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Add expected salary to your profile for insightsVarley Group is an Australian company that has a rich history spanning over 138+ years. We have evolved into a highly successful, diverse, and multi-national engineering and manufacturing firm servicing a wide variety of major sectors including emergency service, defence, health care, cyber security, mining, marine, rail and more. Varley Groups network of subsidiaries includes: Norship, SEM Fire & Rescue, Air Boats International, EMC Electric Vehicles, IDES, Introspectus and Frame Group.Here at Varley, we strongly believe in these core valuesSafety - Maintain a safe and healthy workplace for all employees in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.Customer Focus - We provide the best customer service through open and honest relationships.Quality of Workmanship - We take pride in our work to ensure we provide high quality products, services and employees.Acceptance of Change - To adapt to changes in customer needs, technology and social media demands.Success - We secure continuing financial, technical and market success.With over 1,200 employees in the Varley Group, our company reputation is built on providing first-class work, manufacturing quality products, and providing unsurpassed service. It is our broad but specialised skills base, and employees that have a passion for doing a good job that gives us a competitive edge.The Role:We have a permanent position available for a motivated and talented Sales Estimator to join our Specialised Vehicles Division. This role will be responsible for preparing and submitting quotations, proposals and tenders for various specialised projects located at our Tomago site.This role will involve: Great opportunity to promote our high quality Varley products to a broad range of customers across many markets. Work alongside other Varley Vehicles departments Engineering, Supply Chain, Production to build your knowledge of our high quality products. Coordinate the preparation of compliant customer sales and tender submissions, quotes and bids on time to the required standards including all tender response documents Identify and review sales and tender opportunities, ensuring logging of all enquiries, due dates, actions and work required to prepare tenders / bids. Build, maintain customer and supplier relationships Participate in customer discussions to clarify performance aspects of tenders Able to negotiate with customers and suppliers to achieve the best business outcomes Able to Interpret engineering drawings and technical specifications to determine quantities and types of materials and / or components required Estimate quantities of and costs for materials and labour hours required Drive information gathering utilising budgets, historical data, past estimates, and business unit subject matter experts for analysis and compilation of costs estimates Provide cost saving and design alternatives to provide competitive project delivery Be involved in tender kick off, progress reviews and handover Participate in the handover of successful tenders to the project delivery team for execution Assist with project procurementTo be considered for this role you will: Proven ability to provide innovative, practical and cost effective solutions for manufacture Strong experience with Australian and International standards Previous practical experience within Engineering, Design, fabrication, mechanical/electrical trade, or construction related industry will be highly regarded. Thrive on solving problems and creating innovative solutions Enjoy a fast pace where thinking on your feet and managing multiple tenders energises you Be able to work independently and as part of a team Have excellent communication (both written and verbal) skills Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite of products in particular Outlook, Word and Excel Experience with CAD systems such as Autodesk Inventor (preferred but not essential)Why Us:With over 1,200 employees, our company reputation is built on providing first-class work, manufacturing quality products, and providing unsurpassed service. It is our broad but specialized skills base, and employees that have a passion for doing a good job that gives us a competitive edge. We are looking for employees that want to help us continue on this journey.Our people matter to us, so we provide: Variety of work on innovating and market leading projects Permanent Position Discounted access to the Fitness Passport giving you access to hundreds of fitness and sporting centres across Australia Opportunity for career development and encouragement to work across teams to build your skills and experience Access to our employee assistance programTo Apply:If this sounds like the role you are looking for, please send your resume and a cover letter outlining your experience. As part of the recruitment process of this role, a set of screening questions were emailed via our candidate application platform. These questions are designed to further understand your experience, career goals, and assess how they align with the requirements of the role.Please note that it is crucial to complete the screening questions to proceed with your application. Applicants who do not complete these questions will regrettably not be considered for further steps in the selection process. We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter and look forward to reviewing your responses.We know that diverse teams are high performing teams. At Varley Group, we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, and we are an Equal Employment Opportunity EmployerWould you like a copy of the job advertisement in an alternative format or need support with your application? Please contact us via recruitment@varleygroup.comUnlock job insightsSalary match Number of applicants Skills matchTo help fast track investigation, please include here any other relevant details that prompted you to report this job ad as fraudulent / misleading / discriminatory.Featured jobsHunter Pods Pty LtdThornton, Newcastle, Maitland & Hunter NSW12d agoNewcastle, Newcastle, Maitland & Hunter NSW3d agoAlfabs GroupKurri Kurri, Newcastle, Maitland & Hunter NSW12d agoResearching careers? 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