RFQ and Cost Estimation Applications Engineer -- Assembly Automation

Job Description

Job Description

Shape winning proposals from complex assembly needs

You start your morning by opening a new RFQ. You scan part-assembly requirements, clarify the customer’s must-haves, and map out a quoting approach. By mid-morning, you’re sketching a simple assembly line layout and a visual machine concept to align with an Account Manager’s strategy. After lunch, you’re on the phone with vendors, validating component pricing. By day’s end, you’ve built a clear cost model—labor and purchased materials separated—and packaged it in the pricing format the customer requested.

What you’ll take on

• Estimate total job costs and assemble quotes informed by part-assembly needs, customer specifications, and application engineering experience.
• Process incoming RFQs, delivering quotations and pricing breakdowns to Account Managers.
• Accept quote lineups from Account Managers or directly from customers and translate them into structured proposals.
• Collaborate with Account Managers to define machine concepts and layouts that support accurate pricing.
• Source component pricing and secure vendor quotations to support estimates.
• Provide detailed pricing breakdowns for every quote, clearly separating labor and purchased material content.
• Produce customer-specific pricing formats when an RFQ requires it.
• Turn around any follow-up information requested by Account Managers.
• Maintain and regularly update a pricing reference guide for purchased components.

What you’ll need to be successful

• Strong technical understanding of assembly machinery processes and industry-preferred techniques.
• Domain knowledge in assembly equipment for powertrain, axle, and transmission assembly.
• Experience with AutoCAD and/or SolidWorks is preferred.
• Ability to create simple assembly line layouts and communicate visual machine concepts.
• Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites, both domestically and internationally.
• Valid driver’s license.

Impact you’ll have

Your diligence in costing and your fluency with assembly systems will help our team price competitively, respond quickly, and win with confidence—while giving customers transparent, defensible proposals.