Proposals Engineer

Proposals Engineer

Leicester

£30 000 + Benefits

The Company

Our client design and manufactures highly bespoke fabricated mechanical systems for a wide range of sectors including general industrial manufacturing as well as the metals and chemicals manufacturing sectors.

The business has been trading for over 70 years and has a great reputation in their industry known for the quality of their products and the service they provide for their customers.

The business carries out a wide range of fabrication on their shop floor including welding, press brake work and CNC Plasma Processing allow them to make their products bespoke for their customers tailoring them to the exact solutions the customer needs.

The business has new leadership in place, and the new senior team have ambitious plans to grow the business and update systems across the business to support this future growth. As part of this growth the business are looking to recruit for a Proposals Engineer with immediate effect.

The Role

The company manufacture a wide range of bespoke products including large filter systems, industrial ducting, fans and spray booths. The role of Proposals Engineer will work in conjunction with the Technical Sales Engineer.

The Technical Sales Engineer will carry out business development activities identifying requests for quotes, the Proposals Engineer will then be responsible for dealing with the quotation and proposals process.

This process will typically include;

• After the Sales Engineer carries out a site visit to understand and document the technical requirements of the design, the Proposals Engineer will flesh out the solution required in more detail and supply costing and quotations to the customer
• Sizing equipment needed for project including filter, fans and motors.
• Establishing proposed costing for the equipment.
• Working out the ducting runs required for the system and establishing the proposed costs for ducting.
• Potentially handling multiple proposals on a daily basis, the business can receive multiple RFQs on any given day and they aim to deliver a proposal to customers within three days of RFQ.
• You will be producing proposals for projects that can range from 5K up to 500K
• You will also have responsibility for putting together proposals for the COSHH tests the business provides.

The Candidate

To be successful in your application for this Proposals Engineer role you will need:

• A relevant Mechanical Engineering qualification
• Experience in either a design engineering or proposals relate role in an engineering environment
• Experience providing and calculating costings
• A strong grounding in excel
• To be eager to learn and develop
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

The Benefits

For this Proposals Engineer role, the following benefits are on offer:

• £30 000
• The opportunity to learn about the business directly from the MD
• Future potential development into more senior roles in the business

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