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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