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Project Development Engineer

Job Posted: a day ago

Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Job Title: Project Development Engineer

Location: Home or office based (dependant on location) with site visits 

Salary: Competitive

Job type: Full Time - Permanent

The role:

To support our DC Projects team with detailed site surveys and accurately costed and well thought through technical solutions to deliver major renewal and upgrade projects into National Grid.

Why you're our kind of person:

We're not looking for people who sit down and say, 'that'll do', we're driven by doing the right thing for our customers. We operate in an agile fast paced environment, and we are always looking forward, improving, never settling, and wanting to be the difference for our customers. It's an exciting time to join the energy industry as we seek to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and our ambitions present a tremendous opportunity. We work hard to deliver, and there's a lot to do, but the ability to make an impact in our business is significant. So, if that resonates with you and you want to love our customers as we do then come join a team of like-minded people.

What good looks like:

Seamless: You'll provide high quality solutions to our customers
Specialist: You'll be skilled in your area, be an expert in a number of Dale processes and be commercially smart.
Collaborative: You'll advise your colleagues and input into other work and be able to work independently to get the job done.What you'll do:

Understand and translate the client requirements for DC battery renewal/upgrade project works into fully costed technical solutions, generally comprising a commercial offer, technical specification and equipment data sheets with estimated site installation durations.
Undertake detailed site surveys of all relevant DC equipment at customer sites to support the optioneering and tendering activities.
Prepare and submit comprehensive site visit reports, including findings and recommendations from the site surveys.
Use all available information to investigate and recommend best practice / spec compliant DC equipment renewal/upgrade solutions.
Attend client meetings both at site and via teams.
Produce RFQ's for sub-contract resources and manage through to costed proposals for inclusion in PMU & technical handover documentation.
Produce a cost make up/price make up (CMU / PMU) to reflect the client/contract requirements.
Produce supporting documentation as required by National Grid for contractual handover.
Support the National Grid Project team in the successful negotiations with the client, to agree acceptable pricing, technical details, commercial terms and conditions and technical content within the business guidelines and at optimised project profitability.
Communicate effectively to hand over successful project orders to the Project, Engineering, Manufacturing and Installation teams.
Provide technical support to the Project team throughout the delivery of the project to bring successful conclusion in accordance with the project requirements, including any scope fluctuations and to maximise the profitability.
Undertake other tasks as requested by the National Grid Project Manager.Person specification:

Qualifications & Experience;

Graduate, HNC/HND, or equivalent, in a suitable engineering discipline.
Working knowledge of health and safety general practices including CDM regulations and responsibilities.
Experience in developing high value projects, particularly in the power industry.
Commercial awareness.
High level of IT literacy and experience with spread sheets and word processing.Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Project Engineer, Design Engineer, Product Engineer, Process Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Engineering Project Manager, will also be considered for this role

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