At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know that to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver new innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential.
To continue with our growth plans for 2025 and beyond we are searching for a Senior Proposals Engineer to join our Pre-Construction team in our Pre-Contract department, based in the Central team for all current Water Frameworks.
Reporting to the Central Proposals Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary teams working on the development of technical solutions and commercial proposals to enter agreeable contracts for potable water treatment, sewage treatment and bioresources projects, considering sustainability and carbon footprint of optimum and competitive solutions. As a Senior Proposals Engineer, you will be responsible for a portfolio of future projects (directly allocated or competitively tendered) that need to be secured by means of agreeable contracts. Your role will involve:
Client Management:
- Fostering and developing positive client working relationships that enable efficient identification of project solutions leading to successful contract agreement.
- Managing Client and stakeholder expectations in relation to time, cost and quality of the production of proposals and Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) deliverables.
- Accountability for the successful delivery and fulfilment of ECI orders, working closely with other departments and the client to communicate progress and facilitate acceptance of proposed solutions.
- Driving effective contract negotiations that meet the technical and organisational governance requirements, as well as having an acceptable risk profile that is approved by the business, in a timely manner.
- Attendance at sites and client offices as required in relation to the development of proposals relating to projects and programmes of work.
- Obtaining client feedback and integrating lessons learned to future projects as part of driving continuous improvement of tenders.
Develop Solutions/Tenders/Proposals:
- Identify, document and communicate the client project requirements to enable the teams to develop project solutions.
- Actively lead multidisciplinary teams to provide competitive tenders that meet client’s requirements.
- Ensure solution options address client drivers, affordability, design constraints, planning constraints, sustainability, are constructible, including pre-planned procurement, and consider operations and maintenance requirements, including commissioning of the solution.
- Assess the value and impact of acquiring additional data if gaps or deficiencies are identified in client/consultant provided Pre-Construction Information.
- Coordinate engagement from the regional Engineering, Estimating, Operations, Planning and SHEQ teams to assure the viability and deliverability of project proposals.
- Accountability for tenders/proposals to meet all governance and quality assurance requirements in line with company procedures and processes/systems.
- Accountability for tenders/proposals to have a high degree of business confidence on scope, cost, programme and risk profile in line with the regional and business strategy.
- Coordinate the business legal, technical and commercial teams’ inputs into the proposed client Works Orders to clarify the project scope, define an agreeable risk profile and enable timely contract execution.
Support Department development and administration:
- Collaborate with the Pre-Contract Manager to identify, plan and acquire the departmental resources needed for the solution development and proposals preparation that respond to the demands of the Framework portfolio of work. This includes preparing tender budgets for projects under your control.
- Line management duties, ensuring team progression, development and wellbeing.
- Responsible for proposals to be delivered within the agreed timescales and tender budget.
- Contribute to the department cost and budget reporting.
- Assist with department performance reviews and identifying areas of improvement.
- Collaborate with the Pre-Contract Manager and others to identify innovative ways of work.
- Obtain and communicate business feedback from project delivery in relation to performance against tender budget and programme.
- Support continuous improvement of the solutions process and team.
- Integrate innovations and lessons learned to realise efficiencies in projects and in team performance.
About The Candidate
You are a natural leader, providing line management for the team, and can confidentially manage activities to achieve efficient outputs to ensure quality procedures are followed, mitigating risk where necessary.