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Job Description SummaryJoin a team where your expertise directly influences winning strategies, customer trust, and the future of GE Aerospace's Defense Engines and Services business.
As a Senior Product Cost Estimator, you will play a highly visible role in shaping competitive, compliant, and high-quality cost estimates for U.S. government customers. In this role, you won't just build estimates-you'll help drive strategic decisions, improve forecasting confidence, influence cross-functional execution, and strengthen how we deliver for our customers.Job Description

This is an opportunity for an experienced professional to expand their impact acrossfinance, engineering, supply chain, and program management, while building deep expertise in defense programs, government proposal activity, and cost analytics. You'll work on meaningful, complex challenges with direct exposure to internal leaders and external customers, including theU.S. Air Force, Navy, Army, DCMA, and DCAA.

If you are motivated by solving tough business problems, influencing decisions, improving processes, and seeing your work translate into customer outcomes, this role offers both challenge and career growth.

Why This Role Stands Out

This role is ideal for someone who wants to move beyond transactional estimating work and become atrusted business partnerin a complex defense environment. You'll have the chance to combine financial rigor, customer focus, process improvement, and strategic thinking in a role where your contributions are visible and valued.

What You'll Gain

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Influence high-impact business decisionsacross GE Aerospace Defense Engines and Services programs
• Gain broad cross-functional exposureby partnering with engineering, supply chain, finance, and program management
• Build deeper expertise in government contracting and defense proposals, including the full RFP lifecycle
• Strengthen executive-level business acumenthrough risk identification, deal analysis, and cost-based decision support
• Lead process improvement and simplification effortsusing lean principles
• Develop customer-facing experiencewith major U.S. defense stakeholders and audit agencies
• Grow your visibility as a strategic contributorin a role that combines analytics, collaboration, and ownership

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Product Cost Estimator, you will:

• Partner withengineering, supply chain, finance, and program managementteams to develop and support cost estimates using long-term business valuation projections and other relevant inputs
• Perform analytical reviews ofhistorical cost datafrom multiple internal systems to develop robust cost estimates
• Analyze business data and preparecomprehensive cost analysis reportsthat support proposal strategy and decision-making
• Identify, assess, and clearly communicatedeal risks and opportunitiesto deal factory management
• Supportcost estimating auditswith internal and external audit teams, including ownership of follow-up actions and findings as appropriate
• Drive a culture ofcontinuous improvementthrough lean principles and practical process enhancements
• Identify and leadcost estimating process improvements, simplification efforts, and adoption of best practices
• Support thefull RFP lifecycle, including proposal submission, fact-finding, and negotiations with internal and external customers
• Evaluate cost bases to improveforecast accuracyand help accelerate proposal cycles
• Build expertise in theDefense Engines and Systemsbusiness
• This role is available in Evendale Ohio or can be hybrid or remote US Only.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting from an accredited college or university or related field.
• Minimum of5- 8 years of experiencein Data Analytics,risk management, accounting, finance, sourcing, government contracting, or a related field
• Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to build and evaluate complex spreadsheets and analyze large, multi-source datasets

Preferred Qualifications

We're especially interested in candidates who bring:

• Experience working withDCMA, DCAA, or similar government agencies
• Strong ability to understand customer needs and explaincomplex estimating methodologiesclearly to internal and external stakeholders
• Provencritical thinking and analytical problem-solvingskills
• Experience in Big 4 or consulting
• Demonstrated success leadingprograms, projects, or process improvement initiatives

• Strong planning, documentation, and execution skills
• Solidproject managementcapability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A collaborative mindset and ability to work cross-functionally
• The ability to anticipate risks, identify issues early, and drive resolution
• Adaptability and resilience through changing business conditions
• Understanding of theFederal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
• A stronglean and continuous improvement mindset

The base pay range for this position is $119,000.00 - 158,000.00 . The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. [If equity-eligible, should say "You are also equity-eligible"] This posting is expected to close on [include anticipated date expected to close on June 18, 2026.

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor"). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor's welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.