Cost Estimator

Awl-Techniek B.V.; Harderwijk; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is hiring a Cost Estimator located in Harderwijk, Netherlands. The successful candidate will translate technical documentation and production data into accurate cost calculations. Responsibilities include analysing bills of materials, calculating costs per component, preparing detailed quotations, and ensuring data accuracy. This role is vital for linking design and realization, ensuring well-founded decision-making in sales and engineering, making it an attractive opportunity in a dynamic international environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyse bills of materials (BOM), technical drawings and production information.
• Calculate material costs, machining hours and assembly times per component.
• Prepare detailed cost price calculations for machines and installations.
• Check and validate data to ensure a consistent and reliable quotation structure.
• Ensure accuracy and uniformity across all calculations.
• Align with engineering and production on technical assumptions and cost-related principles.

Job description

Overview

As a Cost Estimator within the Business Unit General Industry, you will work on challenging, innovative projects in an international and dynamic environment. You play a key role in preparing competitive quotations for high-end manufacturing solutions – ranging from handling systems to complex, fully automated production lines.

You translate technical documentation, bills of materials and production data into accurate cost price calculations. You ensure that every component of a machine or system is correctly converted into a reliable cost figure. Working closely with Sales, Engineering and Production, you make sure that quotations are technically sound and financially well substantiated.

Responsibilities

• Analyse bills of materials (BOM), technical drawings and production information;
• Calculate material costs, machining hours and assembly times per component;
• Prepare detailed cost price calculations for machines and installations;
• Check and validate data to ensure a consistent and reliable quotation structure;
• Ensure accuracy and uniformity across all calculations;
• Align with engineering and production on technical assumptions and cost-related principles.

Why this role is attractive

You work close to both technology and the quotation process within an international and dynamic environment. This gives you direct insight into how complex technical concepts are translated into concrete costs and competitive quotations for high-end manufacturing solutions – from handling systems to fully automated production lines.

As such, you are a vital link between design and realisation, directly contributing to well-founded decision-making within Sales and Engineering.