Costing Estimator Specialist

7 days ago


Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Pronel Personnel Full time
Estimator / Cost Planner

Pronel Personnel is seeking a skilled Estimator / Cost Planner to take on a new challenge. As an experienced professional, you will be responsible for managing the estimating programme, ensuring accuracy and up-to-date rates and paper prices. Your expertise in planning layouts to minimize costs and gathering quotations for outwork and handwork will be invaluable.

Duties include:

  1. Maintaining accurate times, rates, and costing of the estimating programme.
  2. On receipt of quote requests, plan a layout to minimize overall costs.
  3. Gathering quotations for any outwork and/or handwork required.
  4. Liaising with factory managers on new and specific print requirements.
  5. Preparing costings and quotes for customers using the estimating programme.
  6. Managing the estimating programme: ensuring rates and paper prices are up to date and labour times are calculated accurately.
  7. Receiving and processing orders.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Checking work ticket values against customer order values.
  2. Copying job information from the master list to the monthly sales schedule.
  3. Entering material, outwork, and commission costs onto the sales schedule.

Monthly Duties:

  1. Managing all paper purchasing and outwork.
  2. Monitoring stock levels of floor stock.
  3. Preparation of a stock valuation spreadsheet using physical counts and invoice costs.
  4. Balancing sales paper purchases, outwork, and commissions recorded on monthly sales spreadsheets to the corresponding general ledger accounts.


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