Proposals Engineer

Salary: £36 – £60 per hour

Brief description of the Job’s function

The Proposals Engineer will be responsible for the preparation and submission of tenders throughout all phases of the corporate proposal process. 

The candidate will compile bid packages ensuring that these are high quality, accurate and demonstrate both our Technical and Commercial strengths. They must be specific to the Clients’ requirements drawing on key selling features which will separate this organisation from our competitors.

The Proposals Engineer must be able to manage their workload, ensuring that Clients deadlines are adhered to. They must maintain a professional approach all times whilst exceeding customer expectations through all stages of the transaction process.

The growth of the business is highly dependent on securing new business based on clear detailed information being provided at tender stage. To this end, the job holder must demonstrate a strong commercial acumen.

Main duties & responsibilities of the job holder

To compile tenders for the company in line with the business plan targets, maintaining customer satisfaction and good client relations.

• To adhere to company core values
• Have the ability to identify, understand, interpret and collate customer requirements and compile compliant and alternative technical and commercial bids as required
• Have an understanding of engineering principles in order to carry out preliminary design and estimation of the company’s products
• Receive the inputs from all involved departments and challenge proposed solutions in order to optimise costs & schedule
• Able to liaise with and convey customer requirements to Design, Project Management and Production teams
• Ensure timely submission of proposals to Clients
• Check and review bids when required
• Training, support and assistance to members of the team as well as other colleagues on an ongoing basis
• Foster harmonious team-working with other departments
• Ensure clear handover from tendering to Projects of information for all secured opportunities, ensuring all risk and opportunities are communicated to the Project team in a timely manner
• Attend/Lead ER, CR, Handover and Kick off meetings when required
• Ensure that all systems are maintained and developed in line with company procedures
• Review previous Projects costs in order to ensure that costings and labour hours are accurate and up to date
• Ensure product track records are maintained with accurate project information
• As necessary, perform other duties, requiring essentially the same level of skill & responsibility

The Job holder

Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Training

Required:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Contractual awareness
• Strong analytical and commercial skills
• Understanding of Engineering principles
• Previous estimating experience
• Ability to effectively manage own workload, and work within given timescales (both internal and external), ensuring project requirements are met
• Ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines

Desirable:

• Previous work experience as a Proposals/Tendering/Contracts Engineer preferably within the Oil & Gas or Offshore Construction industries
• Good communication, organisational and negotiation skills
• Ability to work using own initiative and to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Pro-active forward looking approach
• Commitment to provide excellent Customer Care
• Ability to read and understand specifications and drawings