Tender Engineer

Working at Boskalis is about creating new horizons and sustainable solutions. In a world where population growth, increase of global trade, demand for (new) energy and climate change are driving forces, we challenge you to make your mark in finding innovative and relevant solutions for complex infrastructural and marine projects.

Within Boskalis, the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Business Unit plays a key role in shaping and enhancing coastlines, ports, and waterways across the region. With decades of dredging expertise, we deliver sustainable solutions for land reclamation, port construction, coastal protection, and capital & maintenance dredging.

Our dredging operations focus on providing integrated solutions – from detailed tender designs and cost estimations to project execution – using advanced Cutter Suction Dredgers (CSDs), Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHDs) and other specialized equipment.

Projects span across strategic areas in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman, including land reclamation for new urban developments, deepening of shipping channels, and the creation of breakwaters and jetties.

Working for Boskalis' Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Business Unit means contributing to iconic maritime infrastructure projects and being part of a global leader known for creative, efficient, and sustainable dredging solutions.

Make your mark as Tender Engineer for the Business Unit Middle East. As a Tender Engineer you have the opportunity to make a major contribution. You support the Tender Manager, Desk Manager and Commercial Managers or work standalone (smaller projects), in developing and communicating the strategy for each Boskalis tender proposal. You perform the final check on quality and completeness of the proposal document to guarantee it meets both client's and Boskalis' standards. This means you have a direct impact on Boskalis Business

In this role, your workplace will be our office in Abu Dhabi, from where you will provide support to our tender team.

Your responsibilities as a tender engineer

• Primarily focus on dredging and reclamation projects in the Middle East region, particularly countries such as the UAE, Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
• Review tender documents and draft summaries to support the commercial team in developing the strategy, planning and proposal documentation, and identify information deficits.
• In close collaboration with the desk team in The Netherlands develop, coordinate and write the proposed work methods, and the overall bid deliverables together with supporting department.
• You will liaise with subcontractors and partners.
• You are responsible for the final check on the quality and completeness of the proposal documentation before submitting to the client.
• You will develop and maintain a good working relationship with our client counterpart, communicate any clarifications and submit the proposal in accordance with client requirements.
• Support bid submissions by means of proper document control.

Your qualities 

You can make your mark as a tender engineer if you will have:

• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in tenders and/or with operations preferably in Dredging or Offshore Energy Market.
• Familiarity with key clients in the Dredging market such as:
  
  - Land developers
  
  - Port operators
  
  - Oil&Gas operators
• A finished Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil Engineering, preferably with a dredging industry background, supported by relevant courses and certifications
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• A teamplayer mentality with focus on clients needs, common goals and want to join the continuous learning cycle.

What you can expect 

• Career opportunities: We challenge you every day to get better. Together we realize your full personal and professional career by creating development opportunities.
• Warm welcome: We warmly welcome our new colleagues, so they feel at home as soon as possible. During your online onboarding program, we give you all the ins and outs of Boskalis
• Career development: Plenty of opportunities to realize your full potential. Challenge yourself with (online) courses in our Boskalis academy.

Extra information 

• Your team:  You are part of a team of Tender Managers, Proposal Engineers, Project Engineers and Cost Engineers, with different nationalities. The team is characterized by their informal yet professional way of working together, flexibility, adaptability, and work hard play hard mentality.
• Full/part-time job: The function of Proposal Engineer is a fulltime position.
• Procedure: All you need to do to apply for a job is to complete the online application form and send it to us along with your CV and cover letter. As soon as you have sent your application, you will receive a confirmation email. Depending on the job, we will invite you for two or more interviews via Microsoft Teams or at our office. If both sides are happy to proceed after interviews, we will make you an offer to join Boskalis. After successfully completing all the steps in the procedure, we warmly welcome you to our organization.

We'll be happy to answer your questions about the position of tender engineer. Please contact Catherine Buenaagua, corporate recruiter via our careers page.

Interested? Please apply by filling in your details and by uploading your cover letter and CV on our careers site. 

Disclaimer for recruitment and selection agencies

We appreciate your interest in our vacancies and understand that your candidate might be enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. However, our recruitment process is not structured this way, at Boskalis we handle recruitment ourselves. Therefore we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies. Any submission will be treated as a direct application.

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