Engineer in Training (Project Engineer) in Southampton

Your Company: NET Recruit are partnering with a fantastic successful manufacturing and engineering business to assist them on their search for a Projects Engineer to work in Southampton. Due to sustained success, spanning over a number of years, this business has continued to grow, not only its workforce but also the customer base in which it operates, becoming a leader within its industry. With a clientele that have come to expect a high level of service from this business, which it prides itself on always delivering, the company are searching for driven and dedicated individuals to join their team to ensure this quality is maintained.

This role will hold an important position within the client facing team, providing detailed quotes to clients that not only meet their requirements but will work to ensure the business remains profitable. As a result of the hard work conducted by the team, the business can continue their growth and continuously improve on the quality of the service they are delivering, showing that this role will have a direct positive impact on the business and its future.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Creating installation quotations for sales engineers that meet project requirements and include all pertinent information
• Ensuring that each project is priced so that profit is taken into consideration
• Providing details of components needed to complete projects, breaking down the costs, including profit margins and delivering this to the sales engineers
• Producing schematic diagrams on CAD or something similar on occasion to support quotations
• Raising purchase orders
• Attending site meetings with clients and engineers
• Acting as the main point of contact for clients and contracts for projects
• Ensuring that records are kept for all work relating projects and update this with progress as it occurs
• Attending sales and technical meetings, reporting on work undertaken to managers

What you will need to Apply:

Specifically for this role, the business is looking to speak with keen individuals who come from an engineering background and who may additionally have excellent technical knowledge and experience. Candidates should have worked within a similar role, handling quotations and projects, as well as CAD knowledge. It would be highly desirable to also have knowledge of contract or project management. Strong communication skills and organisational abilities.

What you will get in Return:

The business is offering the successful candidate a starting salary up to £56,000, which will be highly dependent on previous relevant experience and technical working knowledge that can be utilised in this role. There will also be a strong peripheral package to accompany this, including a very good holiday allocation, competitive pension scheme to enrol in and a plethora of other monetary and valuable incentives, discounts and rewards to seize. You'll also gain fantastic industry exposure within a high profile and respected business, working as part of a comprehensive team to deliver outstanding services to their customers. As a point of contact within the process, you will gain first-hand experience liaising with businesses across the country. There will also be update training provided in the future, to ensure your skills are kept up to date and additionally, there will be opportunities for growth within the company supported by opportunities for progression.