ESTIMATOR - BASE OPERATIONS SUPPORT

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction, and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields - each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits packages, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself, want your day job to create meaningful value, and are seeking an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences, then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

The Estimator-Base Operations Support will be responsible for supporting the development of complex, multi-year federal proposals. The ideal candidate will have experience in successfully translating technical scopes into accurate, defensible pricing for large service contracts supporting military and federal installations.

To be successful, the candidate will need to understand how facilities and base operations work in practice and easily convert that reality into compliant, competitive cost models. This position plays a critical role in shaping win strategies while protecting the business from inexecutable assumptions.

Work Model: In-Office/On-Site

• Build end-to-end cost estimates for BOS and facilities contracts.
• Analyze RFPs and decompose requirements by annex, CLIN, and task.
• Develop labor-hour models using RSMeans, Whitestone, historical data, OEM data, and operational inputs.
• Translate performance standards and response times into executable labor models.
• Map labor to appropriate BLS codes and SCA classifications.
• Develop staffing plans aligned to workload drivers and performance requirements.
• Price preventive maintenance, service orders, emergency response, and standing operations.
• Identify cost, schedule, and performance risk early in the capture and proposal lifecycle.
• Support Price-to-Win strategies and competitive positioning.
• Contribute to color reviews.
• Write clear, defensible Bases of Estimate.
• Partner with Operations to validate assumptions and workload drivers.
• Document methodologies clearly for BOEs and audit defense.
• Experience supporting DoD or civilian agency proposals.
• Working knowledge of FAR, DFARS, SCA, and wage determinations.
• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to build and audit complex models.
• Ability to communicate complex cost logic clearly to technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Excellent written communication skills, particularly for BOE development.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support CGS's overall business development strategy.

Accountable For:

• Develop and maintain a three-year Army Account Plan aligned with CGS's five-year strategic growth plan.
• Build and sustain a qualified pipeline that meets or exceeds established growth targets.
• Serve as CGS's subject matter expert for Army programs, customers, and acquisition environments.

Mandatory:

• 5+ years' experience supporting DoD or civilian agency proposals; emphasis on estimating experience for BOS, facilities, or large federal service contracts.
• Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to build, audit, and maintain complex cost models.
• Demonstrated experience developing labor hour models using RSMeans, Whitestone, OEM data, historicals, or other defensible methodologies.
• Ability to write clear, auditable, and defensible Bases of Estimate.
• Familiarity with service level agreements and performance metrics.
• Strong RFP analysis skills, including the ability to decompose requirements by annex, CLIN, and task.
• Ability to manage multiple proposal efforts simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Working understanding of SCA WDs and CBAs.
• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end cost estimates for BOS and facilities contracts.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a high-stakes proposal environment.
• Experience in pricing preventive maintenance, service orders, emergency response, and standing operations.
• Travel up to 25% may be required.

Preferred:

• Prior experience in a BOS, facilities, or O&M operational role. Especially on military installations or large campus environments.
• Experience supporting recompetes and transition-in pricing, including staffing ramp plans and first-year cost risk.
• Prior participation in on-site surveys, site visits, or technical solution development for BOS proposals.
• Field experience in one or more core trades such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing, civil, or general facilities maintenance.
• Developing staffing plans, to include staffing models and Organizational Charts, aligned to workload drivers and performance requirements.
• Experience working with Operations leaders to reconcile bid versus execution.
• Experience defending estimates in management reviews, customer discussions, or audit environments.

• Work is performed in a standard office environment.

• Travel up to 25% may be required.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Occasional lifting of office supplies or equipment up to 20 pounds.
• Regular use of hands for typing, writing, and handling documents.

Reasonable Accommodation:

CGS will provide reasonable accommodations, in accordance with applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Chugach Government Solutions or any of its subsidiaries, please email ada@chugachgov.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Chugach is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.