Quote Analyst

Job Purpose

Working in the machining plant to develop, analyze, create routing and evaluate product cost information within established guidelines. Interfaces with manufacturing engineering, design engineering, procurement, sales and marketing to prepare product cost estimation analysis for the purposes of price quotation, new product design, internal cost information requests and cost reductions/increases.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities

• Works on new or expanded business opportunities
• Analyzes BOMs to gain a thorough understanding of the project
• Uses established criteria to determine which supplier to use
• Sends RFQs to established supply base to gather quotation information to present to customer
• Develops and maintains relationships with company vendors and contractors
• Manages bids from vendors and suppliers
• Resolves part number issues with suppliers and gathers other relevant information to complete quote
• Uses bid data to prepare detailed material estimates and cost estimates for the product
• Presents prepared estimates to management and other stakeholders
• Compiles and records actual costs
• Issues between sales and customer are normally escalated to lead or manager

Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
• The ideal candidate will have 2 years of pricing/quoting experience, or Front End Engineering or Planning experience
• Up to 2 of the 5 required years experience in machining manufacturing parts estimation preferred
• Strong Excel skills to include math formulas and VLOOKUPs
• Experience with Excel created Bills of Materials and spreadsheets
• Experience qualifying drawing packages submitted for estimation
• Knowledge with prints of drawings and organization of quotation packages
• Prior experience reviewing all cost estimated packages for completeness & accuracy preferred
• Experience with Oracle a plus
• Able to work within deadlines and without direct supervision

Physical Demands

Required to sit for extended periods in an office environment; substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers; repetitive motion. Required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, extensive reading. Occasionally exerts up to 10 pounds of force and/or negligible amount of force to lift, carry, push and pull or otherwise move objects

Physical Demands

This is an ITAR facility and applicant must be a US Citizen or a lawful permanent resident.

About the Role

Sanmina Energy (Houston) provides: Product Engineering with an emphasis on energy including very complex electro-mechanical systems; Assembly & Test for full electromechanical assemblies across multiple industries with capability to produce new and legacy [high temperature] printed circuit board assemblies; and Precision Machining with capabilities across the full material spectrum.