Front End Engineering officer

The front-end engineering officer has the responsibility to support the valves quotation work and submitting the quotations to customers/ distributors in a timely and accurate manner. Reviews customer specifications and with customers requirements, offering suitable technical solutions and cost effective. Quote price and lead time to meet the customer s requirement following SBU rules for pricing and manufacturing plant lead time guidelines.

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Review customers request for quotations, analyzes specifications and propose suitable products design and solution for the application.
• Analyze costing, and build pricing
• Require and Participate pre-bid technical clarification meeting with customers
• Require and participate to technical clarification meetings with customers till complete and final technical alignment to customer specifications.
• Prepare technical Bid with Clarifications & Deviations liaising with other functions,
• Send and manage Request for Quotations (RFQ) to actuator manufacturers to complete automated valves quotations
• Send and manage RFQ for missing costing to complete competitive costing assessment
• Complete the whole valves and other variances costing evaluation / builds pricing following rules and in line with business strategy for product pricing
• Ensure Technical support and clarification to local Sales Office
• Manage Intercompany product quotation in compliance with Company and/or Business Unit Pricing Policies
• Translate the customer specifications into product information including commercial Bill Of Material and other documents creations;
• Receipt & Release of the order to manufacturing (Creation of Inspection and test plan, procedures, online entry of valve technical parameters)
• Participate to post-order technical meeting (i.e. Kick of Meetings) with internal functions to ensure consistency to agreed conditions.
• Be the point of reference for TQ s during post order contract review meeting.
• Support Internal Project Management team (IPM) with change order.
• Support and provide solutions to Procurement Department if cost estimations are not correct.

Who You Are:

You build partnerships and work collaboratively with other to meet shared objectives. You make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. You develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different customers. You build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. You relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in technical area, mechanical engineering is preferred.
• Fluent in English, one other language preferred.
• Preferred previous experience in the flow control industry with the ability to understand valve and actuation applications.
• good understanding of fluid mechanics, electro-mechanical equipment and metal physical/chemical properties.
• Knowledge of Pressure Equipment Directive (ASME, ANSI, API) standards, preferred.
• Able to read and understand technical specifications and literature
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills.
• Min 3 years of experience in O&G valves industry or similar (piping, piping equipment)

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• Able to travel in Belgium for 2 to 3 months for training