Sales & Tendering Engineer (North Region)

HVSS - High Voltage Systems & Services Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Time, Permanent role

Hybrid Environment

25 days holiday + bank holidays + 1 b‑

Job summary

HVSS - High Voltage Systems & Services Ltd in Leeds is seeking a Sales & Tendering Engineer to support customer enquiries and orders, compiling multi-utility tenders with technical and commercial accuracy.

You will build client relationships, provide technical advice, and deliver error-free bids on time, while aligning with HVSS processes and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing tenders and preparing proposals for multi-utility projects.
• Proven ability to estimate tender requirements and costs.
• Must be able to travel for client meetings.
• Experience in MEICA/utility construction projects.
• Understanding of Construction Design & Management Regulations 2015.
• NVQ3 in relevant field or equivalent.
• Solid knowledge of tendering processes and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Undertake Tender Design, Proposal and Estimating based on project requirement in multi-utilities.
• Support the HVSS Regional Sales & Tendering Manager and Senior Sales & Tendering Engineer when requested to do so.
• Represent HVSS in a professional, timely and articulate manner, at all times, to all stakeholders.
• Ensure that all assigned Tender Projects within your charge are prioritised and returned within the agreeable timeframes, complaint or appropriately qualified, when secured, carried through promptly to hand over to the Design team.
• Proactively manage risk during the creation of the offering.
• Achieve your individual project tendering quantity goals together with any yearly sales target.

Skills

Tender design

Estimating

Client relationship management

Project management

AutoCAD

MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Notifiable construction knowledge

EUSR/CSCS/ECS

First Aid at Work

Education

NVQ Level 3 in technical sales/engineering/construction/management

Degree or equivalent qualification

Tools

AutoCAD

Trimble

Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Job description

• Design development experience
• Project Management experience

As a Sales & Tendering Engineer you will be supporting customer enquiries and orders to the business. Compiling Multi-Utility Tenders together with the quality and commercial accuracy of tendered works within your remit. You shall build client relationships and have suitable and sufficient, knowledge, training & experience to deliver competitive, robust and accurate returns to your clients. You should be comfortable with providing technical advice, meeting your clients face to face, with support where needed, whilst returning and error free and articulate bids. Implementing HVSS practises and processes as well as customer satisfaction you will ensure these tenders are completed on time and to specifications both adoptable and to client expectations, whilst delivering all project objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake Tender Design, Tender Proposal and Estimating based on project requirement in multi-utilities
• Support the HVSS Regional Sales & Tendering Manager and Senior Sales & Tendering Engineer when requested to do so.
• Represent HVSS in a professional, timely and articulate manner, at all times, to all stakeholders.
• Ensure that all assigned Tender Projects within your charge, are prioritised and returned within the agreeable timeframes, complaint or appropriately qualified &, when secured, carried through promptly to hand over to the Design team.
• Proactively manage risk during the creation of the offering.
• Achieve your individual project tendering quantity goals together

with any yearly sales target.

Essential

Experience & Qualities

• A desire to succeed, learn any apply skills
• Experience of working within a face paced utility/ construction/services engineering sales team environment.
• Proven experience of achieving sales targets.
• An understanding of tendering construction projects within MEICA/Utility Technical Construction Environment &/or T&D networks.
• NVQ Level 3 qualification in technical sales, engineering, construction and/or management, &/or, equivalent knowledge, training and experience.
• An understanding of Construction, Design & Management Regulations 2015
• Design development experience
• Proven Experience in delivering robust quotation outputs.
• Experience within the multi-utility industry
• AutoCAD Competence
• Competence with Word/Excel/Power point
• Microsoft Project Competent to deliver simple tendering (baseline) programmes.
• EUSR/CSCS/ECS
• First Aid at Work Certificate
• Organisational and Time Management
• Ability to compile professional correspondence
• Relationship management - Managing customer expectations
• Team working
• Effective Project Management skills
• Desire to succeed
• Desire to extend technical specialism to aid the Business

Desirable

• MIET or working toward
• Experience in working within a technical construction sale and estimating team
• An understanding of construction projects that fall within the classification of "notifiable"

under the Construction, Design & Management Regulations 2015.

• Knowledge &/or experience of working with 'Trimble' or equivalent
• Project Management experience
• Degree or equivalent qualification, lesser qualification with experience
• Good and relevant technical knowledge through experience, training and or education
• Training shall be provided to work towards an industry recognised project management qualification

• Further training in technical aspects relevant to the effective delivery of projects and management of customers

Perks & Commitments

• Full Time, Permanent role
• Career progression with outlined career-map
• Monday - Friday 8:30am - 17:00pm (40 hours per week)
• Hybrid Environment (Minimum of 2x office-based days, per week).
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays as standard + extra day for your birthday
• Up to 5 extra days holiday for long service
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• The option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
• 5% employer pension contribution
• 2x Death in Service Cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Private health cover, half paid for by us, and fully paid after 3 years