Job Description
Title: Estimator
Location: Addison, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $60k-$70k/yr.
Benefits: 401(k), Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Flexible Schedule, Professional Development Opportunities
Job Duties:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customers within an assigned territory, responding to inquiries regarding pricing, product availability, order status, and technical questions.
- Develop and maintain relationships with architects, general contractors, metal fabricators, installers, landscapers, and other key stakeholders.
- Prospect and cultivate new business opportunities to drive sales growth and achieve territory goals.
- Review project specifications, drawings, and customer requirements to prepare estimates and recommend appropriate product solutions.
- Interpret construction drawings, specifications, and system requirements to support quoting and project execution.
- Coordinate with Sales Support to process orders, returns, exchanges, and shipment of samples and marketing materials.
- Provide technical guidance to customers throughout various stages of the project lifecycle.
- Troubleshoot product-related concerns and professionally resolve customer issues and claims.
- Collaborate with marketing, production, operations, and sales teams to ensure seamless communication and customer satisfaction.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in building materials, construction estimating, inside sales, business development, or a related field.
- Experience within steel and cable manufacturing, metal fabrication, fencing systems, architectural products, or related industries preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years of AutoCAD experience required.
- Minimum of 2 years of construction estimating experience required.
- Ability to read and interpret project specifications, architectural drawings, and construction documents.
- Strong understanding of construction materials, system assemblies, installation practices, and applicable codes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build relationships across all levels of an organization.
- Strong presentation, organizational, and customer service skills.
- Experience using ERP systems, CRM platforms, and customer support software.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Addison, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $60,000–$70,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Architectural Servicesunmatched
- AutoCADunmatched
- Business Developmentunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Constructionunmatched
- Construction Document Setunmatched
- Construction Drawingsunmatched
- Construction Estimatesunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
- Customer Satisfactionunmatched
- Customer Service Softwareunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Inside Salesunmatched
- Landscapingunmatched
- Marketingunmatched
- Metal Manufacturingunmatched
- Order Processingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Pricingunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Lifecycleunmatched
- Resolve Customer Issuesunmatched
- Returns Processingunmatched
- Revenue Growthunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Sales Supportunmatched
- Steel Industryunmatched
- System Architectureunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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