Graduate Applications Engineer

at  Celeros Flow Technology

For over 140 years our products have helped ensure the safe, reliable operations of key industries. With a passion for precision and partnership, Celeros Flow Technology continues this heritage of high performance and dependability, providing mission critical, sustainable flow control solutions for our customers around the globe.
Celeros Flow Technology is looking for individuals with a voice and a vision. We embrace change, diversity and promote new ways of looking at old ideas. We seek talented professionals to join our world-class team of innovators in a global, collaborative & multi-cultural environment, where you will be challenged, supported, and inspired to be extraordinary.

GENERAL SUMMARY

Reporting to Regional Tendering Lead, the Applications Engineer role is both sales and customer facing, the performance directly influences the Company’s external relationships, hence the key to winning order opportunities. The purpose is to produce accurate and competitive tenders in accordance with our customers’ requirements and our internal policies and procedures to facilitate achievement of order input and margin targets. To produce competitive on-time tenders that are technically & commercially accurate as well as support regional sales on technical and commercial issues ensuring the optimum technical and commercial solutions are available for the needs of the customer.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Proficient in English language – both written and verbal
• Excellent communicator to bring common purpose to tasks and strategies
• Competence in Microsoft Office packages – Excel, Word, PowerPoint are prerequisites
• Organized, be able to manage multiple tasks professionally
• Good time manager, sets and meets deadlines and objectives
• Strives to meet all commitments and has a proven track record of meeting deadlines while maintaining high performance standards

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business or related field, or commensurate experience in a Commercial/Tendering organization required
• Experience of the market sector
• Experience of the centrifugal pump industry
• In-depth knowledge and experience in reviewing highly detailed specifications and writing comprehensive and accurate bids
• Able to Travel (Domestic and International)

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS)

• Provides tendering support to regional tendering and sales teams for win order strategies across the product lines to ensure all activities occur on time and with high quality from proposal receipt to handover
• Develop and submit detailed proposals ensuring they are delivered in a high quality, timely fashion in support of the ITO (Inquiry to Order) Tendering Policy & Procedure
• Review and evaluate detailed technical specifications for packaged equipment, extract applicable client requirements and translate/communicate specifications to subcontractors, sub-vendors and internal organization
• Obtain quotations for relevant bought-in equipment in accordance with latest Global Supply Chain requirements
• Liaise with the commercial team on customer needs, scope, and timing
• Ensures accuracy and completion of both e-Sales tender data and the Tendering front log and they are actively managed
• Work as a member of the Global Tendering Team to ensure KPI’s and Metrics are achieved
• An element of travel may be required to support customer visits during bid clarification/negotiation stages
• Support the coaching and development of Applications Engineers through feedback, instruction and guidance to help them develop skills and excel in their job responsibilities

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Required daily to stand, sit, walk, talk, hear, and see (specific close vision abilities are required to perform computer work)
• Required occasionally to stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl
• Required daily to use hands and fingers and arms to reach (to operate a computer and telephone)
• Required occasionally to lift and/or move objects that are light to moderate
• Required occasionally to travel (usually by air or road so may be required to sit for extended periods

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to work with moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers, etc.)
• Ability to work in an open planned office / individual office
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for extended periods
• Ability to sit in a car or on a plane for extended period