Position Summary We're looking for a collaborative and detail-oriented problem solver who is passionate about delivering accurate, value-driven solutions, building strong partnerships across teams, and helping Falcon Plastics win business through innovation, responsiveness, and operational excellence. This role is responsible for preparing accurate and timely cost estimates and quotations for customers. This role analyzes product specifications, material requirements, tooling, labor, and production processes to determine pricing, support sales opportunities, and ensure profitability. The Estimator works closely with sales, engineering, production, and plant teams to develop competitive quotes, respond to customer inquiries, and help secure new business while maintaining alignment with company capabilities and objectives. Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Prepare detailed and reliable quotes for injection molded parts, including materials, labor, machine time, tooling, and overhead.
- Work closely with engineering, tooling, production, and sales to align technical assumptions and pricing strategy.
- Establish and validate cycle times, machine tonnage, cavitation, and process efficiencies to ensure realistic costing.
- Review drawings, models, and requirements to fully understand part design, tolerances, and production expectations.
- Review and validate Bills of Material (BOMs) to ensure accuracy in all quoting inputs.
- Work with Supply Chain Manager to source and validate material pricing, help with resin selection, and outside services.
- Support requotes and costing updates by updating pricing based on material changes, design revisions, or process improvements across existing programs.
- Execute and support the corporate quote build process, ensuring consistency and adherence to standard methodologies.
- Provide quoting support to all facilities, including assigned Brookings-based programs and assistance with large or complex quote packages.
- Identify risks, assumptions, and margin considerations to ensure quotes are both competitive and profitable.
- Participate in quoting audits to ensure compliance, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
- Streamline workflows, standardize best practices, and improve turnaround time while maintaining high accuracy.
- Standardize ballpark quoting processes to enable faster preliminary estimates.
- Support strategic customer quoting initiatives.
- Build, refine, and standardize costing tools and models to improve speed, consistency, and accuracy.
- Document processes and share knowledge to strengthen organizational capability.
- Ability to adapt to evolving technology and leverage digital tools, automation systems, and software applications to improve estimating accuracy and efficiency.
- Ability to analyze data and operational information to support informed decision-making, cost analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
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