Job title: Bid Estimator
Location: Derby
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Our client is looking for an experienced Estimator / Bid estimator to join their business supporting the Commercial Team. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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