Engineering Estimator
Bloomfield
Engineering Estimator
Full Time • Bloomfield
Responsive recruiter
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Salamander Designs is seeking a detail-oriented, execution-focused Engineering Estimator to support both new product development costing and customer quoting across the company's full product line. Salamander has been a market leader in the AV furniture and mounting solutions industry for 35 years, serving both B2B (commercial AV integrators, dealers, architects, and enterprise clients) and B2C (premium residential consumers) channels.
The Engineering Estimator works at the intersection of engineering and operations, responsible for developing accurate cost estimates across custom products, standard product lines, and manufacturing processes. This role requires close collaboration with the engineering team to translate design intent into detailed, competitive quotes and production cost analyses. The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable reading technical drawings and working within a fast-paced manufacturing environment with rapidly changing priorities and deadlines.
The Engineering Estimator works at the intersection of engineering and operations, responsible for developing accurate cost estimates across custom products, standard product lines, and manufacturing processes. This role requires close collaboration with the engineering team to translate design intent into detailed, competitive quotes and production cost analyses. The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable reading technical drawings and working within a fast-paced manufacturing environment with rapidly changing priorities and deadlines.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepare detailed cost estimates for custom product requests, standard products, and project-based bids
- Work directly with engineers to review designs, drawings, and BOMs to develop accurate material and labor cost models
- Analyze manufacturing processes to identify cost drivers and opportunities for efficiency
- Obtain and evaluate vendor and supplier quotes for materials, components, and outside services
- Improve and maintain estimating procedures, templates, pricing databases, and cost libraries
- Support the engineering team during the design phase to provide cost input and design-to-cost guidance
- Collaborate with production and purchasing to validate cost assumptions against actual manufacturing data
- Prepare clear, organized estimate summaries and quote documentation for internal and customer-facing use
- Track estimate accuracy over time and refine models based on actual production outcomes
- Assist with special projects and cost studies related to new product development and continuous improvement initiatives
Qualifications
Required:
- Experience in estimating, cost analysis, or a related role within a manufacturing environment
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, BOMs, and technical specifications
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and general spreadsheet-based cost modeling
- Solid understanding of manufacturing processes including materials, labor, and overhead costing
- High attention to detail with strong organizational and time management skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
Preferred:
- Experience with ERP systems; NetSuite familiarity a plus
- Drafting and/or 3D CAD (SolidWorks) experience or interest
- Background in furniture, cabinetry, sheet metal, or custom manufactured products
- Knowledge of Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles
Salamander Designs Means “Furniture Shaped By Your Needs”
For more than 35 years, Salamander Designs® has been designing innovative, specialized furniture systems that are shaped by your exact needs. Our premium technology furniture has been voted #1 in furniture by our Dealers for over 20 consecutive years. Our pieces are handcrafted in our solar powered USA factory in Connecticut.
Why Was the Company Started?
For more than 35 years, Salamander Designs® has been designing innovative, specialized furniture systems that are shaped by your exact needs. Our premium technology furniture has been voted #1 in furniture by our Dealers for over 20 consecutive years. Our pieces are handcrafted in our solar powered USA factory in Connecticut.
Why Was the Company Started?
Originally, Salamander grew out of an idea developed by Salvatore Carrabba in the early 1990s. During a search for furniture to support and display his home entertainment components, Sal discovered there was nothing in the marketplace that met his requirements. He was hoping to find furniture of good quality that could be configured to meet his current needs, but flexible enough to accommodate his entertainment system as it changed over time.
Sal decided to apply his background in sculpture and design to create some furniture on his own, and the Archetype System of shelving was born. The positive response to his designs from family and friends convinced him that others might be interested in his designs as well. So, in 1992 Sal founded Salamander Designs, Ltd. Since then it has become a leader in the consumer electronics furniture marketplace, offering advanced flexible solutions for audio and video enthusiasts.
Sal decided to apply his background in sculpture and design to create some furniture on his own, and the Archetype System of shelving was born. The positive response to his designs from family and friends convinced him that others might be interested in his designs as well. So, in 1992 Sal founded Salamander Designs, Ltd. Since then it has become a leader in the consumer electronics furniture marketplace, offering advanced flexible solutions for audio and video enthusiasts.
HOW WE OPERATE
We at Salamander are heavily process driven and strive for Continuous Improvement in everything that we do. Quality control is a key focus for our company and we measure our performance frequently.
MADE TO ORDER
Our facility is designed for materials and production to flow through an efficient process. Salamander manages using “Lean Manufacturing” principles and “pull manufacturing” techniques. This process allows us to Build-to-order thereby allowing us to carry virtually no finished goods stock. The concept is for the customer to “pull” the product through production with his order…they ask for it and we build it.
OUR FACILITY
Salamander is located in Bloomfield, Connecticut and occupies a modern 85,000 SF facility just north of Hartford and 2 hours from Boston and New York City.
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