<ul><li>Cost Estimation: You deliver high-quality cost estimates for DAC plant projects across all project phases (FEL-0/1/2/3) and ensure on-time delivery for board meetings, gate reviews, and internal deadlines.</li><li>Tools &amp; Models: You develop, own, and continuously improve cost estimation models, databases, and tools to ensure accuracy, comparability, and standardization across projects.</li><li>Subject Matter Expertise: You act as the company’s trusted expert for CAPEX cost estimates, defending estimates in front of the C-suite and providing guidance to colleagues across the organization.</li><li>Value Engineering: You lead value-engineering activities to drive cost-down initiatives, supporting both technical and commercial decisions.</li><li>Collaboration: You create cost estimates in cooperation with internal stakeholders, EPCs, and contractors in a transparent and cooperative manner.</li><li>Knowledge Management: You establish and maintain project cost databases, document project cost histories, and support project close-out reporting.</li><li>Innovation: You design and implement fit-for-purpose estimating processes and tools tailored to direct air capture technology, covering both DAC machinery and balance of plant equipment.</li></ul><ul><li>Education &amp; Background: You hold a BSc in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field, with at least 10 years of experience in cost estimating for major capital projects.</li><li>Industry Expertise: You have gained experience in a scale-up or first-of-its-kind environment, with exposure to complex, innovative CAPEX projects.</li><li>Technical Skills: You are proficient with industry-recognized tools such as Aspen Capital Cost Estimator, Cleopatra, RSMeans, or similar — advanced proficiency is a strong plus.</li><li>Mindset: You are self-motivated, structured, and organized, and you thrive in an environment where you can both work independently and contribute to shared success.</li><li>Integrity &amp; Values: You showcase our values consistently and lead by example, setting a positive standard through your actions, integrity, and commitment to collaboration.</li><li>Communication: You communicate fluently in English, with strong presentation skills that allow you to engage confidently with colleagues and leaders at all levels.</li><li>Flexibility: You are willing to travel up to 20% of the time to visit suppliers, EPCs, and project sites.</li></ul>

Climeworks empowers people to fight climate change by permanently removing CO₂ from the air with direct air capture technology. We are dedicated to purpose, we are disruptive thinkers, and we are one team.
We develop, build and operate direct air capture (DAC) machines, which capture CO₂ directly from the air. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and reused as a raw material or completely removed from the air by safely storing it underground, permanently.
Founded in 2009 by engineers, Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks was built with the vision to inspire 1 billion people to remove CO₂ from the air, and is now the leader in technological carbon removal.
We are featured as a&nbsp;<a href="https://climeworks.com/news/climeworks-named-one-of-time100-most-influential-companies" data-nuxt-link="">TIME100 Influential Company 2022</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://climeworks.com/news/climeworks-is-selected-for-2022-global-cleantech-100" data-nuxt-link="">Global Cleantech 100 Company 2022</a>&nbsp;and drive a revolutionary technology engineered to solve the most pressing issue of our time.

Lead Cost Estimator (100%)

<ul><li>Cost Estimation: You deliver high-quality cost estimates for DAC plant projects across all project phases (FEL-0/1/2/3) and ensure on-time delivery for board meetings, gate reviews, and internal deadlines.</li><li>Tools &amp; Models: You develop, own, and continuously improve cost estimation models, databases, and tools to ensure accuracy, comparability, and standardization across projects.</li><li>Subject Matter Expertise: You act as the company’s trusted expert for CAPEX cost estimates, defending estimates in front of the C-suite and providing guidance to colleagues across the organization.</li><li>Value Engineering: You lead value-engineering activities to drive cost-down initiatives, supporting both technical and commercial decisions.</li><li>Collaboration: You create cost estimates in cooperation with internal stakeholders, EPCs, and contractors in a transparent and cooperative manner.</li><li>Knowledge Management: You establish and maintain project cost databases, document project cost histories, and support project close-out reporting.</li><li>Innovation: You design and implement fit-for-purpose estimating processes and tools tailored to direct air capture technology, covering both DAC machinery and balance of plant equipment.</li></ul><ul><li>Education &amp; Background: You hold a BSc in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field, with at least 10 years of experience in cost estimating for major capital projects.</li><li>Industry Expertise: You have gained experience in a scale-up or first-of-its-kind environment, with exposure to complex, innovative CAPEX projects.</li><li>Technical Skills: You are proficient with industry-recognized tools such as Aspen Capital Cost Estimator, Cleopatra, RSMeans, or similar — advanced proficiency is a strong plus.</li><li>Mindset: You are self-motivated, structured, and organized, and you thrive in an environment where you can both work independently and contribute to shared success.</li><li>Integrity &amp; Values: You showcase our values consistently and lead by example, setting a positive standard through your actions, integrity, and commitment to collaboration.</li><li>Communication: You communicate fluently in English, with strong presentation skills that allow you to engage confidently with colleagues and leaders at all levels.</li><li>Flexibility: You are willing to travel up to 20% of the time to visit suppliers, EPCs, and project sites.</li></ul>

Lead Cost Estimator (100%)

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