Southern Champion Tray

Designer

• Act in accordance with Southern Champion Tray's shared Core Values and Operating principles
• Price custom boxes and provide Sales with accurate, competitive, and timely formal quotations
• Evaluate job requirements, develop reliable cost assumptions, and support new and repeat business opportunities
• Receive pricing requests and review box type, board details, print needs, and production requirements
• Prepare accurate pricing using estimating guidelines and the estimating matrix
• Build production and run information, including machine, die, number up, sheet size, and master case size
• Review material, labor, machine time, outside service, and production assumptions
• Support Sales with quick quote turnaround, bid reviews, and customer or Sales questions
• Maintain working relationships with Sales Managers and Account Managers
• Collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Operations, Production Operators, and other stakeholders
• Support Esko Web Center as a secondary administrator through workflows, training, troubleshooting, and release updates
• Pull monthly data, compare estimated costs to actual costs, and improve estimating accuracy, speed, and workflow
• Create and update CAD drawings and die layouts for basic and custom carton structures
• Apply design knowledge for folds, scores, cuts, tabs, seams, glue areas, material thickness, and grain direction
• Design cartons with die cutting, gluing, forming, printing, and assembly in mind
• Work with Engineering, Operations, and the Die Shop to confirm manufacturability, tooling needs, and cost impacts
• Partner with the Die Shop to confirm tooling and die requirements
• Build knowledge of die construction, die maintenance, tooling lead times, and production constraints
• Troubleshoot tooling issues affecting production assumptions
• Provide support across Estimating, CAD, and Die Shop during high-volume periods, backlogs, bid reviews, and special projects
• Support continuous improvement across departments
• Generate monthly reports on CAD, Estimating, and Graphics turnaround times, consumables, and win rates using WebCenter data

Estimating and Design Specialist