Senior Sales and Tendering Engineer

Our client delivers electrical infrastructure connections for residential, commercial, industrial, mixed‑use and renewable developments, due to growth they are looking to recruit a Sales and Tendering Engineer.

As a Senior Sales & Tendering Engineer you will be supporting customer enquiries and orders to the business. Compiling Multi-Utility Tenders together with the quality and commercial accuracy of tendered works within your remit. You shall build client relationships and have suitable and sufficient, knowledge, training & experience to deliver competitive, robust and accurate returns to your clients. You should be comfortable with providing technical advice, meeting your clients face to face, with support where needed, whilst returning and error free and articulate bids.

Implementing Gridcore Power practises and processes as well as customer satisfaction you will ensure these tenders are completed on time and to specifications both adoptable and to client expectations, whilst delivering all project objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Undertake Tender Design, Tender Proposal and Estimating based on project requirement in multi-utilities

Support our client's Sales & Tendering Manager and Sales Director when requested to do so.

Represent our client in a professional, timely and articulate manner, at all times, to all stakeholders.

Ensure that all assigned Tender Projects within your charge, are prioritised and returned within the agreeable timeframes, complaint or appropriately qualified &, when secured, carried through promptly to hand over to the Design team.

Proactively manage risk during the creation of the offering.

Achieve your individual project tendering quantity goals together with any yearly sales target.

Positively contribute the overall company sales target.

Maintain Sales/Project Handover specific documentation in line with the company’s Business Management System (BMS).

Maintain a Continual Professional development (CPD) strategy.

Experience & Qualities

Essential:

A desire to succeed, learn any apply skills

Experience of working within a face paced utility/ construction/services engineering sales team environment.

Proven experience of achieving sales targets

An understanding of tendering construction projects within MEICA/Utility Technical Construction Environment &/or T&D networks

 NVQ Level 3 qualification in technical sales, engineering, construction and/or management, &/or, equivalent knowledge, training and experience. 

An understanding of Construction, Design & Management Regulations 2015

Design development experience

Proven Experience in delivering robust quotation outputs.

Experience within the multi-utility industry

AutoCAD Competence

Competence with Word/Excel/Power point

Microsoft Project Competent to deliver simple tendering (baseline) programmes.

EUSR/CSCS/ECS

First Aid at Work Certificate

Minimum of 3 years’ operating as Sales & Tendering Engineer

Technically Competent in all aspects of tendering and design up to 20kV

Will have previous leadership experience

Some Commercial Experience – e.g. Contract Negotiations, Basic Finance knowledge

Authority to design approve or currently peer checking

Effective Project Management skills

Desire to extend technical specialism to aid the Business

Desirable:

MIET or working toward

Experience in working within a technical construction sale and estimating team.

An understanding   of construction projects that fall within the classification of “notifiable” under the Construction, Design & Management Regulations 2015

Knowledge &/or experience of working with ‘Trimble’ or equivalent

Project Management experience

Degree or equivalent qualification, lesser qualification with experience

Good and relevant technical knowledge through experience, training and or education

As a Senior Sales & Tendering Engineer you will be supporting customer enquiries and orders to the business. Compiling Multi-Utility Tenders together with the quality and commercial accuracy of tendered works within your remit. You shall build client relationships and have suitable and sufficient, knowledge, training & experience to deliver competitive, robust and accurate returns to your clients. You should be comfortable with providing technical advice, meeting your clients face to face, with support where needed, whilst returning and error free and articulate bids.

Implementing Gridcore Power practises and processes as well as customer satisfaction you will ensure these tenders are completed on time and to specifications both adoptable and to client expectations, whilst delivering all project objectives.

In return our client offer excellent salary and benefits packages