Bid Manager, Engineering

Part of the Volker Wessels UK Group, Volker Stevin is an industry-leading civil engineering business, providing complex and innovative engineering solutions across a wide range of sectors including maritime, flood risk management, defence, energy, water and regeneration.

The Bid Manager will be responsible for tendering new civil engineering work within the UK focusing on Marine, Costal, Flood Defence and Water sectors. The successful candidate will be a part of a leadership team preparing tenders varying size from £2m to £100m overseeing the estimation, tender design, commercial, programme and quality submissions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage and Co-ordinate Northwest based bid team
• Develop tender winning strategies:
  • Quality
  • Price
  • Commercial
• Commission and manage tender designs
• Evaluate design options and determine winning solutions
• Manage tender programme and budgets resolving critical issues
• Develop working methods, evaluate alternatives and determine winning solutions
• Understand and analyse competitors
• Ability to develop multidisciplinary programmes
• Manage multiple priorities and teams
• Present solutions to clients and senior managers
• Pursue, builds and maintains strong relationships within the industry
• Compare and analyse competitive subcontractor and supplier bids
• Research technologies / project background

About You

• Requirements:
  • Degree in Civil Engineering or similar
  • Excellent logical written and verbal communication skills
  • Min 5 years’ experience (site management)
  • Travel is required
  • Excellent IT skills in Word, Excel, Power Point
  • Home Office – Preston

If your past experience doesn’t match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.

We Offer a Range Of Benefits, Including

• Competitive salary
• Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
• Option to buy additional annual leave
• Private medical care
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
• Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
• Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mental health, physical health, and financial support
• 24/7 Virtual GP service

Fairness, inclusion and respect

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, Volker Wessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.