AddressWhittens is an Australian owned and operated multidisciplined civil construction company, proudly offering over 22 years' experience throughout Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.
With a growing reputation, we continue to partner with some of Australia's major Infrastructure and mining clients, specialising in the delivery of large scale and technically complex concrete construction, roadworks, earthworks, piping and NPI works projects.
Our mission, as an agile and people centric business, is to be the market leader in civil contracting, achieving sustainable growth through high performing people who safely deliver successful project outcomes for their clients.
Our Projects
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Bid Coordinator to join our team in our head office in Osborne Park. This is an excellent full-time opportunity for an experienced Bid Coordinator to work on a wide range of Civil construction tenders.
Reporting to the Executive Pre-Contracts Manager, this role is primarily responsible for the end-to-end tender process and production of professional bids for submission. You will provide co-ordination and administrative support to the Pre-Contracts team in the preparation of expression of Interests, estimates, tender submissions and other materials as required for business development.
Your Role
- Project management of tender responses including engaging with stakeholders in the business to support the bid development process
- Driving the bid process and managing the day to day bid timeline and deliverables
- Liaising with all internal teams to collate the relevant information
- Analysis and review of RFP documents to ensure submission requirements are clearly understood
- Leading bid kick-off meetings, reviews and driving the internal approval process in accordance with the tender gating process
- Managing post tender clarifications and activities and assisting with project handover upon award
- Bid writing of responses, including reviewing, and editing content provided by stakeholders
- Mentor and support Junior Bid Coordinator
- Identifying opportunities, improvements and solutions that will enable continuous improvement initiatives
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a similar role with strong proficiency in bid writing and bid management
- Minimum 5 years' experience working in construction, infrastructure or mining industry is highly desirable
- Background in Project Administration, Project QA Coordination, Project Purchasing/Logistics/ Civil Construction highly desirable
- Experience in document creation, writing, proofreading, and editing
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office including knowledge of PowerPoint, Visio and exposure to Adobe InDesign (desirable)
- Ability to operate under pressure in a fast paced, deadline driven environment requiring critical decision making and ownership
- Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality
- Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise tasks to meet tight deadlines
Whittens are committed to investing in our people, offering learning and development opportunities to build on the skills and experience you bring. With a strong pipeline of future works secured, you can be assured that there are opportunities beyond the current project to build your career with us.
- Generous and competitive salary package which is paid weekly
- Work amongst engaged leaders and collaborative teams
- High-performance supportive culture
- Safety being at the forefront of everything we do
- Eligibility for cash bonuses as part the employee referral program
- Discounted Health insurance
- Flexible Work conditions
- Long term permanent role and the opportunity to work on a range of projects across Australia
Please note that this role is being sourced through Whittens directly and we will not accept applications via external recruitment agencies.
