Job Vacancies at Ascentech Services Limited

Our client, a leading Printing, Publishing & Packaging company with head office in Lagos, is currently looking to hire a very effective Estimator, who will be responsible for interpret job specification, plan the production of the job as a map before preparing the estimate and preparing the estimate in a profitable, competitive and most economical way.

Job title: Estimator
Location: Lagos
Sector: Printing, Publishing & Packaging
Division: General Services / Technical

Duties:

• Interpret job specification
• Plan the production of the job as a map before preparing the Estimate
• Prepare the Estimate in a profitable, competitive and most economical way considering the company production tools.
• Advise the client through the Client Service office on the most economical specification where needful.
• Have independent idea of current market price of print material.
• Liaise with production team for feedback on actual production flow of job.
• Generate Quotation Estimate
• Generate Production Estimate Form.
• Prepare job bag.
• Generate Weekly & Monthly report.

Education / Experience / General Requirements

• HND / BSc in Printing or in a relevant discipline
• 5+ years cognate work experience with two years in a large scale commercial printing organization.
• Ability to interpret a job specification form correctly
• Knowledge of the print production process of jobs specification
• Ability to identify machine required for job process 
• Ability to plan job economically
• Proficiency in use of Estimating Software
• Microsoft office tools (MS Word, MS Excel)
• Team Spirit
• Ability to work under pressure without making errors
• Work under less supervision
• Must possess superior business communication skills. 
• Natural affinity and passion for details, technical problem solving 
• Must be a transformational leader; should be able to work with and through people to achieve results.
• Must be decisive, courageous, with good decision making skills.
• Gentle but firm in dealing with staff

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Duties

• Conduct daily scrum meetings and must have exposure in managing digital apps projects
• Conduct agile ceremonies (standees, sprint end review, documenting the deliverables, retro inspection of backlog grooming and what we did better / bad)
• Encouraging the project stakeholders on the benefits of impediment resolution for the folks who are not attending the stand ups.
• Push for agile adoption culture within the team and the respective stakeholders involved in the success of the project
• Maintaining sprint board, backlog grooming in Jira (by working with the product management before start of sprint 1 to go ahead with a high end back log)
• Conduct backlog grooming sessions every 2 to 3 sprints with the product manager
• Prepare a plan for 2 to 3 sprints in advance for more transparency in the upcoming releases
• Encourage & ensure need of planned sprint for release and ensuring testers start contributing from day 1 by adding acceptance positive / negative test criteria and code branching & review approach

Education / Experience / Other Requirements

• B.Sc / HND in Computer Science, Project Management or related discipline. A good blend of relevant Scrum, Project Management and IT experience will be preferred.
• A minimum of 7 years relevant experience
• Ability to manage offshore and on site engineering associates
• Proficient in tools like Jira, Slack, Microsoft Project Plan and Microsoft Sharepoint
• Capability of keeping pace with the "shorter cycle to releasesФ and yet being nimble to cater Уjust in timeФ requests, instead of pushing them to backlog / next phase / sprint via release tracking in Jira.

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Location: Mainland, Lagos

Requirements

• OND in any discipline
• Previous experience as a Secretary.
• Administrative writing skills
• Reporting skills
• Supply management
• Scheduling
• Microsoft Office skills
• Professionalism, confidentiality, and organization
• Attention to detail.
• Organizing and servicing meetings (producing agendas and taking minutes)
• Managing databases
• Prioritizing workloads
• Implementing new procedures and administrative systems.