PROPOSAL ENGINEER

SUMMARY:
Our client is looking for a BEng with 4 to 5 years’ experience, preferably with plant maintenance or in a production or manufacturing environment - with an affinity to plant design.

POSITION INFO:

We are looking for an individual who has initiative and drive and is able to work under the pressure of tender deadlines and closing sales in accordance with company policies, procedures and ISO quality standards.

Duties:

• Visit new customers and solicit enquiries
• Review customers specifications and commercial conditions
• Perform site and boiler surveys and record all required information
• Identify site and boiler house risks and opportunities
• Liaise with other departments within the company as required e.g. engineering, drawing office, procurement, works, spares etc.
• Prepare cost estimates, including issuing and adjudicating purchase enquiries for bought-out items
• Prepare proposals including commercial and technical documents in line with company procedures
• Preparation of power point presentation
• Follow-up tenders and securing of orders
• Prepare and issue confirmation orders and hand-over to the Contracts Specialist
• Update and maintain proposals data bases

Must have a minimum of five years in an engineering environment, with proposals, sales, project management experience in a boiler related industry (will be an advantage) with the focus on the following:

 

• Be able to interact with customers at all levels
• Ability to define project requirements based on customer interaction
• Knowledge and experience of boiler house risk assessments
• Estimating experience
• A proven track record of preparing tenders and securing orders
• Ability to prepare proposals and technical documents
• Knowledge and experience with international commercial conditions (FIDIC, NEC3, etc) will be an advantage
• Strong negotiation skills
• Have impeccable communication skills, both oral and written in English
• Can work well within a team environment as well as without supervision
• Be fluent in MS Office (ie MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Be prepared to travel locally and internationally.

 

Should you not receive a response within 10 working days, please consider your application as unsuccessful

 

NB! This job is now closed. You can apply for other jobs by uploading your CV.

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