Title: Tender Engineering Assistant
London (Sutton), GB
What will you be doing?
Tender Assistant supports Tender Technical Lead in controlling tender technical documentation and supporting technical teams working on Tenders in providing good quality technical deliverables by utilising the existing process, guideline, and tutorials to all tenders.
- Organise meetings with the technical lead to discuss documentation requirements, set up Tender Document Register (TDR), and put the process in place.
- Create and maintain the ETS SharePoint sites, permission group, and process.
- Maintain interface with GPC (Global Project Centre) regional engineers to ensure process is understood and followed.
- Give relevant Tender Team access to Engineering Support to Tender SharePoint (ETS).
- Ensure relevant tender technical team is competent using the ETS.
- Ensure all required metadata are entered in TDR and ETS to enable successful use of the process and document tracking.
- Create and manage weekly PowerBi reports.
- Maintain and apply Power Automate workflows on each ETS Sharepoint.
- Set-up Tender IPE platform directory.
- Liaise regularly with Tender Technical Lead and Tender Technical Manager as necessary to discuss any delays and subsequent reforecasting of deliverables.
- Process client deliverables in accordance with tender procedures, and/or tender or SIA requirements if these take precedence over Subsea 7 processes.
- Set up a consistent format and checklist for client deliverables to ensure all Engineering Tender Controllers can work between tenders in a standard format.
- Assist Engineers as required with document formatting and ensure template metadata is working correctly; reporting any errors to Tender Technical Lead and Tender Technical Manager.
- Ensure client deliverables are issued in a controlled manner, well formatted, stored, signed, and within agreed timescale.
- Prepare the structure and necessary technical documents templates at the beginning of the tender. Client deliverables templates to be approved by the tender core team.
- Generate weekly TDR progress report to Technical Lead, Commercial Lead, SCM Lead and copy to Tender Technical Tender
- Liaise with technical lead and engineers at tender close-out, i.e perform housekeeping in working area and technical deliverables libraries.
- Archive Engineering Support to Tender Sharepoint as required
- Aware of the overall tendering process and follow up when the process is not understood/ followed. Highlight to technical lead or Tender Technical Manager as required.
- Create and maintain Team channels, and permissions.
- Take initiative to propose and develop the current process to take benefits from the latest IT technology to be efficient.
- Discuss with Tender Technical Manager about any difficulties, problems, and possible solutions.
- Maintain and develop different types of tools to improve the process.
- Together with the Tender Technical Manager, continuously improve the existing process and overall template for the Engineering Tender Sharepoint.
What experience would we like you to have?
- Demonstrates excellent IT skills.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft 365 products and in particular in-depth knowledge of Sharepoint 365 and Teams.
- Confident formatting documents within Microsoft Word
- Ability to work under pressure and process documents within a tight time frame
- Can use own initiative to solve problems
- Relevant experience of document control in an engineering context.
- Communicates effectively at all levels.
- Good organisational skills, organised, and rigorous.
- Demonstrates positive attitude and flexibility in work approach.
- Works well independently with minimal supervision and accepts accountability for successful delivery of document control targets.
- Works effectively as part of a team.
- Fluent in English, written and spoken. #LI-AB1