Key Recruitment are working in Partnership with a leading Aerospace business in the Derby Area, they are looking for an estimator to join their commercial team and provide a positive contribution to the company and strategic longterm goals.
Role & Responsibilities
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Creation of the bid package
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Maintain records of WIP, failed and won bid packages.
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Work in conjunction with Engineering, Customer Services, Program Management, Purchasing and Finance to support customer quotation requests to tight and aggressive deadlines.
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Effective escalation of threats or blockers to the bid submission.
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Communication with all levels of management and external suppliers.
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Active recording of ‘lessons learnt’ to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the bidding process.
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Identify improvement activities to drive the estimating process towards consistent best practices.
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Gain personal skills and experience to reduce reliance on external/internal staff for the creation of bids.
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Become proficient in the use of all relevant estimating software or spreadsheets.
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Create new items/assemblies/routings/BoMs within the inhouse systems database.
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Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
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Comply with all relevant internal rules, policies and procedures, including those related to Health and Safety, Data Protection and issued Employee Handbook.
Knowledge & Experience
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Strong commercial, manufacturing and engineering background with a continuous improvement mindset.
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Ability to create method of manufacture for both development and production components.
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Good understanding of quality requirements within the aerospace industry – ability to read and interpret specifications.
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Proven and relevant cost estimating experience covering both manufactured parts, purchased parts and processing.
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Experience of constructing bid packages in an aerospace manufacturing environment.
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Ability to identify and communicate business risks when constructing bids.
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Ability to meet deadlines.
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Full understanding of multi-level / mixed BoM structures, with an understanding of fabrication, machining and assembly stages and methods.
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Knowledge of assembly
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Worked in a manufacturing environment.
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Strong attention to detail.
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Ability to work without supervision.
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Excellent time management skills.
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Exceptional communication and customer service skills.
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Strong organisational skills, with the ability to multitask.
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IT literate to intermediate level (Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint and outlook)
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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