Job Description

Orano's Project IKE is seeking an experienced Project Estimator to support the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

This isn't just another Estimator role. You'll lead the development and maintenance of high-level, facility-wide cost estimates for Project IKE , consolidating total CAPEX and OPEX across all project scopes into a single, integrated program-level cost model. Working at the intersection of owner-level financial oversight and EPC contractor validation, your work will directly support investment decisions, funding approvals, and project controls — for a multi-billion-dollar facility that will power America's energy independence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain program-level and facility-level cost estimates covering all major systems, infrastructure, indirect, and owner's costs, consolidating total CAPEX and lifecycle. OPEX across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations support
• Integrate inputs from multiple scopes, contracts, and project phases into a single normalized cost model, establishing and managing estimate WBS/CBS structures aligned with project controls and financial reporting.
• Work directly with EPC contractors to review detailed estimates, pricing methodologies, labor norms, and indirect cost structures, performing estimate validation, benchmarking, and reconciliation between owner and contractor cost models.
• Lead estimate review workshops and challenge sessions to ensure scope completeness and cost realism, and evaluate contractor change order pricing, cost growth, and trend impacts at the program level.
• Develop parametric and factored estimates for early-phase decision support, and support risk-based estimating, contingency development, and scenario analysis.
• Analyze cost drivers, escalation, productivity assumptions, and market conditions to inform program-level cost positions.
• Align estimates with budgets, forecasts, and cost reports, supporting stage-gate approvals and investment memoranda.
• Maintain estimate basis documentation and version control across all project phases.

Qualifications & Requirements: All candidates must meet the following minimum requirements to be considered for this opportunity. Candidates who exceed minimum qualifications may be considered for a higher-level position.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• a minimum of 5 to 12 years of estimating experience on large capital projects, with demonstrated experience producing facility-level or program-level CAPEX estimates.
• Experience consolidating multi-contract and multi-discipline cost models.
• Expertise in high-level (Class 5–Class 3) estimating, parametric modeling, and cost scaling.
• Strong proficiency in Excel-based cost integration models and estimating platforms such as Aspen, InEight, CostX, or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of indirect costs, owner's costs, escalation, contingency, and lifecycle cost modeling.
• Ability to interpret EPC detailed estimates and perform independent validation.

Preferred Qualification & Requirement:

• Experience working on the owner's side in coordination with EPC contractors.
• Knowledge of AACE cost estimate classifications and recommended practices.
• Experience with risk analysis tools such as Monte Carlo, @Risk, or Primavera Risk Analysis.
• Background in large, complex, or regulated projects such as energy, nuclear, DOE, infrastructure, or industrial megaprojects.

Orano employees select from a wide variety of individual and family insurance coverage options: medical/dental/vision/life, RX co-pay, short- and long-term disability options, health savings accounts.

Orano employees will also receive accrued paid time off (PTO), paid federal holidays, a corporate-wide paid Christmas/Holiday week, employer matching retirement accounts, tuition assistance, and many other corporate amenities such as health/finance/family support.

Orano is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Orano and all subsidiaries abide by applicable legal requirements. We ensure that all personnel actions such as recruitment, compensation, career development, benefits, and company-sponsored training are administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran, or other protected status.

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