Print and Packaging Estimator

Job Description

Job Description

Are you looking for a career that challenges you and gives you the opportunity to learn and grow every day?

Oliver Inc. is hiring! Our growing Company is looking for enthusiastic talents to partner with our customers for all their printing and packaging needs!

With more than 250 years of experience, multiple production facilities, and investment in state-of-the-art technology with an emphasis on sustainability, Oliver Inc.

offers speed, reliability and flexibility as a one-stop solution for all of your printing & packaging needs. At Oliver Inc, our core values are part of the framework of our organization.

We're passionate and enjoy our work! We value respect, and focus on servicing our customers' needs by providing them with creative solutions that help build their brands.

When you partner with Oliver, you partner with success.

Oliver Inc . is looking for an accurate Print and Packaging Estimator responsible for determining the most economical layout for projects based on available equipment, by gathering information and analyzing important metrics.

The position involves frequent interaction with design, customer service, sales, and production departments to interpret and ensure customer requirements are met.

Working both independently and as part of a team, the successful candidate will have excellent mathematical skills and an analytical mindset.

You will provide knowledge of cost and benefits that support profitable business decisions.

If you love working with numbers, we would like to meet you!

Responsibilities

• Analyze documentation to prepare time, cost, materials, and labor estimates.
• Reviews estimate request, checking specs and other determinants. Contacts appropriate person to obtain missing information or to clarify request.
• Prepares most economical layout of job.
• Obtains paper prices if unusual stock and suggests possible alternatives.
• Contacts vendors for supplies and / or outsourcing needs.
• Work with production teams to review program specs and gather the required information to provide quotes to customers and sales by utilizing the estimating system.
• Familiarity with inventory control, planning and scheduling policies and procedures.
• Highly proficient in developing & improving Excel based tools as well as managing and analyzing to provide data driven decisions.
• Familiar with basic cost analysis and forecasting as it relates to scheduling and planning.
• Ongoing interaction with production, sales and customer service teams to determine and satisfy customer requirements and priorities.
• Prepares estimate by entering pertinent information : description and quantity, paper size, stock, appropriate press, bindery needs, outsourcing requirements, etc.

Obtains preliminary estimate.

Reviews preliminary estimate for correct pricing; adjusts proper paper counts, make-ready time, press run time, etc., as necessary.

Obtains revised estimate and reviews it for accuracy.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years proven experience as estimator or related position.
• Familiarity with financial and project management principles.
• Full knowledge of Printing, Packaging, and facets of Binding / Finishing is a plus.
• In depth knowledge of research and data analysis methods and estimation formulas.
• Proficient math ability with an analytical mindset.
• Outstanding communication and negotiation abilities.
• Advanced excel skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Knowledgeable in commercial printing, such as layout, spoilage, standards, finishing, etc. is a plus.
• Able to work independently.
• A degree in Business, Statistic, Industrial Engineering, Inventory Management or related discipline.
• Ability to calculate area, circumference, and volume and to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Oliver Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, citizenship status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

All candidates must submit to pre-employment drug testing prior to the commencement of employment.

Employment is contingent on a negative test result for certain illegal substances in accordance with State Law.

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