The Role:The Capital Projects Cost Manager will support the finance evolution, planning, and procurement of manufacturing facilities, factory expansions, and infrastructure improvements. Reporting through Finance, this position will partner with Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, and Facilities to translate technical requirements into reliable cost estimates and actionable investment recommendations.
This role will work with internal engineers to develop preliminary project scopes and designs, establish feasibility budgets, and help evaluate project viability. As projects advance, the estimator will develop budgets for completing design and delivering construction, refine estimates through the 60-100% design stages, and support competitive bidding.
The successful candidate will combine strong construction estimating experience with the financial and analytical skills needed to assess capital requirements, forecast spending, evaluate alternatives, and communicate cost, schedule, and scope trade-offs to leadership.
What You'll DoFeasibility and Early Estimates - Work with engineers to define early project scope, layouts and infrastructure needs
- Build conceptual estimates and full project budgets from incomplete designs, covering design, construction, permitting, commissioning and contingency
- Document assumptions, exclusions, risks and confidence levels
- Compare facility options and delivery approaches to inform capital decisions
Detailed Estimating - Prepare estimates across civil, structural, architectural, MEP and industrial utility work, using takeoffs, historical costs and contractor and supplier pricing
- Refine budgets from feasibility through 60-100% design, explaining what changed and why
- Flag scope gaps, constructability issues and value engineering opportunities
- Track estimates against bid results and final project costs to build benchmarks.
Capital Planning and Financial Analysis- Build cost models that tie scope, schedule and procurement to capital needs, cash flow and spending forecasts
- Partner with FP&A and Accounting on returns, payback, scenario analysis and capex vs. opex treatment
- Support capital approval requests and explain variances between approved budgets, current estimates and forecastss.
Bidding and Leadership Reporting - Prepare bid packages, level contractor and supplier proposals against independent estimates, and support award recommendations
- Make sure awarded scopes and costs flow into project budgets and forecasts
- Turn technical cost information into clear recommendations and exec-ready materials that flag risks early
- Build estimating templates, standards and tools as the function scales
What We're Looking For- 10+ years of construction estimating or preconstruction experience, including industrial or technically complex facilities
- Experience estimating projects from early concept through final construction documents, including quantity takeoffs and pricing across trades
- Comfortable reading drawings, specs, equipment requirements and construction schedules
- Advanced Excel skills for building cost models, cash-flow forecasts and scenario analyses
- Solid grasp of capital budgeting, investment evaluation and basic accounting, enough to align budgets with Finance
- Experience leveling bids and evaluating contractor proposals
- Clear communicator who can turn complex cost data into a recommendation, and works independently across technical and finance teams while juggling multiple projects
What Will Set You Apart- Background in advanced manufacturing, aerospace and defense, or other capital-intensive industries
- Experience estimating large factory builds, expansions or renovations inside operating facilities, including industrial utilities, equipment foundations and installation
- Experience supporting feasibility studies and capital investment decision
- Familiarity with design-build and GMP (guaranteed maximum price) contracts
- Experience with NetSuite, SAP or similar ERP systems, and SQL, Power BI or Tableau for cost reporting, plus building estimating processes and cost databases at a fast-growing company
CompensationFor this role, the target salary range is $190,000 - $225,000(actual range may vary based on experience).
This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Benefits for Full-time Employees- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
401k - Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
