What are the responsibilities and job description for the Proposal Engineer position at FLSmidth & Co. A/S?
FLS, a global leader in products and solutions for the mining industry, is looking for a team-oriented individual to assist our proposal management team for our North American Region Service Execution team. Every great service project begins with properly determining and detailing the service requirements.
The Proposal Engineer's main function is to interpret the customer's expectations into a series of tasks and resources associated with the cost of completing these tasks and offer a comprehensive solution to the customer.
The role interacts with multiple levels of external and internal stakeholders as well as resources.
Responsibilities :
- Visit customers and job sites to promote services, perform work site inspections, collect field measurements, attend customer meetings and evaluate bid request information to develop scopes of work (including sub-contractors), cost and resource estimates, project schedules and prepare service offers and scope clarifications
- Analyze customers' needs and confirm the job scope with customer and regional sales managers
- Receive and process customer requests
- Create job scopes where required, estimate job schedule and resources cost and produce proposal.
- Facilitate commercial negotiations including terms
- Follow up on service opportunities with customers and / or collaborate with regional sales managers
- Drive business growth by creating new opportunities by interacting with customers
- Perform project forensic analysis to facilitate improvement of estimates
- Receive and process customers' purchase orders, ensuring they comply with proposal terms
- Working with Legal, Safety and Quality departments to meet industry and customers' expectations.
- Hand over clear and complete project data to execution team and assist with identifying scope variances when necessary
- Accurately log proposal data into company systems
- Comply with company's policies.
Requirements :
What we offer
FLS is dedicated to growing and supporting a diverse workforce. Mining technology impacts everyone, and that's why we need individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and capabilities contributing to our future.
Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted through email.
FLSmidth is the leading supplier of technology and service solutions to customers in the mining and cement industries - for more information please visit FLSmidth.com / careers
