Costing Engineer

AP Management Consultants; Chengalpattu; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

AP Management Consultants is seeking a cost estimating professional to support RFQ responses for sheet metal fabrication. The role involves analyzing customer drawings, interpreting fabrication sequences, and preparing structured BOMs and cost estimates across welding, bending, coating, and finishing steps.

You will coordinate with procurement, design, production and sales to ensure accurate quotations, track material utilization and scrap, and validate assumptions with stakeholders before

Qualifications

• Diploma or Bachelor's degree in mechanical/production/manufacturing engineering.
• 3–8 years in costing/estimation in sheet metal or fabrication.
• Ability to read PDFs, fabrication drawings, and customer specs.
• Knowledge of BOM preparation, nesting, material utilization, scrap calculation.
• Familiar with fabrication processes like laser cutting, bending, welding, coating, packing.
• Strong commercial sense to prepare competitive quotations.
• Proficient in Excel and costing formats; ERP and CAD/DXF familiarity preferred.
• Excellent coordination with procurement, design, production, and sales.

Responsibilities

• Study customer PDF drawings, specifications, part dimensions, tolerances, material grades, and assembly requirements.
• Interpret fabrication sequence and identify in-house, purchased, or subcontracted components.
• Highlight missing inputs or commercial gaps before finalizing the estimate.
• BOM development and coordination.
• Create structured BOMs for assemblies and sub-assemblies.
• Segregate BOMs into categories: raw material, laser cut parts, bent parts, welded assemblies, bought-out components, standard hardware, coating items, packing materials.
• Release bought-out item lists to procurement for costing and lead-time confirmation.
• Release laser cutting part lists to design for DXF generation and nesting support.

Skills

Drawings interpretation

BOM preparation

Excel

ERP systems

CAD/DXF workflow

Quotation preparation

Education

Diploma or Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CAD/CAM software

ERP software

Job description

Role & responsibilities

RFQ and drawing analysis

• Study customer PDF drawings, specifications, part dimensions, tolerances, material grades, and assembly requirements.
• Interpret fabrication sequence and identify whether components are manufactured in-house, purchased, or subcontracted.
• Highlight missing technical inputs or commercial gaps before finalizing the estimate.
• BOM development and coordination
• Create structured BOMs for assemblies and sub-assemblies.
• Segregate BOMs into categories such as raw material, laser cut parts, bent parts, welded assemblies, bought-out components, standard hardware, coating items, and packing materials.
• Release bought-out item lists to procurement for supplier costing and lead-time confirmation.
• Release laser cutting part lists to design for DXF generation and nesting support.

Cost estimation

• Estimate raw material consumption based on nesting output, utilization ratio, and expected scrap percentage.
• Prepare routing-based or activity-based cost estimates for fabrication and finishing processes.
• Define operation-wise costing for welding, bending, grinding, coating, assembly, inspection, packing, and dispatch preparation.
• Include external services, consumables, tooling implications, and logistics assumptions where applicable.
• Validate costing assumptions with production and relevant internal stakeholders before quotation submission.

Skills and qualifications

• Diploma or Bachelor& degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
• 3-8 years of experience in costing, estimation, production engineering, or quotation preparation in a sheet metal, fabrication, or general manufacturing environment.
• Strong ability to read PDF drawings, fabrication drawings, and customer specifications.
• Good knowledge of BOM preparation, manufacturing processes, nesting concepts, raw material utilization, and scrap calculation.
• Working knowledge of fabrication processes such as laser cutting, bending, welding, grinding, coating, and packing.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to prepare competitive and technically correct quotations.
• Proficiency in Excel and costing formats; familiarity with ERP systems and CAD/DXF workflow is preferred.
• Good coordination and communication skills to work with procurement, design, production, and sales teams.

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