Cost Manager

Job description / Role

About Us:

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Role Summary:

The Cost Manager will be the primary contact responsible for the whole Job Cost Estimate (JCE) process to ensure enhanced efficiency & productivity. The principal focus will be to generate competitive JCEs while working with the various functions to ensure cost estimate accuracy, on time delivery and productivity.

Essential Responsibilities:

The essential Responsibilities of the Cost Manager are:

- Support operations team, sales team, and commercial team as primary contact for projects costing estimates
- Support the functions in generating JCEs for services & repair projects this would include CM&U type projects
- Ensure Fulfillment Managers accept & approve JCEs prior to release to the Commercial Team
- Meet all need dates on estimate delivers to ensure on-time proposal delivery by ITO team
- Track JCE on-time delivery and store JCE in specified repository
- Participate in applicable Outage Readiness Reviews and Repair Readiness Reviews to ensure cost estimates are fully captured by execution team
- Support R2 discussions to address costing specific items for deal approvals
- Coordinate with Commercial Manager & Service Manager to identify required information from site to ensure estimate accuracy
- Request as needed field service, repair service, affiliate rates for estimate generation
- Work with sourcing to obtain as needed rates
- Collaborate with JCE Developer peers to support needs and share expertise
- Take part in post outage review to review as estimate / as executed results; capture variance drivers, corrective actions, best practices & lessons learned
- Support any extra work authorization cost estimate needs as applicable
- Support any lean action workouts to help improve cost position; as applicable

Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited
- Previous experience with JCE process, or other project costing / proposal experience
- Graduate of Field Engineering Program, Operations Management Leadership Program or Commercial Management Leadership Program
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent Quality certification

Desired Characteristics:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering is preferred
- Ability to work well under pressure, in a fast-paced environment
- Six Sigma training is preferred
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem solving abilities

About the Company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.

GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.