly move us and keep our lives, and our economy rolling. TrinityRail is proud to

TrinityRail Maintenance Services, Inc. is searching for a talented team player to fill the open position of Cost Estimating Professional in our Fort Worth, TX facility. We provide a complete array of railcar maintenance services. We welcome your business leadership and people leadership and drive to excellence.

The Cost Estimating Professional is responsible for preparing accurate cost estimates and customer quotes in compliance with AAR regulations and customer requirements. This individual applies working knowledge of cost estimating practices to analyze inspection findings, source materials, develop comprehensive work orders, resolve a range of straightforward estimating issues, and maintain complete repair documentation while collaborating across the organization. The role works with a moderate level of guidance and continues building knowledge of organizational processes and customers.

What You’ll Do:

• Review in-bound inspection reports, validate findings, and identify missing or inconsistent information requiring follow-up
• Prepare accurate cost estimates and customer quotes based on applicable customer criteria, procedures, contracts, and AAR requirements
• Analyze a range of straightforward estimating issues, evaluate available solutions using established procedures, and elevate exceptions when appropriate
• Interpret drawings, blueprints, bills of materials, damage assessments, shop instructions, and customer specifications to establish the basis for estimates
• Source repair parts and materials, including research, pricing, availability review, and requisition support
• Develop comprehensive work orders that translate customer requirements and approved repair scope into clear shop instructions
• Coordinate closely with manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, sales, customer service, quality, and other stakeholders to clarify scope, material, schedule, and pricing requirements
• Maintain accurate records and repair documentation, including invoices, AAR billing repair cards, testing documentation, estimate revisions, and supporting information
• Support estimate-to-billing accuracy by reviewing documentation for alignment with approved scope and customer requirements
• Build knowledge of plant processes and identify a production or estimating process for future increased ownership
• Contribute to standard work, documentation quality, and continuous improvement within the cost estimating process
• Perform additional technician or estimating duties as required

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Minimum of two years of relevant experience in rail cost estimating, manufacturing estimating, railcar repair, or a related field
• Working knowledge of AAR codes, standards, and regulations applicable to railcar repair and billing
• Experience interpreting customer procedures, specifications, contracts, and repair requirements
• Experience reading blueprints, engineering drawings, bills of materials, or engineering models
• Ability to analyze information, apply standard procedures, and resolve a range of straightforward estimating problems
• Ability to interface and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and with external partners
• Ability to work across functions and manage multiple estimates, priorities, and documentation requirements with attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 (M365); experience with RailcarRx or other estimating or maintenance systems preferred

EOE

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