Snr/Jnr Technical Estimator

1 month ago


CapeTown, South Africa CK Africa Talent Full time

This role will be responsible for gathering pricing and associated information that will assist in decision making, pricing schedules, assisting in audits, tracking stock movements, gathering quotes, developing costing estimates and successions and ad hoc duties to assist the Procurement Manager and team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintain updated product costing on shared drive.
  • Accurately maintain database of costs for manufacturing raw materials.
  • Calculations of spreadsheets when new, updated and improved manufacturing processes are established.
  • Compilation and population of all product Bill of Materials.
  • BOM costs to be within 5% of actual costs at all times.
  • Maintaining time and motion studies representative of actual manufacturing process timelines, including monitoring and evaluation thereof.
  • Preparation and sending of quotes on the same day as requested.
  • Collaboration with engineering, clients, contractors, department seniors.
  • Collection of pricing information from suppliers and sub-contractors.
  • Evaluation of project costs effectiveness or profitability.
  • Monitoring of project stages to ensure costs are in-line with product estimate and forecast.
  • Conduct tri-annual product cost variance analysis.
  • Collaboration with sales team to ensure price efficacy and manage calculation of selling prices as per agreed mark-up.
  • Monthly costing report on all products to be issued to Procurement Manager for approval.
  • Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.

Minimal Requirements:

  • MATRIC Certificate or equivalent good marks & passion for mathematics.
  • MUST Have a Mechanical Engineering Qualification (Preferably BTech Mechanical).
  • MUST be able to read technical drawings.
  • +/- 3 years of experience in costings.
  • Excel & MS Word.
  • Bilingual.


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