Estimating Specialist

The Gund Company•Amsterdam, NY

14h•Onsite

About The Position

Join The Gund Company, where you will find friends who will support and challenge you to crush goals that provide amazing growth opportunities. The company is in the business of electrical insulation manufacturing and prides itself on being a group of fun, driven, problem solvers. The company's mission is to Take Care of Each Other, Take Care of the Customer and Take Care of the Business. The Estimating Specialist focuses on determining the best process cost structure to meet customer requirements. Based on this understanding, the specialist works with customer service and sales teams to prepare quotations. This role is responsible for cost estimates of labor and materials on proposed projects for bid, analyzing project details, and collaborating with engineering and production staff to ensure accuracy. The position requires extensive knowledge of products and services. The individual will be capable of performing tasks in multiple areas of the functional discipline, becoming a content expert in one or more. Work assignments require deep discipline-specific knowledge and/or experience, and the individual will be sought out to address problems and questions. Work activities involve regular communication with individuals both internal and external to the company. With limited oversight, this individual will document and administer processes and lead interdisciplinary teams in process improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Three to five years’ experience with custom manufacturing quoting processes.
Outstanding Excel skills including formulas, lookup tables, and ODBC links.
Proficiency creating written and pictorial documentation of manufacturing processes, especially for the purpose of documenting capability and best process cost structures.
Experience with computer software including MS Office and ERP software.

Nice To Haves

Experience working as a machinist or craftsman a plus
Experience working in an ISO quality environment a plus
Associates Degree and Relative Certifications a plus

Responsibilities

By market/facility, become an expert in the product line, production capabilities, and cost structure related to satisfying our customer’s requirements.
Assist in customer requirement review including specifications and drawings.
Coordinate any customer specification deviation requests.
Visit TGC facilities participating in GEMBA and Kaizen activities to understand and document our process capability and related cost structure.
Develop and improve costing calculators and models by product line to drive the efficiency and accuracy of the quoting process.
Using TGC’s quoting calculators and Visual Estimating Window, create the costing models that allow TGC to competitively quote customer requirements based on leveraging our company’s global competitive advantages.
Utilize and continuously improve automated quoting module PCM.
Participate in the Quote follow-up process in order to understand “what it will take to earn the business” while working with the sales and service team to make necessary quotation adjustments.
Participate in the ‘after’ Quote process (After Action Review – AAR) in order to understand the customer’s feedback and analyse our process capability for improvement opportunities via Kaizen activities.
Lead the implementation of the Gross Profit Review Process in coordination with the Production Manager, Value Stream Manager, and/or the Market Manager.
Identify gross profit losers including the investigation of root cause and the corresponding correction action.
Identify gross profit excessive winners to provide a proactive price decrease to customers as necessary.
Update Engineering Masters as necessary to reflect best cost process steps and related times.
Assist in leading Kaizen events and ensure that the best cost fabrication practices are documented, implemented and maintained.
Share Kaizen event results (Yokoten) with other facilities while learning from the best practices of other facilities based on their Kaizen events.
Develop, implement, and improve process instructions and standard works.
Take ownership of the red pen improvement process.
Other Duties as asssigned