Tendering Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Tendering Engineer
Location: Rosyth, UK

Compensation: Competitive
Role Type: Full time
Role ID: SF 50523

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Tendering Engineer at our LGE Business Unit in Rosyth.

The role

Through expert engineering, procurement, project management and aftermarket support - combined with world-leading technologies - LGE business future-proofs our customers' assets, allowing improved performance while reducing operational costs and meeting ever-tightening environmental and emission regulations.

The proud recipient of multiple Queen's Awards for Enterprise, LGE' s success is driven by the application of our proven Intellectual Property to support the existing and future needs of our customers.

Reporting to the Programme Manager - Tendering & Aftermarket, Tendering Engineers are responsible for the development of high quality, customer focussed technical and commercial proposals which align with the company strategy. Tendering Engineers will act as key liaison between internal and external stakeholders to produce robust, accurate and detailed tender submissions considering technical definition, schedule, cost, and risk - as well as operational resources, capability and project loading. Governance will be provided from Managing Director, Programme Managers, Contracts Manager and Procurement Manager. The Tendering Engineer is a hybrid role of Technical and Commercial responsibilities

Main Responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of the Company Commercial Strategy, bidding for projects in line with current and best practice n BLGE operational teams across all products in the portfolio.
• Demonstrate customer focus; concentrating on value-add activities. Deliver against early and continual engagement with our customers, suppliers and markets to understand broad base / systemic needs and value and address these in all actions / submissions.
• Support the Business Development and Sales teams by qualifying all opportunities, enabling accurate prioritisation and positioning within the team and business workload / resource planning - Engage with Intermediate (Yard) and End User (Owner / Charterer) as required, to support the accurate definition of requirements and development of 'Bid-win' theme
• Develop high quality, technically compliant, price and schedule competitive submissions for core projects
• Manage Risks and Opportunities throughout Opportunity Development ensuring accuratecommunication of mitigation and realisation strategies into Operational Teams.
• Provide Risk / Opportunity Update at Sales -Operations Handover Quality Management System

Essential experience of the Tendering Engineer

• Experience working in an Engineering company, Commercial experience not essential

Qualifications for the Tendering Engineer

• Must be qualified to Masters Degree level in relevant Engineering field

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.

Our Benefits

Generous holiday allowance
Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
Employee share scheme
Employee shopping savings portal
Payment of Professional Fees
Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International

For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.