Estimator

Description:

Built on Experience. Built for Skill. Built for You.

Keel was formed by bringing together three industry leaders combining generations of hands-on expertise in steel fabrication, shipbuilding, aerospace, and defense manufacturing.

That means when you join Keel, you’re joining a team backed by decades of proven craftsmanship and real-world results.

We build ships, defense systems, aerospace components, and heavy steel structures that serve critical missions — and we do it with pride.

Your Mission:

Prepares the estimated costs to process laser cut parts, forming and fabrication so that sales and management can make business decisions on what the product should be sold for as well as evaluate capacity and capital constraints when the business is awarded.

Explore the Depth of the Role:

• Evaluate product to be cost assessed with sales, engineering, and design for feasibility to process parts and how the product is to be quoted to the customer.
• Work with Draftsmen, AutoCad, JobBoss, Solidworks, Microsoft Excel and PDF editors (ex. Bluebeam or Foxit) to develop cost estimates.
• Will assume a Project Lead role in the department.
• Work is generally independent and contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project.
• Responsible for performing all technical functions, as well as providing technical direction and support in projects. Responsible for ensuring all tasks in estimating projects are complete and meet schedule, and/or quote delivery date(s).
• Moderate involvement in department development.
• Calculatesmaterial weights and usages utilizing metric conversions for all required processes.
• Determines and develops packaging and shipping costs.
• Maintain on going costs for formulations and correlates data in the estimating system.
• Data entry from quotes into the estimating system (ex. JobBOSS or Merrill Quotation or similar) setting up Bill of Materials (BOMs) and work instructions (i.e. routers).
• Work preparing costs and “what-if cost” evaluations.
• Continuously evaluating cost estimating data and work sheet forms and make necessary changes as required. Effectively use date to continuously improve estimates.
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

Requirements:

Mission Readiness:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related major from a four-year college or university; and five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of six years of education and experience.
• 4+ years related working experience required in estimating steel fabrication work
• Strong leadership skills.