For the last 40 years, we has been delivering advanced food production line solutions, equipment and after-sales care to the global food industry. Today we employ 120 people across two production sites and have designed, manufactured and installed food production line solutions for major blue chip food producers in 63 countries.
WE are proud to have a history of sustained growth and expansion. Our customer base extends across Australia, South Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America and we are continuing to expand into new markets every year. We believe the key to our success can be attributed to our employees who share our passion to succeed.
Why the role exists?
As part of the next stage of our development we are building up our Sales team and have an opportunity for a Proposals Engineer to help maximise the performance of our customers’ food processing equipment.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and technical professional who is looking to grow their career in a commercially focused, technical role.
Role Purpose
Technical and application support to the sales team and to ensure that we always sell the optimal solution for the customer
Responsibilities:
• Creation and delivery of compliant, professionally produced proposals within defined timeframes
• Responsible for ensuring proposal documents follow standard formatting and quality standards
• Preparing and reviewing the commercial aspects of the bid, ensuring all services are included in the final price to the customer
• Provide technical sales & application support to the Sales team
• Supporting the sales team on site visits as part of the proposal submission process
• Follow the defined process regarding producing costings and generating proposals information
• Promoting best practice for layout and content of all proposal submissions
• Preparing hand over documentation to project managers when the bids are successful
What we’re looking for:
• Ability to read and produce drawings using either SolidWorks and/or AutoCAD
• Degree educated (ideally in an Engineering discipline)
• Previous experience of working as part of an engineering or technical team is advantageous but not necessary
• Confident using Office 365 tools, especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Customer focused, with a passion for building strong relationships
• Strong written skills to produce technical specifications and quotations
• Ability to work under pressure to tight timescales and juggle multiple priorities
• Solid organisational skills including attention to detail
• Methodical working approach and comfortable with data & numbers
• The desire to continually learn and develop
Don’t feel you meet all the requirements above? Don’t worry! We’re still keen to hear from you. One of our company values is flexible and when it comes to considering candidates who don’t tick every box, we are open-minded. You may have other unique and relevant qualities you could bring to the role, and we offer the opportunity for training and development.
