Contracts Engineer

 As a Contracts Engineer, you will primarily manage customer orders from order receipt until despatch and be the key business contact for the customer and all matters throughout the life of the contract. You will also participate in the construction of sales quotations and technical proposals to support the sales team

What you'll be doing

• Capture customer technical and commercial requirements to develop a specification for the product.
• Update and maintain the business management system to record the important elements of the project: export control requirements, delivery requirements, revenue, margin and product details.
• Use proprietary design software to generate calculations describing bearing performance and transmitting these to the customer.
• Assemble the component prices for standard product and calculate the estimated works cost based upon price list, previous cost performance and comparative estimation in order to produce a quotation.
• Liaise with the estimating team to develop price estimates for non-standard applications and use the information generated to produce a quotation.
• Liaise with sales & marketing colleagues to determine marketplace price levels and seek the appropriate approval to quote.
• Carry out initial review of terms & conditions of contract where these are dictated by the customer.
• Establish lines of communication directly with customers or via appointed commercial advisors as appropriate.
• Contract negotiation.
• Define and satisfy the requirements for export licence control compliance as required.
• Project management of the contract, order acceptance, establishing budgets, timescales, quality requirements and monitoring thereof, including real-time updating of the business management system.
• Detailed technical and commercial specification review in order to develop a pack of information used to communicate the contract requirements internally in the business.
• Monitor sales orders during the life of the contract and liaise with the customer on any contract amendments, notices, costs, implications and to appraise on progress as required by the contract.
• Visiting customers as and when required.
• Compliance with departmental & company procedures whilst tendering & processing orders.
• Other duties which the incumbent is competent to perform at the request of the Commercial Manager.

Who we're looking for

If you are time served, hold a recognised mechanical engineering qualification (ideally HNC or above), we'd love to hear from you!

Knowledge and experience of project management, export licence control and good understanding of contractual terms and conditions will be highly advantageous.

You will have Knowledge of mechanical equipment and the associated applications, ideally for rotating equipment.

We ask that you have Computer literacy (business systems and Microsoft Office suite), good written and verbal communication skills, good organisational and time management skills, a high standard of numeracy, accuracy and attention to detail.

We would also like you to be flexible, adaptable, capable of working under pressure to meet deadlines, be able to work on own initiative as well as being a good team player.

Benefits

• Wellbeing app (Employee Assistance Program)
• Holiday buy & sell
• Car scheme
• Competitive pay
• Enhanced pension
• Training & development

This vacancy falls under our refer a friend scheme. If a current British Engines employee has told you about this vacancy, please include this in your application.

Employment is subject to a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check.

The role is based on a 37-hour working week operating on a three-shift pattern.