Sales Engineer - Metal Manufacturing

Sales Engineer

We are a well-established and continually growing organization in the Metal Manufacturing Industry seeking an experienced, detail-oriented Sales Engineer to support customer quoting, cost estimating, and technical sales efforts at our facility in St. Paul (relocation assistance will be provided). The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of estimating experience in manufacturing, will be skilled in determining material and labor requirements, preparing itemized lists, computing cost factors, and preparing estimates for management purposes.

Responsibilities:

• Determine material and labor requirements and prepare detailed itemized lists based on customer RFQs.
• Compute cost factors and prepare comprehensive estimates used for management purposes, preparing bids, selecting vendors or subcontractors, and determining cost effectiveness.
• Ensure strict adherence to all relevant ISO and AS procedures specific to the job function.
• Develop and implement cost control procedures, documents, and tools to support and enhance project budget management.
• Collect and coordinate procurement and other cost information used to develop cost forecasting, cost control strategies, and project risk analysis.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering or a related field. (preferred).
• 2 - 4 years of experience in estimating, preferably within a manufacturing environment.
• JobBOSS software experience preferred.

This is a direct hire, long term career opportunity, the starting base pay range is $75K-$90K (doe) plus benefits and incentives. If you enjoy combining technical knowledge with customer interaction and problem-solving, we'd love to hear from you.