Mgr I- Business Proc at BAE Systems in Location not listed

The Change Order Proposal Manager is a critical leadership role responsible for overseeing the identification, quantification, and pricing of scope changes during vessel repair projects. This role manages a team of estimators, schedulers and planners to ensure that all deviations from the original contract are accurately captured, priced, and submitted for customer approval in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Management
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of estimators, schedulers and planners providing technical guidance on complex repair scopes.
• Allocate resources across multiple concurrent projects to ensure balanced workloads and deadline adherence.
• Establish standardized estimating templates and workflows to ensure consistency across all change order submissions.
• Conduct performance reviews and identify training needs to improve the team's technical proficiency in maritime repair.
• Oversee the end-to-end change order process: from the initial issuance of change order to final customer sign-off.
• Review and validate labor hours, material costs, and subcontractor quotes for accuracy.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Production Superintendents and Contracts to ensure that "growth work" is identified immediately upon discovery.
• Monitor the financial health of projects by tracking the delta between the original bid and the final contracted value.
• Analyze trends in change order growth to improve the accuracy of future base-bid estimates.
• Ensure all change orders are documented with sufficient evidence (photos, reports, and logs).
• Provide senior leadership with regular reports on pending vs. approved change order values.
• Partner with the Procurement department to secure real-time pricing for materials.
• Work closely with the Planning department to integrate approved change orders into the production schedule.