Estimator

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