At a Glance
- Tasks: Support customer enquiries and compile accurate multi-utility tenders.
- Company: Join a leading firm in electrical infrastructure connections.
- Benefits: Attractive salary, benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a focus on customer satisfaction and project success.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the utility industry while building client relationships.
- Qualifications: Experience in sales, tendering, and technical knowledge in construction.
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 error-free and articulate bids. Implementing Gridcore Power practices 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 requirements 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, compliant or appropriately qualified, and 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 to 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 and apply skills.
- Experience of working within a fast-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 and/or T&D networks.
- NVQ Level 3 qualification in technical sales, engineering, construction and/or management, and/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/PowerPoint.
- 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.
- 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 and/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.
In return, our client offers excellent salary and benefits packages.
Senior Sales and Tendering Engineer in Fleet employer: AWC STAFF SERVICES LTD
AWC STAFF SERVICES LTD is an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Greater London where innovation and teamwork thrive. With a strong focus on employee development, we provide ample opportunities for growth and advancement within the facilities operations sector, alongside competitive benefits and a commitment to safety and quality standards. Join us to be part of a dedicated team that values your expertise and fosters a culture of excellence.
