Summary:
Reporting to the Commercial Manager, the Estimator is responsible for producing bid packages for new and existing projects in line with Company procedures and customer requirements.
Role & Responsibilities
- Creation of the bid package
- Maintain records of WIP, failed and won bid packages.
- Work in conjunction with Engineering, Customer Services, Program Management, Purchasing and Finance to support customer quotation requests to tight and aggressive deadlines.
- Effective escalation of threats or blockers to the bid submission.
- Communication with all levels of management and external suppliers.
- Active recording of ‘lessons learnt’ to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the bidding process.
- Identify improvement activities to drive the estimating process towards consistent best practices.
- Gain personal skills and experience to reduce reliance on external/internal staff for the creation of bids.
- Become proficient in the use of all relevant estimating software or spreadsheets.
- Create new items/assemblies/routings/BoMs within the inhouse systems database.
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Comply with all relevant internal rules, policies and procedures, including those related to Health and Safety, Data Protection and issued Employee Handbook.
Knowledge & Experience
- Strong commercial, manufacturing and engineering background with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Ability to create method of manufacture for both development and production components.
- Good understanding of quality requirements within the aerospace industry – ability to read and interpret specifications.
- Proven and relevant cost estimating experience covering both manufactured parts, purchased parts and processing.
- Experience of constructing bid packages in an aerospace manufacturing environment.
- Ability to identify and communicate business risks when constructing bids.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Full understanding of multi-level / mixed BoM structures, with an understanding of fabrication, machining and assembly stages and methods.
- Knowledge of assembly
- Worked in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work without supervision.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Exceptional communication and customer service skills.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to multitask.
- IT literate to intermediate level (Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint and outlook)
- Knowledge of PFMEA’s, DCM’s, Control plans, inspection methods, etc.
Hours of work
39 hour working week Monday – Friday
Salary Range
£40,000.00 – £45,000.00
Reporting To: Commercial Manager
To apply for this position, please email: hr@dynamicfabs.co.uk
