Senior Quote Specialist - Technical Focus

Nortech Systems, Inc.; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Outstanding benefits package including

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Training and advancement opportunities

Job summary

Nortech Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Quote Specialist to translate complex technical data into accurate, competitive customer quotes. You will partner with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and sales to manage large, multi-faceted projects.

The role requires strong cost-analysis, documentation, and process improvement skills in a fast-paced environment. The position is hybrid, offering a comprehensive benefits package and career development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering, or related area, or five years’ experience coordinating RFQ cost estimates in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Three years’ experience reading product specifications and engineering drawings, including customer RFQs and BOMs.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional reviews with sales, engineering, supply chain, production, and finance teams.
• Proficient use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook for documenting quotes and analyses.

Responsibilities

• Create bill of materials for quotes with ERP system from customer documentation, focusing on large and complex projects.
• Coordinate and gather quote inputs including scope, design, labor, materials, and other cost estimates.
• Review technical documentation with engineering to ensure accurate capture of costs and specs.
• Lead cross-functional teams to determine material needs and negotiate supplier estimates.
• Estimate production requirements including setup and labor costs.
• Assess manufacturing processes, methods, and labor requirements.
• Analyze production capacity and requirements for quotes.
• Review ECNs to determine re-quote needs and impact.
• Ensure estimation inputs align with RFQs and Nortech standards.

Skills

Strong technical aptitude

Problem solving

Continuous improvement

Interpreting drawings/specs/BOMs

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering, or related area

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Quote Specialist to join our highly skilled, dynamic team.

Nortech Systems is a leading provider of engineering and manufacturing solutions for complex electromedical and electromechanical products. We proudly serve mission critical markets, including medical imaging, medical devices, industrial, and aerospace & defense. Nortech delivers exceptional value by solving complex challenges through innovative, customized engineering, design, manufacturing, and data management solutions. Our expertise is in complex cable, PCBA and integrated higher level assemblies.

Our team is focused on delivering lifesaving products from medical devices which detect and treat cancer to mission-critical components for airplanes and submarines. Nortech’s customers include some of the biggest names in industry, medical devices and aerospace and defense. We take pride in our team’s role in making products that make a difference.

We're seeking a detail-oriented and technically minded SR Quote Specialist who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate can translate complex technical information into accurate and competitive customer quotes while partnering closely with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and sales teams. This individual is highly organized, analytical, and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement. A strong understanding of manufacturing processes, product costing, and technical documentation is preferred, along with the ability to evaluate existing procedures and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and overall quote performance.

This role is hybrid.

What Nortech Offers

• Competitive compensation
• Outstanding benefits package including medical, dental and vision insurance for employee & family, including a 100% company-paid base medical plan for employees; 401k with company match; tuition reimbursement and PTO
• A diverse and inclusive workplace fostering responsible social engagement
• Training and opportunity for advancement

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong technical aptitude and ability to work closely with engineering teams.
• Proven problem solving and decision making abilities.
• Continuous improvement and results oriented mindset.
• Experience interpreting drawings, specifications, BOMs, and manufacturing requirements.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across multiple functions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create bill of material for quotes with ERP system from customer documentation, focusing on large and complex projects as assigned.
• Guide, coordinate, and gather quote inputs including project scope, engineering design, manufacturing and administrative labor, materials, equipment, and other cost estimates.
• Review technical documentation and coordinate with engineering and other subject matter experts to ensure accurate capture of product, components, parts, labor, and other factors.
• Lead team efforts, coordinating with Supply Chain, Engineering, and Production team members to determine material needs, source and negotiate supplier estimates with the objective to achieve high quality materials, parts, and components at the lowest initial total cost.
• Lead team efforts, coordinating with Engineering and Production team members to evaluate and estimate production requirements including manufacturing set-up and production labor costs.
• Assess manufacturing processes, production methods, and labor requirements.
• Analyze production requirements and capacity considerations.
• Evaluate engineering change notices (ECN) and determine re-quote requirements.
• Review all estimation inputs against customer RFQs to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to Nortech’s standards.
• Review or oversee review of actual manufacturing cost reports and/or conduct quote reviews on active assemblies to identify trends and areas for quote estimation process improvement.
• Present ideas orally and/or in writing.
• Communicate and ensure Company quote process, documentation, version control, pricing standards and protocols are followed.
• Keep supervisor informed about project status, workload, concerns, questions, and progress.
• Demonstrate and support Nortech’s Mission, Core Values, policies and procedures at all times.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Education & Background:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering, or related area, or five years’ experience coordinating customer RFQ cost estimates (or closely related work) in a complex or custom manufacturing environment.
• Three years of experience: Reading product specification documents and basic engineering drawings including customer RFQs, electro-mechanical engineering product design, production schematics, financials, bill of materials, and other technical inputs.
• Acting as a liaison between sales, engineering, supply chain, production, and/or finance teams to coordinate review and evaluation of customer RFQs, document product manufacturing set-up requirements, time and cost estimates, and evaluate production fit and capacity.
• Using sales support systems to track, enter, and manage product documentation and sales quote data.
• Professional experience coordinating and communicating complex technical and product pricing topics across multi-functional teams.
• Experience using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and/or similar software collaboration tools at a proficient level.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering, or related area with five years’ experience as described above.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Certain positions at Nortech require access to information, or technology that is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and other US government security regulations. These laws do not permit access rights to non-US citizens, or to other unauthorized individuals. Therefore, presently, all applicants must be US Citizens, or US Permanent Residents (“green card holders”), and/or otherwise comply with ITAR requirements for access rights, to be considered for a position.