Technical Estimator

Job Description:

What does a cell phone in your pocket, a spaceship, and an electric vehicle have in common?

Ellsworth Adhesives provides materials that help make each of those products!

Ellsworth Corporation, a global, industry leading distributor of specialty chemicals and equipment and adhesive manufacturer currently has a Technical Estimator opportunity. This role reports into Tape Case, LLC, an Ellsworth Corporation company, located in Elk Grove Village, IL and is a 100% on-site, in-office role.

Want to continue to grow your career? This is an exciting time to be a part of Ellsworth, come join our team! 

At TapeCase, we design, convert, manufacture, and distribute highly engineered adhesive tape products. We add value to the highly engineered products we sell by enhancing their delivered formats by offering expansive tape converting services to provide a custom tape solution for nearly any application. Learn more about us here.

The Technical Estimator analyzes project requirements, plans, and specifications to identify labor, material, equipment, and service needs. Develops cost estimates for projects based on work scope, specifications, and contract proposals using applicable estimating methodologies and tools. Manages the sales opportunity from technical sales to the initial production process (including understanding customer requirements, supporting design changes, quoting custom requests, purchasing/designing tooling, creating the BOM, and evaluating/improving the production process).   

Responsibilities 

• Collaborates with customers and company resources to recommend machinery and tools to use to manufacture products 
• Reads blueprints, understands the quality requirements and the feasibility of the project, and creates red-line drawings for any requested changes 
• Uses benchmark data, trends, prior estimates, and historical pricing schedules to generate detailed cost estimates that consist of itemized lists of expenses, labor hours, material quantities, and potential cost variations 
• Designs and purchases production tooling, creates BOM to dictate the raw material purchases, and creates routing to set-up the production processes 
• Collaborates with internal and external customers to provide project updates 
• Creates Excel-based quotes using customer requirements, material characteristics, the size of order, and other applicable factors

PERKS & BENEFITS 

As an industry leader, we offer a competitive wage, bonus plan, and a comprehensive benefit package which includes Health, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Flexible Spending, 401(k), Employee Assistance, Paid Time Off and Holidays, Wellness Program, Social Events, Community Involvement and much more! Click Here for a summary of Employee Benefits

Qualifications 

• 2+ years of experience with flexible materials and the non-metallic converting industry
• Experience in estimating or quoting preferred.    
• High School diploma or GED required, Associates/Technical degree preferred 
• Basic Excel knowledge of formulas required  
• Advanced knowledge of Excel formulas preferred 
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written (English) 
• Ability to effectively communicate with employees of varying education levels across multiple divisions 
• Familiarity with ISO 9001:2015 standards and requirements preferred 
• Strong basic math skills 
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints preferred 

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