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Job Title: Estimating Manager
Location: Elk Grove Village, IL
Duration: Full Time, Permanent (Onsite)
someone from Metal or precision manufacturing industry
Job Description
About the Role
The Estimating Manager leads our quoting process from RFQ intake through pricing approval and handoff to Engineering. It's a fast-paced, high-mix environment where speed, accuracy, and good prioritization directly impact our ability to win business.
Day to day, you will:
Manage and prioritize a busy queue of RFQs
Review and approve quotes before they go to customers
Assign and balance workload across the estimating team
Partner with Sales, Engineering, Production, and Purchasing to keep work moving
Mentor and develop estimators
Help improve our estimating tools and processes
Requirements
What We're Looking For
Hands-on estimating experience in precision metal fabrication or similar manufacturing
Prior supervisory or leadership experience
Strong prioritization and decision-making skills, especially with incomplete or changing information
Comfortable working cross-functionally
Strong math, analytical, computer, and communication skills
Degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering is a plus, but not required
The right person treats estimating as a business function, accurate enough to protect margin, fast enough to win the work.
Physical Requirements:
· Exert up to 25 pounds of force occasionally
· Ability to communicate with others and accommodation as required to listen to equipment
· Accommodation as required for reading documents, prints, quality instruments, and computer screens
Work Conditions:
Typical metal manufacturing environment with exposure to powder coat paint facility. Both active and sedentary work, which may involve repetitive motions of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers, walking, standing, bending and lifting.
Benefits Programs
· Group Medical, Dental and Vision insurance available at 31st day of full-time employment.
· Company-provided Term Life Insurance on the 1st of the month following or coinciding 90 days of employment.
· Participation in our 401(k) program on the 1st of the month following or coinciding 30 days if employment, which includes fully vested company matching.
· Short and Long Term Disability program after 1st year of employment.
Paid Time Off
· Company Paid Holidays.
· IL Paid Leave for All Workers Act (PLA)
· Vacation Time is based on employment anniversary and will be given per the following schedule:
1 week after 6 months, 1 week after 1 year, 2 weeks after 2 years, 3 weeks after 5 years.