Category: Bids & Proposals
Location: Mojave, CA
Citizenship Required: United States Citizenship
Clearance Type: None
Schedule: 9/80 Work Schedule
Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
Bonus: This position is eligible for a signing bonus
Benefits: 100% Paid Benefits and 401k Matching
Summary:
Founded by legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites is a 40-year-old aerospace company continually working to push boundaries, prove out ideas, and influence the future. We are a rapid prototyping and manufacturing facility, designing, building, and testing proof-of-concept and prototype vehicles. We have flown an average of one new aircraft type per year over our 40-year history such as Proteus, GlobalFlyer, SpaceShipOne, Model 401, and Stratolaunch.
Scaled Composites is seeking a Principal/ Senior Principal Proposal Analyst to join our team. The successful candidate will collaborate with various departments across the company to develop cost and schedule estimates and craft clear, accurate proposals outlining how Scaled Composites will meet customer requirements. Through the capture process, they will work closely with contracts, engineering, business management, procurement, and leadership to ensure alignment and completeness. This role will also serve as a primary interface with customers, leading proposal efforts. In addition, the candidate will support data capture and reduction initiatives to help generate new proposal tools and service existing ones.
Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinate and manage the full life cycle of the proposal process including initiation, development, submission, and follow-up
- Compile cost, schedule, and technical elements in the development of proposals in accordance with request for proposal (RFP) specifications
- Write and compile content for compelling, award-winning technical volumes for submission with the proposal package
- Field, organize, and respond to customer solicitations and requests
- Participate in scope, schedule, and pricing reviews with management and customer representatives
- Seek out and incorporate proposal input from project teams, contracts, and support departments
- Analyze specifications, including sketches, blueprints, bills of material, or sample layouts, and calculate costs using labor and material pricing metrics and historical data
- Develop Basis of Estimate and Bill of Materials in support of proposal audits
- Create pricing models and cost estimating relationships
- Assist in creating database of prior Scaled efforts that capture historical performance data
- Ensure external laws, internal procedures, and standards are met
- Perform program closeout analysis
- Support Annual Operating Plan, Long-Rang Spend Plan, and award plan deliverables
- Conduct ad hoc and special projects as required
- Ability to multi-task and work multiple assignments simultaneously
Basic Qualifications for Level 3 Principal Proposal Analyst:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics or related discipline with 5 years of proposal or material estimating experience OR a master's degree in business, finance, economics or related discipline with 3 years of proposal or material estimating experience
- Must have thorough understanding of pricing and estimating methodologies, quality, and compliance requirements (FAR/DFARS) related to cost volumes and Cost Estimating System requirements.
- Active Secret Clearance, preferred
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret Clearance and Program Access.
- Travel may be required up to 5% (CONUS)
Basic Qualifications for Level 4 Senior Principal Proposal Analyst:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics or related discipline with 8 years of proposal or material estimating experience OR a master's degree in business, finance, economics or related discipline with 6 years of proposal or material estimating experience
- Must have thorough understanding of pricing and estimating methodologies, quality, and compliance requirements (FAR/DFARS) related to cost volumes and Cost Estimating System requirements.
- Active Top Secret Clearance, preferred
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Program Access.
- Travel may be required up to 5% (CONUS)
Essential Job Functions:
- Requires mobility and the ability to bend and reach
- May infrequently require lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling materials weighing up to 30 pounds.
- Manual dexterity and coordination are required; repetitive hand motion (e.g., to operate computer keyboard)
- Vision at close distances and the ability to adjust focus for prolonged periods (i.e., computer screen)
- Ability to remain sedentary or stationary for prolonged periods of time
- Ability to write for extended periods of time
- Ability to work in an office setting for prolonged periods of time
- May be asked to carry up to 20 lbs. up and down a flight of stairs on a regular basis such as files, books, office equipment, etc.
- Occasional reaching overhead and lifting up to 15 pounds
- Ability to converse and communicate information with others
- Occasional exposure to chemical vapors and/or fumes in low non-hazardous concentration
- Potential to climb up and down steps on a daily basis
- Must be able to read and understand SDS
Level 3 Principal Proposal Analyst: $94,200 - $141,200
Level 4 Senior Principal Proposal Analyst: $117,500 - $176,300
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, or a related discipline with 5 years of proposal or material estimating experience, or a master’s degree with 3 years of experience for Level 3
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, or a related discipline with 8 years of proposal or material estimating experience, or a master’s degree with 6 years of experience for Level 4
- Thorough understanding of pricing and estimating methodologies, quality, and compliance requirements related to FAR/DFARS cost volumes and Cost Estimating System requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance and Program Access for Level 3
- Ability to obtain and maintain Program Access for Level 4
- United States citizenship
- Active Secret clearance for Level 3
- Active Top Secret clearance for Level 4
What We Do
Scaled Composites is a specialty aerospace and composites development company offering design, build, and test capabilities. It handles projects from early ideas and engineering through fabrication and evaluation, producing proof-of-concept and prototype vehicles. The company focuses on cost-effective, rapid development of new aircraft and other aerospace vehicles, combining hands-on problem-solving with integrated technical work to validate concepts and help advance milestones in aviation and space.
