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Job Description Summary

The Estimate Automation Analyst will combine their knowledge of vehicle construction and collision damage with data analysis, research, creativity, thought-synthesis, and collaboration to help decompose the broad estimating problems-space into discrete solvable problems. This position requires critical thinking, the ability to simplify a subject matter for all audiences, context switching between workstreams, and the ability to shift focus between big picture and small details. This is a remote position.

Job Duties

• Researches discrete topics related to vehicle damage estimating such as situations and cases under which specific repair techniques are used.
• Analyzes estimate data, part catalog and repair procedures and other inputs to prepare recommendations for approaches to solving challenges in estimating. 
• Collaborates with team of subject matter experts to discuss and deliberate approaches for documenting vehicle damage to arrive at consensus recommendations.
• Uses specialized software tooling to document vehicle construction factors useful to authoring vehicle damage estimating.
• Tracks status and outcome of research activities in a work item tracking database used by the team.
• Communicates effectively with a diverse set of technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Performs research and analysis on how to solve domain-specific topics with many available inputs from AI predictions and algorithms
• Drives assigned tasks to completion while providing transparency on status
• Help define behavior for custom internal software tools to collect, author, and publish data
• Attend meetings prepared to review research results
• Groom and prepare datasets using Excel that illustrate problems or solutions
• Switch between tasks and research activities to ensure forward progress
• Avoid getting blocked or stuck on a single problem
• Promotes and maintains a positive work environment based on trust and respect

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ estimator experience in the automotive collision repair industry
• Detailed knowledge of vehicle construction and the collision damage repair and estimating processes to include researching repair procedures
• Experience as a licensed estimator/appraiser
• Understanding of the insurance appraisal process, and best practices for damage estimating
• Hands on experience with collision estimating software, with a proven record of creating thorough and accurate estimates for consumers
• I-CAR and/or ASE training and certification are beneficial

Characteristics

• Proactive, with a bias towards action
• Detail oriented
• Organized thinker that seeks to structure and rationalize information but can operate with some ambiguity
• Uses mix of analysis, critical thinking, and creativity to solve problems
• Wants to make a difference and is motivated by delivering value to customers in the form of product