Manufacturing Engineering Administrator - Quoting & BOMs

About Vet Powered:
Vet Powered, LLC, named Veteran Owned Small Business of the Year in the United States, is a rapidly growing San Diego based corporation specializing in manufacturing, welding, fabrication, machinery repair and customized training under private and U.S. Government contracts. Vet Powered employs a highly trained workforce that uses the latest in cutting edge CNC equipment. Vet Powered is dedicated to bringing advanced manufacturing back to America.

Key Job Functions:
At Vet Powered, the Manufacturing Engineering Administrator - Quoting & BOMs will support the transition from customer requirements to accurate quotes, awarded purchase orders, and bills of material. This role is a strong opportunity for a recent engineering graduate or early-career engineering professional looking to build practical experience in a hands-on aerospace and contract manufacturing environment.

Before purchase orders are received, this role will support quoting by reviewing customer drawings, specifications, models, quality clauses, and related technical documents to help identify the materials, hardware, outside processing, tooling, inspection requirements, and production needs required to estimate the work accurately.

After purchase orders are received, this role will help convert awarded work into production-ready job packages. This includes developing and updating bills of material based on the awarded PO, customer drawings, specifications, revision levels, quality requirements, and any changes from the original quote. The Manufacturing Engineering Specialist will help ensure required raw material, hardware, tooling, fixtures, inserts, gauges, consumables, outside processing, and inspection-related requirements are identified before the job is released to production.

This position will work closely with estimating, purchasing, quality, programming, manufacturing, and leadership to confirm that quoted requirements, awarded PO requirements, BOMs, tooling needs, and production planning details are aligned. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation, attention to detail, and a desire to learn how engineering requirements become real parts on the shop floor.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Assist with Quoting and Technical Review

• Review customer drawings, models, specifications, purchase orders, statements of work, quality clauses, and supporting documentation to identify full job requirements.

• Assist in reviewing drawings for quotes and active jobs to identify problem areas, manufacturability concerns, missing requirements, and compliance risks.

• Identify drawing, specification, or customer requirement issues that may affect pricing, lead time, manufacturability, quality, or delivery.

• Support quote preparation by identifying assumptions, exclusions, risks, special requirements, and open questions.

• Assist with estimating labor, material, outside processing, tooling, inspection, and production requirements.

• Coordinate with program managers, purchasing, quality, manufacturing leads, programming, and customers to confirm job requirements as needed.

Bill of Material and Tooling Ownership

• Create, maintain, and update accurate bills of material for quoted and awarded jobs.

• Develop finalized BOMs after purchase orders are received, ensuring all customer requirements, drawings, specifications, revisions, and quality clauses are accounted for before production release.

• Identify required raw materials, hardware, outside processing, coatings, tooling, fixtures, consumables, and other job-specific requirements.

• Own tooling requirements for assigned jobs, including identifying required tooling, fixtures, special tools, inserts, gauges, and consumables needed to support production.

• Coordinate with purchasing, manufacturing, programming, and quality to confirm tooling and BOM requirements are accurate, available, and aligned with the production plan.

• Review quoted BOMs against awarded purchase orders and job requirements to identify changes, missing items, or additional costs before release to the shop floor.

• Maintain awareness of stock items and assist in identifying opportunities to…