Estimator
Job Location: Wimborne, Dorset
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: Excellent starting salary depending on level of experience
Hours: 38.75 hours per week, 7.45am – 5pm Monday to Thursday, Friday 7.45am – 12.45pm
A well-known manufacturing company that supplies many industry sectors including electronics, medical, telecommunications & retail are seeking to recruit an Estimator to join their team.
They have a strong reputation with our existing client base which has been built around offering design support, quality products, and high levels of customer service.
The successful candidate will need to be a highly motivated individual who has previous estimating experience, with a background in sheet metal to join our team.
Your focus will be to work within the team collaboratively with the production team working on new & existing sheet metal engineering quotations and projects.
Main duties:
* To prepare costings based on engineering/technical drawings, for a varied product line.
* Prepare customer estimates
* Analyse new and existing jobs, working towards the betterment of the engineering processes being used.
* You will be required to liaise with customers on occasion, providing a confident level of technical support, advising on best practices and capabilities.
* Liaise with supporting departments, providing technical and administrative duties to improve the sheet metal processes and internal work instructions.
Required qualities:
* Previous experience from a sheet metal fabrication background is essential
* Good understanding of production / sales cost.
* Previous experience in costing, target costs, and return estimates are desirable
* Able to understand technical drawings, and translate in line with production costings / estimates
* Enthusiastic team player with a positive outlook, driven towards results and personal targets
* Experience within the engineering sector, with strong exposure to sheet metal fabrication-based products, would be an advantage.
For more information on this position, company or to apply for this role, please contact our recruitment team on (phone number removed) or send your CV.
Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually so If you do not hear from us within 3 days, please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise, we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles.
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