Applications Engineer (UPS) in Scarborough

Location: Scarborough

Salary: Competitive

Job type: Full Time - Permanent

We want all our colleagues to grow and build careers with Dale. We invest in our people for the future. Many of our team members have been with us for over 30 years and some of our management team began their careers as apprentices. As we have grown so too have they and that knowledge is passed down as our team develops and evolves.

No two days are the same and variety is a key part of life for our team at Dale. There’s always an opportunity to learn new skills and progress your career. We want to be a great place to work that is diverse and inclusive which is why we focus on supporting people and their development.

The Role/What you’ll do:

To support our Sales team with accurately costed technical solutions to win orders for both products and services.

Why you’re our kind of person:

We’re not looking for people who sit down and say, ‘that’ll do’, we’re driven by doing the right thing for our customers. We operate in an agile fast-paced environment, and we are always looking forward, improving, never settling, and wanting to be the difference for our customers. It’s an exciting time to join the energy industry as we seek to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and our ambitions present a tremendous opportunity. We work hard to deliver, and there’s a lot to do, but the ability to make an impact in our business is significant. So, if that resonates with you and you want to love our customers as we do then come join a team of like-minded people.

What good looks like:

• Seamless: You’ll provide high quality solutions to our customers
• Specialist: You’ll be skilled in your area, be an expert in a number of Dale processes and be commercially smart.
• Collaborative: You’ll advise your colleagues and input into other work, and also be able to work independently to get the job done.

What you’ll do:

• Translate the client requirements and specifications for both Generator and UPS products into a costed technical proposal comprising generally of a commercial offer, technical specifications, and data sheets.
• Produce a cost make up/price make up (CMU / PMU) to reflect the requirements of 7.1
• Support of Sales in the successful negotiation with the client acceptable pricing, technical details, commercial terms and conditions and technical contents within the business guidelines and at optimised project profitability.
• Undertake tendering activities including site surveys and other onsite and off-site client meetings.
• Communicate effectively to hand over successful project orders to the Contracts, Engineering and Manufacturing teams.
• Provide technical support to the Project/Contracts Manager throughout the delivery of the project to bring successful conclusion in accordance with the project requirements and to maximize the profitability.
• Undertake other tasks as directed by the Head of Technical Sales.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Graduate, HNC/HND, or equivalent, in a suitable engineering discipline.
• Experience: You’ll communicate openly, transparently, and effectively to ensure a high level of customer service.
• High level of IT literacy and experience with spreadsheets and word processing.
• You’ll be resilient and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• You’ll be keen to work collaboratively with others to develop shared solutions.
• You’ll have good levels of self-awareness, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• You’ll have good time management skills.

Our values:

• Do the right thing.
• Be the difference.
• Love our customers.
• Never settle.
• Look forward.

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