Proposals Engineer

Are you passionate about being part of a successful team?

Are you passionate about providing commercial solutions?

Join our Baker Hughes team!

We deliver innovative, integrated, and secure engineered solutions for some of the most challenging critical process applications on the planet. With a global reputation for product excellence and dedicated customer service, we support power distribution and power network sectors with intelligent, engineering-led solutions and highly acclaimed technical services that they can rely on.

Partner with the best

As a Proposals Engineer, your main responsibility will be to effectively handle customer inquiries for BRUSH Power Generation Generators and related equipment. You will be responsible for managing these inquiries and ensuring successful outcomes for the markets and geographical segments assigned to the department. Acting as a representative for internal stakeholders, your role will involve supporting the sales team and meeting targets while maintaining a positive image for the company.

As a Proposal Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Effectively identifying and assessing the requirements of incoming enquiries within the remit of the role and ensuring appropriate action and feedback is given.

• Collating and evaluating the resource, material, third-party content, engineering, and production cost of tenders, ensuring appropriate approval and sign off has been obtained.

• Coordinating multiple business functions in both the UK and overseas to ensure deadlines are met, whilst ensuring an accurate, coherent proposal is submitted to the customer.

• Participating with Sales in discussions with the client.

• Minimising Company’s exposure to liabilities.

• Actively contributing towards continuous business and process improvement.

• Managing operational aspects of a technical and commercial tender, preparing documentation for handover to the projects team.

• Assisting other members of the department with their workload during periods of holiday, sickness or heavy overload.

• Handling standardized products with pre-defined options requiring simple client advice.  

Fuel your passion 

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a HNC in Business Management, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

• Have ability to demonstrate and / or show willingness to develop themselves as appropriate to the job role

• Have excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal

• Be highly computer literate with the ability to maintain accurate records

• Have good organisational skills and smart working methods. Ability to prioritise own workload and that of tender team where appropriate.

• Have knowledge of estimating principles, techniques, practices and different types of cost estimates

• Have some years of working experience in a commercial environment

• Have the right to work in the UK with a passport/work permit and not requiring future sponsorship

Work in a way that works for you 

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns: 

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit in everything in and work when you are the most productive 

 
Working with us 

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other. 
  

Working for you  

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input.  Join us, and you can expect: 

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities 

• Comprehensive private medical care options 

• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs 

• Tailored financial programs 

• Additional elected or voluntary benefits