Technical Sales Engineer - GroAqua

Fish Farmer Magazine; Inverness; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

GroAqua, based in Inverness, is hiring a desk-based engineer to design and cost aquaculture systems. You will work with our Sales Team, select equipment, design solutions with our partners, and prepare the documentation that defines scope and responsibilities for each project.

You will price early, maintain detailed costings, and produce drawings and P&IDs. You’ll interact with customers and suppliers on technical questions and observe installations of your designs on farms.

Qualifications

• Desk-based engineering work with accuracy in design and costing.
• Effective communication with customers and suppliers on technical questions.
• Documentation of calculations and design rationale.

Responsibilities

• Advise Sales on equipment selection.
• Design the solution using GroAqua equipment range and installation methods.
• Price the project early and later with detailed costing.
• Draw up technical drawings, P&IDs, calculations and supporting docs.
• Define scope and interfaces with the customer and GroAqua.
• Engage suppliers for materials, compare responses.
• Assemble project documentation: scope, drawings, schedules, budgets, quotes.
• Answer technical questions from customers, suppliers and colleagues.
• Record calculations, costings and design rationales for each project.
• Suggest improvements in design, costing and documentation.

Skills

Technical drawing

Cost estimation

Supplier liaison

Tools

P&IDs

Job description

Inverness · Full time, permanent

Location: Inverness
Contract: Full time, permanent
Hours: Monday to Friday
Sector: Engineering, Aquaculture, Sales

GroAqua helps fish farmers grow healthy fish, on sea sites and on land. We design and supply the
systems that keep a modern farm running: feed barges, feeders and cameras, oxygen generation and
water treatment, fish handling, and the digital monitoring that ties it all together. From offices in
Inverness, Fort William and Stornoway, as well as Norway and the Faroe Islands, we work with the
biggest names in aquaculture.

The role

When a customer asks us whether something can be done, this is the person who works out the
answer.

You will take an enquiry from our Sales Team, select the equipment, design the system with our
manufacturing partners, cost it, and set out clearly what we are supplying and what the customer is
responsible for. You will then produce the drawings, schedules and scope documents the project is
built from.

It is a desk-based engineering job. The quotations you price are the ones we live with, so the work
needs to be right and it needs to be written down properly. You will deal directly with customers and
suppliers on technical questions, and you will see your designs installed on working farms.

No two enquiries are the same. One week it is oxygenation for a freshwater site, the next it is water
treatment for a hatchery or a fish handling system for a wellboat.

What you will be doing

• Advise the Sales Team on equipment selection.
• Design the solution, using our equipment range and standard installation methods.
• Price it, as a budget figure early on and as a detailed costing later.
• Draw it up: technical drawings, P&IDs, calculations and the supporting design documentation.
• Define the scope of works and the interfaces between GroAqua and the customer, and document
  both clearly.
• Go out to suppliers for materials and equipment, and compare what comes back.
• Pull together the project documentation: scope, drawings, schedules, budgets, material take-offs
  and supplier quotes.
• Answer technical questions from customers, suppliers and colleagues.
• Keep a record of the calculations, costings and design behind every project.
• Suggest and make improvements to how we design, cost and document projects.