Graduate Bid Manager 2021

“An exciting opportunity for an Apprentice or Graduate to join our work winning team in the North business regions, and develop your career in Bid Writing and Bid Management within the rail infrastructure maintenance industry. You will receive close mentorship and development from our expert Estimating and Pre-Contract team, giving you excellent career prospects in this area of work”.

Business Unit

A busy and fast paced region within our growing organisation, involved in a range of civil engineering works in a variety of sectors to include rail (bridges, embankments, stations, platforms, tunnels etc.), Environment Agency, Local Authority etc. The business units in the North are involved in multi-disciplinary civils projects, whether one off tendered projects or projects/remits within our long term framework / contract agreements with key clients.

Existing contracts include Network Rail reactive / planned maintenance and Infrastructure projects, Environment Agency, Highways and Local Authority frameworks with works typically including bridge re-construction/replacement, upgrades and refurbishments, railway station works, structures works, heavy civils, tunnels and footbridges.

The Role

As a Graduate/Apprentice in our Pre Contract team, you will play a key role in supporting the regional estimating and bid management team by providing support to the team whilst developing your own pre-contract and bid management skills.

As a Graduate/Apprentice, you will receive on the job training in writing tender responses for EOI, PQQ and Tenders. You will be involved day to day in undertaking research of clients, to ensure successful, high scoring responses are saved to the responses library for future re-use as well as ensuring that new responses are developed with other AmcoGiffen departments for Sustainability, Quality and Safety. In this role, you will be professionally mentored and developed to become a core, high performing resource in the Pre Contract department to allow succession planning as part of the long term plans for the team.

Assisting in bid writing and bid management of AmcoGiffen projects. This is an ideal opportunity for an Apprentice/ Graduate with a passion for and clear talent for ‘writing’.

Requirements

This is an ideal opportunity for an Apprentice / Graduate with ambitions of being involved in pre-contract work/work winning. Similarly, it is a fantastic opportunity for candidates looking to pursue apprenticeship opportunities in bid writing/management. Developing good creative writing skills and ability to interview other key staff to obtain information and articulate this into high quality written tender responses.

Essential Skills and experience required:

• Excellent written communication skills
• Ability to build personal and team relationships
• Good all round communication and presentation skills
• Good at analysis of basic numerical data in order to include and articulate with written responses
• Will require strong working knowledge and skill using MS Word, Excel and Power Point

The Company

You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit.

The Remuneration

• Competitive annual salary negotiable dependant on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension
• Life Insurance
• Westfield Health Cash Plan

About Us

AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence and waterways.

AmcoGiffen are an Equal Opportunities Employer and we offer challenging and worthwhile careers to everyone. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other  personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.

If you think you have what it takes to join the AmcoGiffen family, apply now!