Job Description
Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer – Estimator
Location: Rochester; Kent: Onsite
Salary: Circa £40,000 depending on experience
Who we are:
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our general colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.
From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
Job Description:
Working closely with the bid team, the Manufacturing Engineer will ensure that requirements are understood and flowed down through the operations and supply chain, and agree achievable timescales for provision of estimates. Take on a dynamic role where you’ll create high‑impact, cost‑effective estimates that shape winning proposals, collaborate closely with operations and supply chain teams,



support customer and supplier fact‑finding, and influence key bid decisions. You’ll help drive continuous improvement by analysing build and support activity durations, while tracking material costs and build times to reveal true production costs as designs evolve, playing a vital part in turning innovative ideas into deliverable solutions.
Core duties:
Coordinating inputs from operations and supply chain, producing high quality, achievable and cost-effective estimates for the provision of required services and products in support of the customer proposal
Supporting fact finds by our customers for our estimates and also to support fact finds of our suppliers cost base
Supporting the various phases of the bid review and approval process, and be able to articulate the content and basis of our estimates in a professional manner
Reviewing build times & support activity durations, estimating future targets and wor

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