Special Projects Senior Sales & Tendering Engineer

HVSS, founded in 2010, is a privately owned company with an outstanding reputation amongst clients and the wider utilities industry. We have seen immense growth year on year, with offices located around the UK, providing an innovative approach to our clients nationally. We offer services ranging from private high voltage connections and maintenance to multiple new connections across Electricity, Gas, Telecoms, Water and EV Charging. We strive to be market leaders and are looking for motivated individuals to join us on our journey and to be part of our bright future.

The Role

As a Tendering Engineer, you will be responsible for tendering a portfolio of lower value 'Special Projects' together with contributing toward high value electrically biased tenders. The scopes will include the customer owned 'High Voltage' electrical networks, Primary iDNO substations, associated Grid connections or alike.

You will be responsible for the timely delivery of your tenders together with the quality and commercial accuracy of tendered works within your remit. You shall build client relationships and, as a Special Projects Tendering Engineer, you 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. The tendering process will comply with HVSS ISO 9001.

All Special Projects resources may, at times, be required to be hybrid roles in terms of tendering, design development and/or delivery, subject to their knowledge, understanding and competence. The works area may be within the Midlands region; however, it may also be within the wider United Kingdom. You will be accountable for project change control which shall include raising respective quotations.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the HVSS Special Projects Manager and Senior Tendering Engineer when requested to do so.
• Represent HVSS in a professional, timely and articulate manner, at all times, to all stakeholders.
• Ensure that all Special Projects tenders, within your charge, are prioritised and returned within the agreeable timeframes, compliant or appropriately qualified & when secured, carried through promptly to hand over to the projects 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 Special projects sales target.
• Maintain Sales/Project Handover specific documentation in line with the company's BMS.
• Maintain a Continual Professional Development (CPD) strategy.

Essential Experience & Qualities

• A desire to succeed.
• 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 &/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.
• AutoCAD Competence.
• Competence with Word/Excel/PowerPoint.
• Microsoft Project Competent to deliver simple tendering (baseline) programmes.
• EUSR/CSCS/ECS.
• First Aid at Work Certificate.

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.

Perks & Commitments

• Full Time, Permanent role.
• Monday - Friday 8:30am - 17:00pm (40 hours per week).
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays as standard.
• Up to 3 extra days holiday for long service - 2 years +1, 5 years +1, 10 years +1.
• The option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year.
• 5% employer pension contribution.
• 2x Death in Service Cover.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Private health cover, half paid for by us, and fully paid after 3 years.