Proposal Engineer

Techniche Global are working with an engineering company to appoint a Proposals Engineer.
Location: Yorkshire
Salary: £30,000 - £44,000 per annum.
Type: permanent, home based with occasional visits to their office in Yorkshire.
Working as part of a small proposals team, you will be responsible for the end-to-end completion of high-quality proposals, quotations, bids and tender responses, which are both technically and commercially compliant with the client's specifications.
Responsibilities:
* Timely preparation of detailed engineering proposals for the company's complete range of products and services.
* Accurately interpret client's technical specification and produce a compliant technical proposal;
* Accurately interpret client's commercial requirements and ensure any commercial or contractual risks to the company are identified and mitigated.
* Ensure proposals pricing and estimating is in line with company's agreed strategies on sales and marketing, charge out rates and availability of engineering resource.
* Act as a single point of contact for client and undertake a negotiating role when preparing costed proposals.
* Arrange and take a lead role in 'bid review', 'bid clarification' and 'sales handover' meetings.
* Write high quality technical and commercial documents and reports and present them to both internal and external audiences.
* Liaise with internal stakeholders to assist in collating accurate data for the preparation of proposals.
The business can consider either an established Proposals/Bids/Tenders professional. Or someone who has a background in Engineering that has had some exposure to proposals, pricing, bids and tenders in their current role that now wants to take that to a full time position.
Qualifications and Experience:
Essential:
* HNC, HND or Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering or Process/Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience in a practical engineering role.
* Familiarity with Commercial/Technical review processes.
* Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office, Word and Excel.