Sales and Planning Engineer

Full Job Description

An exciting role has become available at a precision engineering company offering high-end engineered and manufactured solutions.

Job Role: Sales / Planning Engineer

Location: Yeovil

Salary: tbc

Full Time: Monday to Friday

To develop and grow customer business relationships and liaise with operations to ensure the planning of processes is effective & compliant.

This role will include:

• Maintain and Grow New Customer Value Streams through the timely response to Customer RFQs & Technical Enquiries.
• Analysing and conversion of Customer Drawings, models, specifications and instructions into a compliant & effective Processing Plan.
• Estimating Processing Costs and Quoting Price & Lead times.
• Being proactive around REACH Compliance & Obsolescence by offering alternative Technical Solutions to the Customer.
• Establishing Customer LTAs / LTCs.
• Consumable Stock Analysis & Controls at RFQ stage.
• Benchmarking of Prices & Internal Cost Analysis.
• Identifying Business Cases for additional or alternative processing.
• Ensuring Process Planning is compliant, including (but not limited to) NADCAP & AS9100 requirements.
• Upselling of the Group Capability.
• Identifying and Introduction of Continuous Improvement Processing Initiatives.
• Analysing of Sales by Customer / Process etc and Capacity to sell into.

Skills and experience required:

• Strong Commercial Awareness and Customer Focus.
• Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail.
• Understanding of Processing Techniques & associated Jigging.
• Experience in Estimating and Quoting.
• Surface Finishing / Treatment Qualification (desirable).
• Well-rounded interpersonal and communication skills.

Please do contact me for further information (phone number removed)