Proposals Engineer - Rail in Wawrick, United Kingdom
Wawrick, United Kingdom |
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Permanent
Proposals Engineer - Rail
Scope of Role
- To produce a bid quotation to potential rail sector customers that is both commercially and technically compliant and present this submission in a well formatted and professional manner.
- To understand the bid strategy as presented by the Bid Manager and create bid documentation that reflects this strategy.
- To create and populate a comprehensive cost model, based on the technical information provided by the customer and transposition of priced solution from internal model into customer’s pricing model.
Accountable for:
- Manage and record all incoming enquiries with regards to rail and ensure that all bids are prepared in a professional and timely manner and in accordance with the customer’s requirements.
- Co-ordinate all technical aspects of the estimation and bid creation process ensuring they are delivered on time and to specification.
- Co-ordinate any inputs with engineering and ensure the technical content reflects the requirements of the customer.
- Proactive communication and collaboration with the procurement team to engage with third party suppliers in a timely manner.
- Creation of cost model templates tailored to reflect rail orientated customer requirements.
- Ownership of internal costing model to ensure easy transposition into customer pricing model.
- Complete Pre -Qualification Questionnaires where required.
- Provide technical review and input of supplier’s responses.
- Ensuring that the project bid strategy is met from a technical and commercial perspective.
- Presentation to Bid review team of technical solution proposed and commercial decisions made.
- Track and record the progress of proposals after they have been issued and respond to any technical and commercial clarifications.
- Production of commercial handover pack given to Projects.
- Arrange post bid reviews to apply learning and continuous improvement philosophy.
The duties outlined above are not intended to be exhaustive.
Key performance indicators:
- Customer feedback – in regard to bids submitted.
- Quality of Bids – Margin, accuracy, timescales
- Number of bids won/lost.
- Team outputs and engagement.
Person Specification
Essential
- Strong technical experience of working within the rail infrastructure sector and how projects are managed and delivered.
- Ability to interpret customers’ requirements from engineering drawings and design specification documents.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to build and support cost estimates associated with rail infrastructure.
- Working understanding of NEC Form of Contracts
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft suite of applications
- Excellent communication skill both oral and written.
- Pro-active individual who can work to challenging deadlines.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Network Rail standards and practices.
Education & Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline.
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