Job Purpose: Shop Drawings & Costing Engineer is the one responsible for creating and plotting technical drawings needed for designing products and besides collecting and analyzing data & information, in order to estimate costs & selling prices associated with manufacturing new products and as per each project’s specifications and requirements.

Job Specifications:

Duty 1. Shop Drawings:

• Gather, collect and review all details, proposals and documents related to new projects provided by the technical office department in order to have full awareness of all new products’ specifications & requirements.
• Prepare detailed shop drawings and specify the list of materials required in terms of quantities &the qualities.
• Select & choose suitable materials for each product (wood, metal, accessories, paint, textiles, fabrics, etc…).
• Produce cutting lists needed for furniture and woodwork production.
• Ensure high quality and creative functional production’s solutions to make sure that there are proper conversions of the products’ technical designs into processes and procedures.
• Work closely with other related technical / non-technical departments (production, warehouse, design, procurement, sales, finance, operations, etc…).

Duty 2. Cost Estimation, Analysis & Control:

• Monitor and analyze the collected cost information including cost of raw materials used, operation costs, production costs, cost of wasted materials, direct & indirect costs, to support in forecasting the new products’ selling prices.
• Implement and utilize cost methodologies and tools together with appropriate software models and programs to prepare and maintain reliable and accurate costing data.
• Convert all the collected data into cost estimates for new and current products.
• Establish and determine cost estimate targets during the design processes, development processes and production processes.
• Establish the selling prices through multiplying the estimated costs by profit’s factors as per each project’s specifications.
• Assess cost effectiveness of products by comparing actual costs versus the estimated ones to ensure costs are controlled and are as per the forecasted budgets.
• Identify and develop strategies and techniques to improve cost – efficiency while maintaining the desired quality.
• Recommend opportunities for cost savings and cost reduction measures.
• Identify potential risks and issues that could impact products’ costs.
• Stay updated on industry best practices and cost control methodologies.

Duty 3. Coordination & Alignment:

• Give cost impact advises and support management decisions by providing accurate & detailed cost information and data.
• Communicate with projects/sales department to know all specifications and requirements per each project.
• Work with production department to ensure cost estimates are accurate and to resolve any costing issues that might arise.
• Communicate with the procurement department to get the price list of raw materials and accessories purchased to be used in producing new items.
• Communicate with the finance department to know all the financial details about products.

Duty 4. Documentations & Reporting:

• Prepare monthly costing reports and selling prices’ forecasts and report any variance whether under or over the approved budgets.
• Maintain accurate records and archive all necessary costing documents.