Penn Manufacturing Industries (PMI Group) is rapidly growing AS 9100 certified global provider of complex CNC machined parts and electro-mechanical assemblies to the Semiconductor Equipment and Aerospace industry. PMI is a global company with extensive manufacturing operations in Montgomeryville PA USA, India, and Singapore (this position is for the Montgomeryville PA USA location)

PMI Group is looking for an experienced CNC Machining Engineer / Manufacturing Engineer who will be responsible for quoting new business for customers. They will be responsible for putting together quotes for new CNC machining business (by interpreting customer design definition, blueprints, specifications, gathering quotes from outside vendors such as raw materials and surface treatments, etc).

Responsibilities:

• Create accurate cost estimates for labor (CNC machining and assembly), material, outside processing, production lead-time and other required estimates based on customer supplied part blueprints and specifications
• Calculate production costs using established labor rates, material and processing price estimates
• Analyze and interpret BOMs and gather pricing for hardware and other BOM items
• Coordinate with supply chain team on raw material supply and outside services within integrated supply chain and outside vendors
• Provide support to operations with process improvements on shop floor, tool design, cycle time improvements.
• Monitors status of submitted quotes (won/lost/other), following up where appropriate.
• Coordinates product planning / launch activity for new business awarded.
• Collaborates with Purchasing for purchased items in support of quotes.
• Serves as a primary point of customer contact (RFQs and quote-related activity, via phone, email, portal, etc.).
• Develops and maintains customer relationships.
• Reviews customer purchase orders for acceptance (pricing, delivery, terms and conditions, etc.), negotiating where appropriate.
• Manages customer specifications library.

Qualifications:

• Must have 5+ years of preparing accurate estimate reports for customers within the CNC machining industry
• At least 3-5 years of CNC precision machining or manufacturing engineering related experience of medium to highly complex components, including setup and operation of a diverse range of machine tools
• Complete understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and strong background in interpreting part blueprints and customer/industry specifications
• Solid understanding of the types of tooling required for specific applications and generalized machine shop procedures
• Must have the CNC machining knowledge to quote run time for variety of machining centers
• Understanding of Lean Manufacturing tools (quick change-over, SMED, cellular manufacturing, etc.) relevant to the estimating function is desired
• General working knowledge of ERP system
• Experience with Microsoft Office especially Excel
• Any CAD or CAM experience is a plus