Manufacturing Product Estimator – Modular MEP Systems

Harris Company; Evansville (IN); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401K with company match

Vacation time

Sick time

Paid holidays

Job summary

Harris Company seeks a Manufacturing Product Estimator to build accurate pricing for modular mechanical systems like skids, racks, and packaged units. You will translate drawings into buildable estimates, validating labor and methods with engineering and shop leadership to ensure feasibility and profitability.

You’ll drive consistency via templates and unit rates, collaborating with sales and operations. Travel up to 10% is required as projects span multiple regional locations.

Qualifications

• Experience estimating manufactured or fabricated products.
• Strong understanding of shop labor, BOM-based costing, and overhead.
• Ability to read drawings and turn them into clear, buildable estimates.
• Comfortable working across sales, engineering, and operations.
• Familiarity with DFMA principles and product‑based estimating.
• Practical, detail-oriented mindset focused on real outcomes.
• Must be able to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Develop cost estimates for modular systems using drawings, BOMs, and product definitions.
• Build pricing that supports budgets and proposals with clear scope and assumptions.
• Partner with engineering and shop to validate labor, fabrication methods, and manufacturability.
• Create more consistency through templates, unit rates, and repeatable pricing approaches.
• Incorporate feedback from actual production to improve estimate accuracy over time.

Skills

Manufactured products estimating

Shop labor understanding

BOM-based costing

Reading drawings

Cross-functional collaboration

DFMA principles

Attention to details

Travel willingness

Job description

The Purpose of Your Role as a Manufacturing Product Estimator

You’ll be responsible for building accurate, reliable pricing for manufactured products. This role focuses on modular mechanical systems like skids, racks, and packaged units, turning drawings and product definitions into real, executable costs.

Your work helps the business compete in external markets while making sure what’s sold can actually be built in the shop. This is manufacturing-focused estimating, centered on materials, labor, and overhead rather than full project scope.

What You’ll Be Part Of

You’ll work closely with sales, engineering, and shop leadership to connect product design with real-world cost and production.

• Develop cost estimates for modular systems using drawings, BOMs, and product definitions
• Build pricing that supports budgetary through firm proposals, including clear scope and assumptions
• Partner with engineering and the shop to validate labor, fabrication methods, and manufacturability
• Help create more consistency through templates, unit rates, and repeatable pricing approaches
• Use feedback from actual production to improve estimate accuracy over time

You’ll also be part of conversations around make versus buy, standard versus custom, and how to price for different volumes as the business grows.

What We’re Looking For in You

• Experience estimating manufactured or fabricated products
• Strong understanding of shop labor, BOM-based costing, and overhead
• Ability to read drawings and turn them into clear, buildable estimates
• Comfortable working across sales, engineering, and operations
• Familiarity with DFMA principles and product‑based estimating
• Practical, detail-oriented mindset focused on real outcomes
• Must be able to travel up to 10%

This role is for someone who wants their numbers to mean something. Someone who understands that a good estimate isn’t just accurate on paper, it works in the shop too.

As one of the country's leading mechanical contractors, Harris offers the stability, resources, and opportunities of a national company along with the team culture, creative spirit, and customer loyalty of a local business. If you thrive on variety and enjoy new challenges, we want to meet you. From stadiums to manufacturing facilities, power plants to hospitals, and concert halls to classrooms, we handle projects of all sizes and complexity across multiple regional locations throughout the country.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401K with company match
• Vacation time, sick time, and paid holidays

The actual salary offer will vary by candidate based on a wide range of factors such as specific skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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