Estimator

Summary

Responsible for maintaining proper balance between profitability of Company and achievement of complete customer satisfaction. Works with Outside Sales Representatives and Customer Service Representatives to prepare cost estimates for all Company business

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Analyze blueprints and other documentation to compile, calculate and document project cost components to include material and labor estimates

- Preparation of AutoCAD details in support of sales, estimating and project management process

- Perform take-offs, analyzes project parameters and determines strategy for efficient fulfillment of project requirements

- Maintenance of supporting documentation for take-offs, pricing parameter and methodologies used in developing estimates

- Effective communication with involved parties to ensure sales and customer objectives are met

- Consults CAD technicians, Engineers, Project Managers, customers, Customer Service Representatives and Manufacturing team members with questions regarding scope of project

- Ability to understand customer requirements and cost of meeting those requirements within Company guidelines

- Assist in promotion of cost effective customer oriented solutions

- Assesses cost effectiveness of customer designs and recommends value-engineered options and communicates to affected management

- Attention to customer complaints/concerns immediately and facilitation of satisfactory resolution

- Solicitation of quotes from vendors and/or subcontractors for related materials and outside work while applying stipulated gross profit margins

- Support strategic sales plan and marketing strategies outlined by the sales team

- Develop knowledge of best suppliers and competitive prices, awareness of pricing changes

- Coordinate with management team to determine overtime requirements of proposed jobs

- Develop knowledge of inventory position, quantity stocked, usage and reorder point

- Facilitation of meeting Company monthly, quarterly and annual sales goals

- Design sales and strategic marketing activities to achieve Company revenue goals

- Preparation of proposals

- Organizes workflow to meet customer deadlines

- Prepares/maintains organized and indexed electronic and print files of estimates, proposals, drawings and related back-up indexed files for ease in retrieving and understanding

- Prepares/maintains a database directory of suppliers, contractors and subcontractors

- Maintenance of high quality standards

- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

- Ability to work in fast paced, high energy environment

- Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

- Attention to detail and thoroughness

- Ability to understand and respond to directives

- Excellent computer skills

Education and/or experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering or related field or equivalent combination or education, training and experience is required

- 5 plus years experience preferably in manufacturing/distribution, sales or customer service environment

- Ability to prepare AutoCAD details and drawings a plus

- General knowledge of warehouse procedures

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. In a facility, that is not climate-controlled; summer heat and winter cold are conditions that should be expected.