Cost Estimator
About the role
Flatter, Inc. (Flatter) is hiring a Lifecycle Cost Estimator to support the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Trade Transformation Office Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Modernization effort. The position develops, analyzes, and maintains life-cycle cost models to support program planning, budgeting, and decision-making. The role applies structured cost estimating methodologies across the full system lifecycle, from concept development through operations and sustainment. The Lifecycle Cost Estimator analyzes complex cost data, develops cost estimates and supporting documentation, evaluates cost risks and alternatives, and communicates cost drivers, assumptions, and findings to program stakeholders and leadership. The position supports modernization activities intended to enhance trade facilitation, supply chain transparency, data sharing, automation, integration, and data quality.
This position operates in a professional office environment in a hybrid work arrangement within the Washington, DC Metro Area. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Life Cycle Cost Estimates (LCCEs) in accordance with applicable regulatory guidance, including OMB, GAO, DoD, and DHS guidance.
- Build cost models covering acquisition, operations, maintenance, and disposal phases of programs or systems.
- Conduct cost analyses using parametric, analogy-based, engineering build-up, and extrapolation techniques.
- Perform cost risk and uncertainty analyses using probabilistic methods, including Monte Carlo simulations.
- Analyze historical cost data and normalize datasets for use in estimating models.
- Work with large datasets and perform data cleansing, validation, statistical analysis, and regression modeling in support of cost estimates.
- Conduct sensitivity analyses and identify key program cost drivers.
- Interpret data trends and apply findings to forecasting and