Senior Tendering Engineer
Location: Hybrid / or Remote (with occasional travel to Wakefield office)
Employment Type: Full time
Working Hours: (Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week)
What’s in it for you…
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
24 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Option to buy up to 5 additional holidays
Group Personal Pension Plan
Career development & progression with the opportunity to earn professional qualifications
24/7 access to a virtual GP and Mental health support & counselling services
Cycle to Work scheme
Discount club - supermarkets, phone bills, gyms & more!
Life assurance cover
Long service recognition
Enhanced Maternity Pay
Paid volunteering opportunities in your community
About the role…
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Tendering Engineer to join our growing Major Projects Division
This is a key role responsible for leading the tendering process for a diverse range of high-value electrical infrastructure projects. You will play an integral part in delivering commercially competitive, technically compliant tenders while supporting the continued growth of our Major Projects business.
Typical projects include:
As a Senior Tendering Engineer you will
Prepare and manage multiple tenders, ensuring they are delivered safely, accurately, on time, and within budget.
Ensure all work complies with Ipsum Power Ltd standards, policies, procedures, and customer requirements.
Produce accurate cost estimates, quotations, and commercial submissions for major projects.
Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, including HASAWA, NRSWA, COSHH, and other applicable regulations.
Identify commercial opportunities and communicate these to Directors and Senior Managers where appropriate.
Produce front-end programmes for selected tenders using Microsoft Project or equivalent project management software.
Review completed projects to evaluate financial performance and delivery outcomes, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
Liaise regularly with your Line Manager to manage tender priorities and critical deadlines.
Produce comprehensive project handover packs and participate in formal handover meetings with Project Managers.
Work collaboratively with the Major Projects team to ensure the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of operations.
Share technical expertise, mentor colleagues, and contribute to the wider team's development.
About You
A Degree, HNC, or HND in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
Previous experience in a Senior Tendering, Estimating, or Pre-Construction Engineering role within the electrical utilities or power sector.
Experience producing project programmes using Microsoft Project.
Working knowledge of CAD software to produce site layouts.
A detailed understanding of current HV electrical jointing techniques.
Strong knowledge of HV electrical infrastructure, including 11kV–132kV projects.
Up-to-date knowledge of current legislation, statutory requirements, and industry best practice.
Good understanding of Health & Safety legislation, risk assessments, and safe systems of work.
Excellent commercial awareness with strong costing and estimating experience.
Experience working within a fast-paced, customer-focused, multi-disciplinary organisation
What We Offer
If you're an experienced Tendering Engineer looking to take the next step in your career and work on exciting, high-profile power projects, we'd love to hear from you.
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At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
