Local Employment: Junior Contracts Engineer

Based at Gore Cross Business Park in Bridport, this is a permanent, full time position with Ackerman Engineering Ltd.

Job description:

Reporting to the Contracts Engineer Manager, The Junior Contracts Engineer will:
  • Work with the customer contracts team and deal with incoming enquiries.
  • Develop new customers and build a portfolio of repeat order business.
  • Ensure quotations and orders are allocated/ processed efficiently and professionally to achieve continued customer satisfaction.

Scope:

This role is suited to a junior manufacturing engineer that has ambition to develop their career into a contracts engineering role. A training plan will be in place for the suitable candidate to initially spend time working between the factory and office. It will be essential to gain experience and to fully understand all of the manufacturing disciplines that Ackerman Engineering facilitates.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Supporting the contracts team, dealing with incoming enquiries, providing accurate quotations.
  • To obtain a correct understanding of customer requirements.
  • To prepare quotation responses in accordance with the established procedures for investigation, design, costing and presentation.
  • To ensure that documentation received for orders/enquiries is sufficiently Informative and detailed to allow efficient processing.
  • Providing technical and commercial support to customers.
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships, demonstrating continuous commitment to customers focus.
  • Communicating internally with purchasing, quality and production departments. Knowledge, skills and personal qualities required

Essential:

  • Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate clearly at all levels
  • Computer literate
  • Positive, motivated, can-do attitude
  • Energy to increase the capability to deliver and improve business results,

Desirable:

  • Driving Licence, to be able to visit customers in the future
  • Formal engineering qualifications
  • Experience working for a sub contract manufacturer
  • Entry level contract engineering experience

Hours: Monday – Thursday 08:00 – 17:00, Friday 08:00 – 13:00

Telephone: 01308 422185 or email: sales@ackerman-eng.com

Ackerman Engineering are a 5th generation family owned Dorset UK company. Established in Bridport in 1885, today they fabricate utilising the very latest in sheet metal working machinery and CadCam simulation techniques.

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