Nia P. Lassiter
Manufacturing Estimator
Fort Worth, TX · (817) 555 0119 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/niaplassiter
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Nine years estimating machined components and assemblies.
INDUSTRIES
Aerospace, defense, industrial equipment.
SPECIALTIES
Routing development, cycle time estimating, material yield, tooling amortization.
SYSTEMS
Epicor, Paperless Parts, SolidWorks, Mastercam, Microsoft Excel.
CREDENTIALS
Certified Cost Professional, Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International.
EDUCATION
Associate degree in manufacturing engineering technology, Tarrant County College.
Results at a Glance
18%
Percent over two
40
Part families
$240k
Year of lost
3%
Material by pricing
Executive Summary
Manufacturing estimator in a precision machining shop serving aerospace and defense customers. Nine years quoting from prints and models, building routings, cycle times and material costs into a price the shop can actually hold. Quotes 60 to 80 requests a month, mostly low volume work with tight tolerances.
Signature Achievements
- Lifted the quote win rate from 18 percent to 27 percent over two years without cutting gross margin.
- Cut quote turnaround from six days to two by templating routings for the 40 part families that repeat most.
- Recovered 240,000 dollars a year of lost margin by rebuilding the machine hour rates on actual spindle utilization.
- Reduced scrap cost carried in quotes by 3 percent of material by pricing bar stock yield from real nesting.
- Quoted a 1.8 million dollar landing gear package that ran within 4 percent of estimated hours through first article.
- Trained two estimators and wrote the quoting standard the department still works from.
Professional Experience
Manufacturing Estimator
Trinity Aerospace Machining, Fort Worth, TX 2020 to present
Quotes machined parts and assemblies for a shop of 130 employees running 22 machining centers.
- Builds routings, setup and cycle times and material requirements from customer models and prints.
- Prices tooling and fixturing and decides how much to amortize into the piece price against volume commitments.
- Runs make versus buy on outside processing including heat treat, plating and nondestructive testing.
- Reviews won quotes against actual job costs each quarter and adjusts the standards that were wrong.
Estimator
Panther Creek Precision Products, Arlington, TX 2017 to 2020
Quoted turned and milled parts for automotive and oilfield customers.
- Prepared 50 quotations a month from customer requests for quote and drawing packages.
- Negotiated material pricing and volume breaks with bar stock and casting suppliers.
- Priced engineering changes and revised open quotations when customer revisions landed.
Machinist
Cowtown Tool and Gage, Fort Worth, TX 2014 to 2017
Ran turning and milling cells on short run production work.
- Set up and operated computer numerical control lathes and machining centers.
- Recorded setup and run times that later became the basis for shop standards.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Cost Professional, Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International
Machining Level Two credential, National Institute for Metalworking Skills
Education
Associate degree in manufacturing engineering technology, Tarrant County College, 2014
Core Skills
Routing development · Cycle time estimating · Machine hour rates · Material yield analysis · Tooling amortization · Make versus buy · Epicor · Paperless Parts · Supplier negotiation · Quote to actual review