Estimator / Quoter
Job Description
Job Description
Position Summary:
The Manufacturing Estimator / Quoter prepares accurate, competitive, and timely quotations for custom-manufactured products. This role evaluates customer drawings, specifications, material requirements, labor, tooling, production processes, and supplier costs; collaborates with sales, engineering, purchasing, and operations; and maintains quote documentation to support profitable business decisions.
Essential/Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Following all health and safety requirements, safety policy and company policy. Report any observed violation to the superior or hazardous situation to the Safety Committee
- Review RFQs, drawings, CAD files, specifications, volumes, tolerances, quality requirements, and delivery expectations for completeness.
- Develop detailed cost estimates for materials, labor, machine time, setup, tooling, outside processing, packaging, freight, and scrap/yield.
- Obtain and evaluate supplier pricing and lead times; identify alternate materials or processes for cost and manufacturability improvements.
- Partner with engineering, production, quality, purchasing, and sales to validate assumptions, capacity, manufacturing methods, and customer requirements.
- Prepare professional quotations with pricing, lead times, minimum order quantities, tooling charges, assumptions, and commercial exceptions.
- Maintain RFQ logs, cost models, quote revisions, supporting documentation, and ERP/CRM records; follow up on open quotations.
- Analyze historical job costs and quote-to-actual variances; recommend updates to estimating standards and margins.
- Identify technical, scheduling, supply-chain, and profitability risks and escalate them before quote submission.
- Participate in customer and internal discussions to clarify scope, changes, and cost impacts.
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- 2+ years of manufacturing estimating, quoting, costing, production planning, or related experience preferred.
- Ability to read engineering drawings, dimensions, tolerances, bills of materials, and manufacturing specifications.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, cycle times, labor standards, materials, and production costs.
- Proficiency in Excel and familiarity with ERP/MRP or quoting systems.
- Strong mathematical, analytical, organizational, communication, and time-management skills.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience with custom rubber, elastomer, molded, machined, or fabricated components.
- Familiarity with tooling, molds, setup costs, material yields, and outside processing.
- Experience using CAD viewers, cost models, and margin analysis.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Thoughtful, fair, and even-handed temperament
- Team oriented
- Computer literate – good computer skills
- Ability to multitask
- Ability to read, understand and follow written work instruction
- Ability to perform basic mathematical computation (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
- Plan material deliveries to meet production demand
- Ability to clearly communicate issues to TRG team
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively; verbally and written
- Good organizational and prioritization skills
- Good supplier relationship management
Education and Experience Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Familiarity with ERP/MRP software
- Negotiation skills
- Good working knowledge of MS Office and Excel
Other Requirements:
- None
Physical Demands:
- NA (Not Applicable)
- Seldom (1-10% of the time)
- Occasional (10-30% of the time)
- Frequent (30-70% of the time)
- Constant (over 70% of the time)
Activity
Frequency
Activity
Frequency
Sitting
Frequent
Climbing ladders
NA
Standing
Occasional
Working at heights/balancing
NA
Walking
Occasional
Bending/twisting at waist
Seldom
Driving/Forklift
NA
Kneeling/Squatting/Crouching
Seldom
Lifting <25#
Seldom
Crawling
NA
Lifting 25-50#
Frequent
Reaching above shoulder
Seldom
Lifting >50#
NA
Repetitive hand/arm movement
Constant
Carrying <25#
Seldom
Handling/Grasping
Occasional
Carrying 25-50#
Seldom
Fine finger manipulation
Frequent
Carrying >50#
NA
Seeing
Constant
Pushing/Pulling
Seldom
Hearing
Constant
Climbing stairs
Seldom
Talking
Frequent