Proposals Engineer

Working as part of a small proposals team, you will be responsible for the end-to-end completion of high-quality proposals, quotations, bids and tender responses, which are both technically and commercially compliant with the client’s specifications.

• Timely preparation of detailed engineering proposals for the company’s complete range of products and services.
• Accurately interpret client’s technical specification and produce a compliant technical proposal; offering more suitable alternatives where appropriate.
• Accurately interpret client’s commercial requirements and ensure any commercial or contractual risks to the company are identified and mitigated.
• Ensure proposals pricing and estimating is in line with company’s agreed strategies on sales and marketing, charge out rates and availability of engineering resource.
• Act as a single point of contact for client and undertake a negotiating role when preparing costed proposals.
• Arrange and take a lead role in ‘bid review’, ‘bid clarification’ and ‘sales handover’ meetings.
• Write high quality technical and commercial documents and reports and present them to both internal and external audiences.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders to assist in collating accurate data for the preparation of proposals.
• Maintain a sales and marketing focus in all proposals related activity and in contacts with stakeholders.
• On a needs basis, provide resilience support to other departments within the company.
• Demonstrate leadership and commitment in promoting compliance with company quality and HS&E procedures

The above list of activities/responsibilities for the role of Proposals Engineer is not exhaustive and therefore you will be expected to carry out further duties as may be consistent with the role of Proposals Engineer or as may be reasonably instructed by the company.