Applications Manager

DCC Energy GB is one of Great Britain's leading multi-energy businesses, providing fuel, LPG, renewable energy, mobility and energy services solutions to homes, businesses and public sector organisations across the country. Through a portfolio of trusted businesses including Flogas Britain, Certas Energy, DCC Mobility, Centreco, Next Energy, Equity Energies, Protech and DTGen, we support customers at every stage of their energy journey, from fuel and energy supply through to energy efficiency, renewable technologies and energy management services.

As part of DCC plc, we combine the strength of established market-leading businesses with a commitment to innovation, operational excellence and sustainability, helping customers navigate the energy transition while delivering long-term growth and value.

At DCC Energy Great Britain, our ambition is to become the most influential and respected energy transition company in the market. Through our market-leading businesses, including Flogas Britain, Certas Energy and Energy Management Services (EMS), we're helping customers navigate the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

• Applications Function Management
• Leading the day-to-day operation of the Applications function.
• Acting as the primary route into the team for requests from sales teams and operating businesses.
• Managing incoming demand across multiple businesses and technologies.
• Assessing priorities, workload and delivery timescales.
• Allocating opportunities across the Applications team.
• Maintaining visibility of active opportunities, team capacity and resource requirements.
• Escalating resource constraints, delivery risks and competing priorities where required.
• Ensuring opportunities progress through the agreed Applications process.

• Owning short and medium-term resource planning across the function.
• Forecasting workload and future resource requirements.
• Balancing workload across Applications Engineers and Specialist Applications Engineers.
• Coordinating specialist technical support and site survey resource.
• Identifying capability gaps and supporting recruitment planning.
• Working closely with the Director of Energy Products & Solutions to support business growth.

• Maintaining oversight of opportunities from initial enquiry through to approved proposal.
• Coordinating site surveys, technical modelling, concept design and proposal development.
• Managing pricing workloads and proposal deadlines across the team.
• Ensuring assumptions, commercial allowances, risks and supplier inputs are clearly documented.
• Supporting consistency across estimating methodologies, pricing structures and proposal outputs.
• Monitoring progress against agreed milestones and governance requirements.
• Coordinating engineering, delivery and specialist technical input where required.

• Planning and coordinating site survey activity across the Applications team.
• Allocating appropriate survey resource.
• Coordinating survey schedules with sales teams, operating businesses and customers.
• Improving standardisation of survey methods, processes and outputs.
• Ensuring surveys provide the information required to develop technically robust and deliverable solutions.

• Establishing and maintaining clear service expectations across the Applications function.
• Monitoring proposal turnaround times, workload and capacity.
• Developing practical KPIs and performance measures.
• Improving consistency and accuracy across pricing and proposal outputs.
• Identifying bottlenecks, recurring issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Providing regular reporting on workload, demand and team performance.

• Providing direct people management for the Applications team.
• Conducting regular one-to-ones, objective setting and performance reviews.
• Coaching and developing team members.
• Supporting career progression and training plans.
• Building a collaborative, accountable and high-performing team culture.
• Ensuring specialist expertise is retained while broader multi-technology capability continues to develop.
• Technical & Cross-Functional Coordination
• Working closely with the Lead Applications Engineer and Technical & Engineering teams.
• Ensuring appropriate technical governance is applied across opportunities.
• Coordinating technical reviews and specialist input when required.
• Acting as the operational interface…