Estimating Manager

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: Position Overview (could be About the role). Responsibilities: there are many bullet-like paragraphs. Requirements: Required Qualifications. Preferred Qualifications could be Qualifications? Actually they have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could combine into Requirements and Qualifications? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Skills). We need to decide which sections to include based on content. We have: - About the role: Position Overview paragraph(s). Also maybe STS Technical Services description? That's about company, not role. Could be omitted as not required? The instruction: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it)". So we can have About the role heading with content from Position Overview and maybe STS Technical Services description? The STS description is about the company, not role; but could be considered part of About the role? Might be okay but it's not specific to role. However we should preserve all substantive information; we can include it under About the role as it's about the employer. But we might also omit if not needed. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine company description into About the role. - Responsibilities: many bullet points grouped under headings: Estimating Team Leadership, Sales and Customer Request Management, Quoting and Cost Management, Project and Operations Coordination, Metrics and Continuous Improvement. We can combine all under Responsibilities as a list. - Requirements: Required Qualifications (list). Could be Requirements heading. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (list). Could be Qualifications heading. - Skills: maybe we can extract skills from Required Qualifications (strong organizational skills, communication, problem-solving, etc.) but they are already in Required Qualifications. Could create Skills section but might be redundant. The instruction: only include section when posting has real specific content for it. We have skills mentioned; we could put them under Skills. But we already have Required Qualifications which includes skills. Might be better to have Requirements (required qualifications) and Qualifications (preferred) and maybe Skills separate if we want. However to avoid thin sections, we could merge skills into Requirements or Qualifications. But the instruction list includes Skills as possible heading; we can include if we have content. We have explicit skills: Strong organizational skills, Strong written and verbal communication skills, Strong problem-solving abilities, Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines, Strong analytical skills, Experience developing and tracking performance metrics, Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Proficiency with standard business software. Those are skills. So we can create Skills section. - Benefits, Pay, Schedule: not mentioned. So omit those sections. Thus output HTML with headings:

About the role

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Responsibilities

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Requirements

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Qualifications

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Skills

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• . We must not repeat job title. Not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like Equal Opportunity Employer, Apply Today, etc. Also remove navigation/legal/EEO etc. So we strip those lines. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract content. About the role: Combine Position Overview paragraph and STS Technical Services description? The Position Overview: "The Estimating Manager will lead and develop a team of three or more Sales Estimators while working closely with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Operations, Manufacturing, Program Management and Project Management. This position oversees the quotation process from initial RFQ review through final pricing and project handoff." That's substantive. Also earlier paragraph: "STS Technical Services is hiring an Estimating Manager in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to lead the estimating and quoting function for a growing manufacturing organization operating in a fast-paced engineer-to-order environment. This role is responsible for managing estimating priorities, developing a team of Sales Estimators, improving quote accuracy and turnaround times, and serving as the primary connection between Sales and the estimating function. The ideal candidate brings experience in technical estimating, manufacturing, fabrication, construction or engineer-to-order project environments and is comfortable balancing leadership, cost analysis, technical documentation and cross-functional coordination." That's also about the role. So we can combine those into About the role. Also STS Technical Services description: "STS Technical Services is a Top 100 Staffing Firm that partners with leading aerospace, manufacturing, defense and industrial organizations across the United States. We connect skilled professionals with career opportunities where their experience can make an immediate impact." That's about company, but still substantive. Could include under About the role as extra. We'll include all that in About the role

  maybe multiple paragraphs. Responsibilities: Need to capture all bullet points under the headings: Estimating Team Leadership, Sales and Customer Request Management, Quoting and Cost Management, Project and Operations Coordination, Metrics and Continuous Improvement. We'll create a

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  • items for each bullet. Let's list them: From Estimating Team Leadership: - Lead, mentor and develop a team of three or more Sales Estimators - Establish departmental priorities based on business needs - Allocate estimating resources across active quoting opportunities - Review and approve complex quotations - Review costing assumptions and high-value project opportunities - Develop estimator training programs - Establish standard work procedures to improve consistency and effectiveness - Plan departmental workload - Assign quotes and monitor completion timelines Sales and Customer Request Management: - Serve as the primary liaison between the Sales and Estimating teams - Review incoming RFQs and customer requests - Determine project scope, priority, completeness and resource requirements - Distribute quoting opportunities across the estimating team and supporting functions - Work with Sales leadership to align customer expectations with manufacturing capabilities and lead times - Support Sales personnel with technical questions - Provide guidance on quote strategy and pricing Quoting and Cost Management: - Ensure estimates accurately account for labor costs - Validate material pricing assumptions - Account for freight and subcontractor costs - Incorporate manufacturing costs into quotations - Collaborate with Engineering, Purchasing, Operations, Manufacturing and Project Management to validate pricing and production assumptions - Review engineering drawings and blueprints - Review bills of material - Review specifications and project documentation - Evaluate manufacturing complexity - Assess resource requirements and project risks during the estimating process - Support continuous improvement of estimating tools - Improve pricing models and quote templates Project and Operations Coordination: - Partner with Program Managers and Project Managers regarding project budgets - Evaluate schedule impacts during quoting and project changes - Support change requests and customer revisions - Assist with transitioning awarded projects from quotation into execution - Coordinate across Sales, Engineering, Operations, Purchasing and Project Management - Identify quote-to-order process bottlenecks - Support improvements throughout the quote-to-order lifecycle Metrics and Continuous Improvement: - Develop and track estimating performance metrics - Monitor quote volume - Track quote turnaround time - Monitor win rates - Measure estimate accuracy - Track booked revenue - Monitor pipeline activity - Evaluate departmental workload balancing - Improve quote quality and responsiveness - Drive operational efficiency within the estimating function - Analyze historical estimating data and project outcomes - Use past performance to improve future estimating accuracy - Support forecasting and capacity planning - Contribute to strategic growth initiatives That's a lot; we will include all. Requirements: Required Qualifications list: - At least five years of experience in estimating, quoting, project management, program management, engineering, manufacturing, fabrication, construction or a related technical environment - At least two years of leadership, supervisory or team lead experience - Experience reviewing engineering drawings and blueprints - Experience working with bills of material - Experience reviewing technical product specifications - Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, fabrication, industrial equipment or engineer-to-order project environments - Strong organizational skills - Strong written and verbal communication skills - Strong problem-solving abilities - Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment - Strong analytical skills - Experience developing and tracking performance metrics - Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel - Proficiency with standard business software We'll put as
    • . Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications list: - Experience managing estimating, inside sales, project management or engineering support teams - Background in heavy manufacturing - Metal fabrication experience - Power systems experience - Industrial equipment experience - Experience with large custom assemblies - Familiarity with ERP systems - Familiarity with Smartsheet - Experience with project tracking software - Experience with estimating platforms - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Manufacturing Technology, Business or a related field - Experience supporting engineer-to-order manufacturing environments We'll put as
      • . Skills: Could extract from Required Qualifications but we already have them there. However we could still create Skills section with those skill items: Strong organizational skills, Strong written and verbal communication skills, Strong problem-solving abilities, Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment, Strong analytical skills, Experience developing and tracking performance metrics, Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Proficiency with standard business software. But that duplicates content from Requirements. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we put them in both Requirements and Skills, we duplicate. That's okay as long as we preserve. But better to avoid duplication? Not explicitly forbidden. However we might choose to not duplicate and instead put skills under Skills and keep Requirements focused on experience/education. But the Required Qualifications includes both experience and skills. We could split them: Requirements: experience/education; Skills: skills. That would preserve all info without duplication. Let's do that. Thus: Requirements (experience/education): - At least five years of experience in estimating, quoting, project management, program management, engineering, manufacturing, fabrication, construction or a related technical environment - At least two years of leadership, supervisory or team lead experience - Experience reviewing engineering drawings and blueprints - Experience working with bills of material - Experience reviewing technical product specifications - Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, fabrication, industrial equipment or engineer-to-order project environments - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Manufacturing Technology, Business or a related field (actually that's preferred; but we could keep under Requirements? It's in Preferred Qualifications. So not required. So we won't include degree under Requirements.) Thus Requirements list includes experience items only. Skills list includes: - Strong organizational skills - Strong written and verbal communication skills - Strong problem-solving abilities - Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment - Strong analytical skills - Experience developing and tracking performance metrics - Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel - Proficiency with standard business software But note "Experience developing and tracking performance metrics" is also a skill/experience; we can keep under Skills. Now we need to ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The STS Technical Services description we included under About the role. Also the initial hiring sentence etc. Let's craft About the role paragraph(s). We'll combine: "STS Technical Services is hiring an Estimating Manager in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to lead the estimating and quoting function for a growing manufacturing organization operating in a fast-paced engineer-to-order environment. This role is responsible for managing estimating priorities, developing a team of Sales Estimators, improving quote accuracy and turnaround times, and serving as the primary connection between Sales and the estimating function. The ideal candidate brings experience in technical estimating, manufacturing, fabrication, construction or engineer-to-order project environments and is comfortable balancing leadership, cost analysis, technical documentation and cross-functional coordination." Then Position Overview: "The Estimating Manager will lead and develop a team of three or more Sales Estimators while working closely with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Operations, Manufacturing, Program Management and Project Management. This position oversees the quotation process from initial RFQ review through final pricing and project handoff." Then company description: "STS Technical Services is a Top 100 Staffing Firm that partners with leading aerospace