Estimating at Brightpath Associates Des Plaines, Illinois

Estimating Manager

The Estimating Manager leads our quoting process from RFQ intake through pricing approval and handoff to Engineering. It's a fast-paced, high-mix environment where speed, accuracy, and good prioritization directly impact our ability to win business.

Day to day, you will:

• Manage and prioritize a busy queue of RFQs
• Review and approve quotes before they go to customers
• Assign and balance workload across the estimating team
• Partner with Sales, Engineering, Production, and Purchasing to keep work moving
• Mentor and develop estimators
• Help improve our estimating tools and processes

What We're Looking For:

• Hands-on estimating experience in precision metal fabrication or similar manufacturing
• Prior supervisory or leadership experience
• Strong prioritization and decision-making skills, especially with incomplete or changing information
• Comfortable working cross-functionally
• Strong math, analytical, computer, and communication skills
• Degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering is a plus, but not required

The right person treats estimating as a business function, accurate enough to protect margin, fast enough to win the work.

Physical Requirements:

• Exert up to 25 pounds of force occasionally

• Ability to communicate with others and accommodation as required to listen to equipment

• Accommodation as required for reading documents, prints, quality instruments, and computer screens

Work Conditions:

Typical metal manufacturing environment with exposure to powder coat paint facility. Both active and sedentary work, which may involve repetitive motions of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers, walking, standing, bending and lifting.

Benefits Programs:

• Group Medical, Dental and Vision insurance available at 31st day of full-time employment.

• Company-provided Term Life Insurance on the 1st of the month following or coinciding 90 days of employment.

• Participation in our 401(k) program on the 1st of the month following or coinciding 30 days if employment, which includes fully vested company matching.

• Short and Long Term Disability program after 1st year of employment.

Paid Time Off:

• Company Paid Holidays.

• IL Paid Leave for All Workers Act (PLA).

Vacation Time is based on employment anniversary and will be given per the following schedule: 1 week after 6 months, 1 week after 1 year, 2 weeks after 2 years, 3 weeks after 5 years.