About the Company
John Cockerill, enablers of opportunities. Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to low carbon energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures. Its offer to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures.
Job Overview
Technical Proposal Manager (Mechanical)
Responsibilities
- The technical proposal manager is responsible for Mechanical Engineering aspects of a steel processing line from initial request stage to firm binding commitment with the Customer.
- The technical proposal manager is responsible for ensuring quality, optimized cost and delivery of the technical documentation which includes major deliverables given below:
- Line and Motor Calculations
- Line Basic Data and Technical Specifications
- Ensuring implementation of learning from reference projects in new proposals and driving cost optimization during processing line engineering.
- Reviewing and providing technical clearance for major bought outs.
- Working with technical proposal lead, technology experts and product line managers to guarantee the customer requirements, translates into achievable functional specifications and performance guarantees.
- Support execution team with required information during project handover and lifecycle.
- Work with line layout team and thermal team to develop line layout as per Customer RFQ.
- Working closely with proposal managers to ensure complete technical documentation for a proposal.
Qualifications
- 18-20 years of experience in technical design and engineering of one or more of the below processes in the international steel making of flat products, with a project value of 50 to 500 Crores:
- Automotive and construction grade continuous annealing and galvanizing lines
- Cold rolling mills
- Pickling lines, and acid regeneration plants
- Electrical steel – Annealing pickling and Annealing coating line
Technical Offer Experience
- Generation of line layout as per Customer RFQ and calculations
- Generation of line technical specifications, utilities data
- Process related, Production and Cycle time calculations.
- Defining Line tension requirements
- Reviewing technical offers of major bought outs
- Verification of assembly drawings, P&ID, and process diagrams
- Drafting performance as per design reviews
- Defining technical deviations from those set out in the RFQ.
- References in Technical proposal engineering (mechanical) with high-end flat steel makers in Europe, USA, and Asia, like Arcelor Mittal, Baowu, TATA, Nucor, JSW
Background, Skills, and Competencies
- Good in communication (English – Oral and Written)
- Ability to defend one’s point of view from technical standpoint.
- Knowledge of IT tools Microsoft 365 (Teams, Tasks, Planner, Project on-line), Autodesk (AutoCAD, Inventor, Vault), Power BI & Excel pivot tables.
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders – both local and international
- Working in an agile environment with high perseverance
Equal Opportunity Employer. John Cockerill and all John Cockerill Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or other characteristics protected by law.