Estimator, Modular R&D

Responsibilities

• Build and own the cost model for the modular data center product, covering every assembly across structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls scopes.
• Produce estimates at every design release so the program always knows what the product costs before it commits to build.
• Price design alternatives in days, giving engineers cost facts on trade-offs like cooling configuration, electrical distribution, and skid versus site-built scope.
• Interrogate vendor quotes line by line with supply chain, and build should-cost models for the equipment categories that dominate unit cost.
• Reconcile estimates against actuals after each build and fold the variance back into the model, so the next estimate is tighter than the last.

Requirements

• Personally estimated mechanical, electrical, or modular construction scopes: takeoffs, unit pricing, vendor pricing, and a final number you stood behind when the project was won or lost.
• Built cost models other people could run without you in the room, and they held up.
• Reconciled estimate versus actual and changed your assumptions when the data said you were wrong.
• Priced options for engineers in the middle of a design decision, delivering a usable number in hours when the decision couldn't wait.
• Know where estimates fail (scope gaps, labor productivity, escalation, freight) and you've caught those failures before they priced a bid.
• Worked directly with design engineers early in product development, where drawings are incomplete and the estimate still has to be right about what matters.

Nice-to-Haves

• Data center or mission-critical estimating.
• Modular or offsite manufacturing cost experience.
• NECA or MCAA labor units.
• Estimating platforms beyond spreadsheets.
• Early-stage R&D or product cost work.