Costing Estimator / Print Administration

Pronel Personnel; Pietermaritzburg; On-site; ZAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Pronel Personnel in KwaZulu-Natal seeks an experienced Estimator / Cost Planner for a printing industry role. Responsibilities include maintaining accurate costing, planning layouts to minimize cost, gathering quotations for outwork, and preparing customer quotes.

You will liaise with the factory manager, manage the estimating programme to keep rates and material costs up to date, process orders, and balance monthly purchasing with the general ledger.

Qualifications

• Experience in the printing industry preferred.
• Strong costing and budgeting skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining accuracy of times, rates, and costing of estimating programme.
• On receipt of quote request, plan a layout of how the job will be printed and finished to minimize the overall cost.
• Gathering quotations for any outwork and/or handwork.
• Liaising with factory manager on new and specific print requirements.
• Using the estimating programme, prepare a costing and quote for the customer.
• Managing the estimating programme: ensuring rates and paper prices on the system are up to date and that labour times are calculated accurately.
• Receive and process orders.
• Costing: Copy job information from master list to monthly sales schedule and enter all material, outwork, and commission costs onto the sales schedule.
• Monthly Duties: Manage all paper purchasing and outwork, stock levels of floor stock, prepare a stock valuation spreadsheet, balance sales paper purchases and commissions with general ledger.

Job description

Estimator / Cost Planner

Our client is looking for an experienced Estimator / Cost Planner to join their team. Preference will be given to candidates that have experience within the printing industry.

Duties include:

1. Maintaining accuracy of times, rates, and costing of estimating programme.
2. On receipt of quote request, plan a layout of how the job will be printed and finished to minimize the overall cost.
3. Gathering quotations for any outwork and/or handwork.
4. Liaising with factory manager on new and specific print requirements.
5. Using the estimating programme, prepare a costing and quote for the customer.
6. Managing the estimating programme: ensuring rates and paper prices on the system are up to date and that labour times are calculated accurately.
7. Receive and process orders.

Costing:

1. On completion of the job, check work ticket value to customer order value. Copy job information from master list to monthly sales schedule. Enter all material, outwork, and commission costs onto the sales schedule.

Monthly Duties:

1. Management of all paper purchasing and outwork.
2. Managing stock levels of floor stock.
3. Prepare a stock valuation spreadsheet using physical counts and invoice costs.
4. Balance sales paper purchases, outwork, and commissions recorded on monthly sales spreadsheets to the corresponding general ledger accounts.