Senior Estimating & Pricing Specialist

Job Description

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Phantom Works is Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s (BDS) sophisticated research and development organization that is responsible for engaging customers through groundbreaking visual modeling and simulation; innovating cross-cutting concepts and technologies; prototyping solutions to extend current products and win new programs; and developing new businesses and entering new markets.

Phantom Works Estimating is seeking a Senior Estimating & Pricing Specialist to join our team in Berkeley, MO. Our team is open to a broad range of experience levels including Level 4 and Level 5 Specialists to find the best fit for the position. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining parametric cost models and providing rapid, reliable cost estimates across projects and programs. The ideal candidate will combine strong analytical skills, industry knowledge, and experience with statistical and parametric techniques to support early-phase budgeting, proposal development, and decision-making.

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop, validate, and maintain parametric cost models and estimating tools to support concept and preliminary design phases

• Produce timely, defensible high-level cost estimates using parametric, analogous, and statistical methods

• Analyze historical cost and performance data to derive cost drivers and learning curves

• Collaborate with engineering, program management, supply chain, and finance to collect data inputs, verify assumptions, and refine models

• Perform sensitivity, risk, and uncertainty analyses to quantify cost drivers and present ranges and confidence intervals

• Lead/oversee development of complex estimates and prices from complex technical requirements through the design, build and support stages of the program

• Lead/oversee business proposals, evaluates and makes recommendations based on complex requests for proposal and substantiates estimates and pricing

• Lead/oversee and performs complex analyses and provides recommendations in support of pricing and estimating (risk, financial, competitive, etc.)

• Determine database requirements and identify new data sources

• Lead/oversee the development/application/maintenance of unique and non-unique rates and factors for estimating

• Train and mentor team members on creating and using data-driven estimates

• Support compliance activities

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's Degree or higher

• 5+ years of experience in a business-related role

• 3+ years of experience with the Microsoft Excel application using: formulas, VLookups, pivot tables, charts, etc

• Experience performing parametric estimates and data analysis

• Experience performing substantiated quick-turn (1-2 weeks) Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates and tests of reasonableness

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 10+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Active US Security Clearance

• Experience with and knowledge of United States Government Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)

• Experience using data analysis to drive decision making

• Experience with critical thinking, problem solving, negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills

• Experience working in multifaceted and diverse teams across multiple functions

• Experience leading projects with little direct supervision and drive project to completion

• Experience working under tight deadlines with competing priorities

• Experience presenting to senior leadership

• Experience performing opportunity and risk analysis (discrete and statistical/Monte Carlo)

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.  Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. 

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work. 

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. 

Summary pay range Level 4: $106,250 - $143,750

Summary pay range Level 5: $134,300 - $181,700

Applications for this position will be accepted until Oct. 17, 2025

Export Control Requirements: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Export Control Details: US based job, US Person required

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Required

Relocation

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Security Clearance

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

This position is for 1st shift

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Experience Level
Individual Contributor
Contingent Upon Program Award
No, this position is not contingent upon program award

Schedule
Full time

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.