Lead Labor Cost Estimating - Senior Manager (Onsite)

Collins Aerospace; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vacation time

401(k) plan

Job summary

Collins Aerospace is hiring for a Senior Manager, Labor Cost Estimating in Mission Systems. This onsite role will lead a multi-site team delivering accurate labor estimates for proposals and programs.

You will drive standardization, collaborate with Pricing and Operations, and ensure compliant estimates across FAR/DFARS. The position supports on-site work at Cedar Rapids, IA or Melbourne, FL.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
• Experience leading teams, projects, or cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience with Microsoft Office products - Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and provide day-to-day guidance to a multi-geographical team of labor cost estimating analysts.
• Manage team workload, proposal assignments, priorities, and resources to support business needs and proposal deadlines across multiple sites and portfolios.
• Build team capability through coaching, cross-training, knowledge sharing, and employee development while reducing single-point dependencies.
• Champion change management and lead the continued transformation and centralization of labor cost estimating processes across Mission Systems.
• Establish and maintain standardized estimating processes, tools, templates, roles, responsibilities, and work instructions that improve consistency, efficiency, and estimate quality.
• Partner with Pricing Managers and other functional leaders to promote early Cost Estimating involvement, clear proposal roles, effective kickoffs, and continuous communication throughout the proposal lifecycle.
• Influence proposal teams to ensure estimating inputs, assumptions, bases of estimate, and supporting documentation are current, accurate, complete, and received with sufficient time to support a quality proposal.
• Develop and maintain metrics that provide visibility into workload, cycle time, estimate quality, rework, and process performance; use those metrics to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.
• Promote the effective use and continued development of estimating systems, tools, and automation, including SAP, BMW, PARS, ProPricer, Microsoft Excel, and other digital solutions.
• Support alignment across sites while ensuring labor estimates comply with the Collins Aerospace Estimating Business System and applicable organizational requirements.
• Maintain strong working relationships with site leadership, program teams, pricing teams, and functional stakeholders to resolve issues and support successful proposal execution.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and procedures, the Cost Estimating Manual, and applicable FAR and DFARS requirements.
• Support government and customer fact-finding, negotiations, audits, and requests for information, including interactions with DCMA, DCAA, and other external customers.
• Foster a team culture built on trust, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional development.
• Travel and work onsite at supported locations as business needs require.
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Skills

Team leadership

Microsoft Office

Education

University Degree

Tools

SAP

BMW

PARS

ProPricer

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Collins Aerospace is hiring for a Senior Manager, Labor Cost Estimating in Mission Systems. This onsite role will lead a multi-site team delivering accurate labor estimates for proposals and programs.

You will drive standardization, collaborate with Pricing and Operations, and ensure compliant estimates across FAR/DFARS. The position supports on-site work at Cedar Rapids, IA or Melbourne, FL.