Reporting To: Sales Director
The company
The company is based in Consett, County Durham and specialises in the reverse engineering of rotating equipment. We service and repair all varieties of large industrial pumps; spare parts are manufactured in our own machine shop via reverse engineering. We are at an exciting point in our development and this is a new position in the estimating department which has arisen due to considerable growth.
Job summary
The successful applicant will report directly to the Sales Director whilst supporting a busy production team. Ideally with a background in machining and with experience of calculating time spent on tasks within a machine shop.
Key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
- Calculate job costs
- Utilise sketches and drawings to determine task times in a conventional machine shop
- Source material and subcontract prices
- Interpret detailed repair plans to estimate the costs of service/repair jobs
- Collate all the above into complete repair quotes and draft quotation to the customer
- Maintain records of calculations in a database
- Utilise same database to improve efficiency
Person Specification
- Fully committed to Quality, Cost and Delivery
- An accurate and flexible approach to all matters
- Unflappable and cool during busy periods
- Proficient in Excel and Word with experience of ERP systems
- Ability to work within a small but multi-disciplined team
- Robust and determined
- Mechanical Engineering background
Package
- Salary: £ negotiable dependent on experience
- 37 Hours per week 07:30 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday | 07:30 – 12:30 Friday.
- Pension: Company contribution
- Holidays 25 days per year, plus bank holidays
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Radius Allowance payable based on commute to work miles