Estimating Engineer

Location

Dunstable, Bedfordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

We, at Leggett & Platt Inc., are searching for an Estimating Engineer within our Engineering team to help support our Aerospace   business. At L&P Aerospace, we specialize in creating complex tube and duct assemblies using high-performance materials capable of withstanding extreme pressure, temperature, and chemical interactions. How high are our quality standards, you ask? So much so, that we have products on-board the Space Launch System with NASA, as well as the F-15 and F-35 fighter jets! If you join our team, your work will ensure families across the world fly a little safer, wherever their travels may take them.

As an Estimating Engineering you will manage all estimating requests from external sales and internal requests. This role will also be the business lead and process owner for the repairs business. Able to manage and improve both processes through effective metric application.

Core Responsibilities

• Creates and manages estimates requests from external sales and internal request (NPI, Repairs etc) for all related costs

• Audits estimating process to constantly improve process to reduce operational and financial errors

• Works with other business functions function to optimise process

• Uses cost data to assess most cost effective methods/design of products

• Able to work with customer to resolve more complex/ambiguous RFQs

• Process owner for Repairs business

• Supports processing of customer returns

• Assesses repairs and returns requests and provides a rework solution

• Manages and improves all process KPIs through improving tools and documentation

• Other responsibilities as assigned

Experience:

• Experience completing estimates

• Experience owning processes and KPIs

• Able to assess models and drawings through CAD

• Able to create manufacturing sequences of multiple level assemblies

• Good organizational skills and the ability to prioritize with changing situations

• Experience performing make vs buy assessments using cost data

• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills to drive tasks to completion

• Strong risk assessment skills

• Experience using MRP systems

• Good financial and commercial skills desirable

Education: 

Degree in an engineering/science discipline or equivalent combination of relevant education and work experience that will allow successful performance of job expectation.

What to Do Next

Now that you’ve had a chance to learn more about us, what are you waiting for! Apply today and allow us the opportunity to learn more about you and the value you can bring to our team. Once you apply, be sure to create a profile, and sign up for job alerts, so you can be the first to know when new opportunities become available. If you require assistance completing an application, please contact our team at [email protected]

Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

Our Commitment to You

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture is inclusive and that our processes and practices promote equity for all. Leggett & Platt is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veteran status, and more. Join us!

We welcome and encourage applications if you meet the minimum qualifications. Even if you do not meet the preferred qualifications, we’d love the opportunity to consider you.

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