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