Special Projects (Private Networks) – Tendering Engineer
- Employer
- HVSS
- Location
- Kettering, Northamptonshire
- Salary
- £45-£55K DOE
- Closing date
- 12 Feb 2025
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- Discipline
- Design, Electrical, Maintenance & Service, Project Engineering, Other
- Sector
- Construction & Building Services, Oil & Gas, Power
- Job Type
- Engineer, Senior & Chartered Engineer, Engineering Manager, Business & Non-Engineering
Job Details
Job Title: Special Projects (Private Networks) – Tendering Engineer
Reporting To: Special Projects (Private Networks) Contracts Lead
Department: Special Projects
Salary: £45-£55K DOE
Location: Kettering, Northamptonshire, with up to 40% hybrid following successful completion of Probation
About us
HVSS, founded in 2010, are a privately owned company with an outstanding reputation amongst clients and the wider utilities industry. We have seen immense growth year on year, with offices located around the UK, we provide an innovative approach to our clients nationally. We offer services ranging from private high voltage connections and maintenance to multiple new connections across Electricity, Gas, Telecoms, Water and EV Charging. We strive to be market leaders and are looking for motivated individuals to join us on our journey and to be part of our bright future.
The Role
As a Tendering Engineer within HVSS Special Projects you will be responsible for the Sales and Tendering of a portfolio of Private Network tenders.. The scopes to be tendered will predominately include the design, installation & maintenance of customer owned ‘High Voltage’ electrical networks.
As a Tendering Engineer will be responsible for the timely delivery of your tenders together with the quality and commercial accuracy of tendered works within your remit. You shall build client relationships and as a Special Projects Tendering Engineer, you 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. The tendering process will comply with HVSS ISO 9001.
All Special Projects resources may, at times, be required to be hybrid roles in terms of tendering, design development and/or delivery. This subject to their knowledge, understanding and competence. The works area may be within the Midlands region however may also be within the wider United Kingdom. You will be accountable for project change control which shall include raising respective quotations.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Special Projects (Private Networks) Contracts Lead and Senior Tendering Engineer.
- Represent HVSS in a professional, timely and articulate manner, at all times, to all stakeholders.
- Ensure that all Special Projects tenders, 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 projects team.
- Proactively manage risk during the creation of the offering.
- Achieve your individual project tendering quantity goals together with any yearly sales target.
- Positively contribute the overall Special projects sales target.
- Maintain Sales/Project Handover specific documentation in line with the company’s BMS. • Maintain a Continual Professional development (CPD) strategy.
Experience & Qualities
Essential:
- A desire to succeed.
- 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.
- 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.
Desirable:
- Experience of tendering LV Industrial Electrical installation, EV charging and/or renewable energy solutions
- Experience of tendering Primary iDNO Substations and/or Grid connections or alike. • 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.
Perks & Commitments:
- Full Time, Permanent role
- Monday – Friday 8:30am – 17:00pm (40 hours per week)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays as standard
- Up to 3 extra days holiday for long service – 2 years +1, 5 years +1, 10 years +1 • 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
Company
HVSS, founded in 2010, are a privately owned company with an outstanding reputation amongst clients and the wider utilities industry. We have seen immense growth year on year, with offices located around the UK, we provide an innovative approach to our clients nationally. We offer services ranging from private high voltage connections and maintenance to multiple new connections across Electricity, Gas, Telecoms, Water and EV Charging. We strive to be market leaders and are looking for motivated individuals to join us on our journey and to be part of our bright future.
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