Job Description
Title: Manufacturing Estimator
Location: Topeka, KS
Responsibilities:
- Develop a full understanding of IMI estimating policies, procedures, and company/industry standards.
- Identify scope of work, perform quantity analysis, and prepare cost estimates.
- Build and develop vendor relations and strategies
- Solicit quotations from material vendors and subcontractors, evaluate responses and make recommendations.
- Create written proposals and corresponding presentations to ensure that customer needs and expectations are clearly communicated and accurately documented.
- Receive, review, and process costing inquiries from both internal and external sources.
- Develop schedules that accurately reflect the scope of the work and confirm alignment with priorities and resource allocation. Critical path must be defined.
- Communicate regularly with supply chain to ensure most recent and accurate pricing is available.
- Communicate regularly with operations management to ensure the most recent labor rates are available.
- Review and assist with development of project scope.
- Collect historical cost data to estimate costs for current or future projects.
- Prepare estimates used by management for purposes such as planning, organizing, and scheduling work.
Qualifications:
- You believe anything worth doing is worth doing right, no matter how “small”.
- You live in the details.
- You have the motivation and ability to learn and improve processes and tools.
- You enjoy thinking critically and solving problems.
- You communicate clearly and concisely in both written and verbal form.
- You are proficient in MS Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, and PowerPoint. You have experience or are ready to learn ERP and Project Management Software.
- You have minimum of 2 years of relevant experience (Construction or Material Handling preferred) and a college degree (Bachelor’s in Finance, Accounting, or Engineering preferred) or equivalent experience.
- You have or wish to pursue your PCEA certification or something similar.
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