Senior Manager, Labor Cost Estimating — Mission Systems

Collins Aerospace; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 132,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Three weeks of vacation

401(k) plan with matching funds

Tuition reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Other benefits

Job summary

Collins Aerospace in the United States is seeking a Senior Manager, Labor Cost Estimating to lead the centralized Mission Systems Labor Cost Estimating team across Cedar Rapids, IA and Melbourne, FL. The role partners with Pricing, Operations and proposal stakeholders to deliver accurate, compliant labor estimates.

You will guide strategic and day-to-day activities, develop standardized processes, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring estimates comply with FAR/DFARS and the Estimating

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

Leadership

Team management

Cost estimating

Proposal development

Microsoft Excel

Education

University Degree

Advanced Degree

Tools

SAP

BMW

PARS

ProPricer

Excel

Job description

Collins Aerospace in the United States is seeking a Senior Manager, Labor Cost Estimating to lead the centralized Mission Systems Labor Cost Estimating team across Cedar Rapids, IA and Melbourne, FL. The role partners with Pricing, Operations and proposal stakeholders to deliver accurate, compliant labor estimates.

You will guide strategic and day-to-day activities, develop standardized processes, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring estimates comply with FAR/DFARS and the Estimating