At a Glance
- Tasks: Create innovative storage solutions and prepare accurate cost estimates for customer projects.
- Company: Join The Whittan Group, the UK's largest steel storage manufacturer with a supportive culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, company pension, life assurance, and ongoing training opportunities.
- Other info: Structured training and development in a dynamic environment with great career prospects.
- Why this job: Be part of a collaborative team that values problem-solving and customer satisfaction.
- Qualifications: Strong attention to detail, commercial awareness, and good IT skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 36000 - 44000 £ per year.
The Whittan Group is the largest manufacturer of steel storage products in the United Kingdom. Operating with a number of market-leading brands, we design, manufacture and install storage solutions for commercial and industrial environments across the UK and Europe. This role is focused on creating practical, cost-effective storage solutions that meet customer requirements while supporting strong commercial outcomes. The Design Cost Estimator plays a key role in enabling sales success through accurate costing, attention to detail, and a structured, process-driven approach.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is customer-focused, commercially conscious, and enjoys problem-solving within a collaborative and supportive environment. We offer structured initial training alongside ongoing coaching and development.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop storage solutions: Create practical and compliant storage solutions based on customer requirements, ensuring designs are fit for purpose and commercially viable.
- Prepare accurate cost estimates: Produce detailed and accurate costings and Bills of Materials (BOMs) for system entry, ensuring all components are correctly specified and priced.
- Process-driven design support: Follow defined internal processes to ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency in all estimates and design outputs.
- Support commercial performance: Work closely with the sales team to provide timely, commercially aware cost information that supports quotation, conversion, and margin targets.
- Customer-focused collaboration: Maintain a strong customer mindset, ensuring proposed solutions balance customer needs, operational feasibility, and commercial outcomes.
- Problem solving: Identify and resolve design or costing challenges, offering practical solutions while maintaining attention to detail.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with sales, operations, and factory teams to ensure smooth handovers and high levels of internal and external satisfaction.
Required experience / skills / qualifications:
- Essential: Strong attention to detail and numerical accuracy, commercial awareness and understanding of cost-driven decision making, problem-solving skills with a practical, solution-focused approach, good IT literacy, including MS Word, Excel, and Outlook, ability to work effectively within and outside of defined processes.
- Desirable: CAD experience (AutoCAD or equivalent), experience within a manufacturing, engineering, or construction-related environment, knowledge of storage or racking systems (pallet racking, shelving, mezzanine).
Training and development:
- Structured onboarding and initial role-specific training.
- Ongoing coaching and development to build technical and commercial capability.
- Supportive management and collaborative team environment.
Competitive:
- Hours: 37.5
- Company pension
- Life assurance
- Long Service Awards
- Monthly STAR Awards
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Support from Trained Mental Health First Aiders
The Whittan Group promotes equality of opportunity and is committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly, regardless of gender or gender reassignment, age, ethnic or national origin, nationality, race, colour, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
Design Cost Estimator in Madeley employer: Whittan Group
The Whittan Group is an exceptional employer located in Milton Keynes, offering a dynamic work culture that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth. With generous benefits such as 33 days of holiday, a robust company pension, and comprehensive employee assistance programmes, we foster an environment where engineers can thrive and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. Join us to lead a dedicated team and make a meaningful impact in the engineering field.
