Estimating Manager
Growing, Waukesha local manufacturing company looking for a strong technical leader to join us in leading our Estimating team to help align quoting processes with critical sales strategies to ensure accurate, competitive, and timely preparation of quotations. Strong emphasis on building out a collaborative, high-impact estimating team focused on customer experience and partnership with internal manufacturing teams.
Great opportunity for someone looking to continue developing develop leadership skills in a better company culture while applying technical expertise to directly impact revenue generation and long-term company growth. This role will help bridge the gap between sales, engineering, and operations by integrating sales and quoting strategies with company capabilities, operational constraints. Role will be crucial in providing guidance and tactical support to prepare key quote packages and drive continuous improvement in quotation processes.
Ideal candidates will have strong work ethic, natural ability to build relationships cross-functionally, and a competitive mindset, along with Engineering and/or Estimating background in several of the company’s core manufacturing disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop the estimating team to deliver accurate, timely cost estimates for customers in all manufacturing divisions.
- Review customer RFQs, drawings, and specs to determine scope, risks, and requirements.
- Work closely with sales, engineering, and production teams to align estimates with customer needs, company capabilities, constraints.
- Prepare detailed quotes, costing models, as needed to support opportunity assessments.
- Ensure estimates incorporate competitive market pricing and profitability strategies.
- Assist sales in negotiations as needed providing insights into costing, manufacturability, and value-added engineering options.
- Standardize and improve estimating processes, tools, and databases to increase accuracy and efficiency.
- Develop, track, analyze quoting analytics, and key estimating KPI’s for reporting.
Starting pay based on related manufacturing knowledge, estimating, leadership experience
Great benefits