Senior Manufacturing Estimator

Perfecto Tool & Engineering Inc.; Anderson (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Perfecto Tool and Engineering Co., Inc. is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Estimator who understands how parts are made and can translate drawings into accurate, competitive estimates.

This role goes beyond desk pricing and requires hands-on input on manufacturability, lead times, and cost drivers. You will partner with Sales, Engineering, and Operations to validate methods, develop routings and labor estimates, and document assumptions and risks.

Qualifications

• Hands-on or technical experience in high-mix, low-volume fabrication.
• Ability to translate requirements into manufacturability and cost.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing methods and materials.
• Commercial judgment balancing value and risk.
• Clear communication with Sales, Engineering, Operations, customers, and suppliers.
• Ability to manage multiple estimates and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Review customer drawings and specs to establish scope and manufacturability.
• Develop routings, labor estimates, material needs, and other cost inputs.
• Identify cost drivers, technical risks, missing information, and potential failure points before quoting.
• Document assumptions, exclusions, risks, and open questions for commercial/manufacturing teams.
• Partner with Sales, Engineering, and Operations to validate methods, capacity, lead times, and execution risk.
• Support quote reviews and pricing decisions.
• Improve estimating tools and share manufacturing knowledge across the organization.

Skills

Machining experience

Tooling knowledge

Commercial judgment

Estimating

Communication skills

Education

Engineering degree helpful

Job description

Description

Senior Manufacturing Estimator

Help Perfecto Decide What Work We Win

Perfecto Tool and Engineering Co., Inc. is growing, adding customers and capabilities while investing in a new building, our team, technology, processes, and systems. We are looking for an experienced manufacturing professional who understands how work is actually made and can turn that knowledge into accurate, competitive, and commercially sound estimates.

This is not a desk-only quoting role. You will use practical machining and tooling experience to evaluate opportunities, identify risk, develop manufacturing assumptions, and help Perfecto decide what work to pursue and how to win it. You may already be a senior estimator, or an applications engineer, manufacturing engineer, process engineer, or experienced toolmaker moving toward broader quoting and commercial responsibility.

Mission of the Position

The Senior Manufacturing Estimator converts customer requirements into accurate, timely, and competitive manufacturing estimates. Working closely with Sales, Engineering, and Operations, you will determine how Perfecto could manufacture the work, document assumptions and risks, and build estimates grounded in real shop capabilities. Success means better quote quality, faster turnaround, less avoidable estimating risk, and winning work that supports customer value and profitable growth.

What You Will Own

• Review customer drawings, specifications, models, and supporting information to establish scope and manufacturability.
• Develop manufacturing approaches, routings, labor estimates, material requirements, outside-service needs, and other cost inputs.
• Identify cost drivers, technical risks, missing information, and potential failure points before quoting.
• Document assumptions, exclusions, risks, and open questions so commercial and manufacturing teams understand each estimate.
• Partner with Sales on proposals and customer requirements, and with Engineering and Operations to validate methods, capacity assumptions, lead times, and execution risk.
• Support quote reviews and disciplined pursue, no-pursue, and pricing decisions.
• Compare estimated assumptions with actual results, improve estimating tools and standard work, and share manufacturing knowledge across the organization.

The Experience We Are Looking For

• Substantial hands‑on or technical experience in high‑mix, low‑volume precision machining, tooling, or comparable custom manufacturing. Deep machining and tooling knowledge is essential.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing methods, materials, setups, routings, labor drivers, outside processes, and manufacturing risk.
• Ability to translate drawings and technical requirements into a practical manufacturing plan and cost estimate.
• Commercial judgment that balances accuracy, competitiveness, risk, customer value, and profitability.
• Clear communication with Sales, Engineering, Operations, customers, and suppliers
• Confidence asking questions and challenging weak assumptions.
• Ability to manage multiple estimates and deadlines without losing important details.

Formal estimating experience is preferred, not an absolute requirement. We welcome senior manufacturing estimators, applications engineers, manufacturing engineers, process engineers, cost or quoting engineers, and experienced toolmakers with quoting responsibility. Perfecto will also consider a manufacturing expert with deep machining and tooling knowledge, strong judgment, commercial aptitude, and the ability to learn and own a disciplined estimating process.

An associate or bachelor’s degree in machining, engineering, manufacturing, or a related discipline is helpful but not required when equivalent manufacturing experience demonstrates the ability to succeed.

What Success Looks Like

• Quotes delivered within agreed turnaround times, with clear, supportable manufacturing assumptions.
• Important cost drivers and technical risks identified before submission, with assumptions, exclusions, and open questions documented.
• Trust earned through responsiveness, technical credibility, and commercial judgment.
• Estimate quality improved through feedback from actual manufacturing results.
• Stronger estimating methods and work won that fits Perfecto’s capabilities, customers, and growth strategy.

Why Join Perfecto

You will influence more than the price on a quote: what work we pursue, how we manufacture it, what risks we accept, and where we build capability. Perfecto’s investment in our team development, manufacturing environment, technology, and estimating methods offers meaningful technical ownership, access to manufacturing leadership, and participation in building a stronger commercial and operational system. As Perfecto grows, this role offers a visible path toward broader commercial or operational leadership.

Perfecto Core Purpose

We serve our partners by manufacturing innovative solutions with precision craftsmanship.

Perfecto Core Values

Customer Experience
Deliver our passion through service
Our passion is to create solutions for our customers. The quality of our work and our unparalleled service exceed expectations of our customers to build lifelong trust in our relationships with partners. Our customers are an extension of our team through creative collaboration and a relentless pursuit to deliver solutions. Together we create the Perfecto Experience.?

Integrity
Driven by Principles
We are committed to our principles. This is illustrated by our sincere, honest, and respectful communication. Through quality of craftsmanship in the products we create, we are wholly accountable for every decision made and action performed at Perfecto.?

Learning
Think, Act, Reflect (TAR): Make it Stick
At Perfecto, we take pride in learning. We do so through a process known as TAR (Think, Act, Reflect). We embrace technology to learn new ways to improve ourselves and the products we create. We seek to share our knowledge and experiences with others. We take time to choose the appropriate solution and reflect upon results; TAR we make learning stick!?

Stewardship
Shepherd the legacy
We did not breathe life into Perfecto; with our care, Perfecto will be here after our limited time has passed. While honoring those who mentored and inspired us, we know Perfecto is greater than any individual. As good stewards, we care wisely for each other and our resources. We strengthen the Perfecto family through support, listening, and teaching.?