Job Title: Estimating Engineer – Metallics & Composites
Location: India Mill, Darwen
Salary: £30,000 – £38,000 per annum based on skills, experience, and relevant qualifications
Job Type: Permanent, Full time
Hours: 4-day week Monday to Thursday 07:15 am to 5:00 pm totalling 37 hours weekly.
Brookhouse Aerospace is a well-known and respected name in the Aerospace Industry currently in its 71st year, and during this time, the business has seen many positive changes following an MBO in 2021 from Kaman UK.
We offer a range of capabilities, including manufacturing composite components, metallics, sheet metalwork, fabrication, machining and treatments.
If you are a highly experienced Estimating Engineer with at least five years of working experience within an aerospace/manufacturing environment, this could be the ideal role for you.
Here is what you can expect to be doing:
The Estimating Engineer (Metallics & Composites) is responsible for estimating enquiries for aerospace structural components and assemblies primarily based around Metallic & Composites structures & Surface Treatments including Painting. If required, provide completed requests for quotation summaries to customers, including but not limited to:
Metallics
- Flat and formed metallic details
- Metallic fabricated assemblies
- Metal to Metal bonding
- Routing and 5-axis machining of metallic components & details
- Protective Surface Treatments
- Painting
Composites:
- Carbon Composites and Glass Fibre details and assemblies
- Understanding the detail of Composite assembly
- Routing and 5-axis machining of Carbon Composites, Glass Fibre
About you:
- Engineering trade qualification at HNC level or equivalent
- Estimating in an Aerospace Manufacturing environment
- Understand ply books, ply data and final composite drawing detail
- Conversant with a wide range of Composite processes
- Understand the difference between low-volume and high-volume strategies
- Ability to understand & extract key information from engineering drawings & Bills of Material
- Ability to manipulate arithmetic data with a high degree of accuracy in time-limited situations
- Computer literate – advanced level Excel knowledge
- Enthusiastic, proactive & organised
- Analytical thinker
- High-level customer and business awareness
- Self-aware
- Achieves results accurately
- Team-worker
Benefits:
Aside from the competitive rate of pay, the following is available:
- Holidays start at 28 days per year (including Bank Holidays) Based on the 4-day week.
- On-site – Occupational Health
- Employee Referral Scheme
- Corporate Simplyhealth Cash Plan (Benefit in Kind)
- Life Insurance x 2
- Currently sourcing a subsidised onsite canteen
Brookhouse-Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities and Age Positive Employer.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK under ITAR restrictions.
If you’re interested in the role and would like to put yourself forward please hit APPLY
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Manufacturing Engineer, Production Operative, Manufacturing Operative, Metallic Engineer, Estimator may also be considered for this role.
