Pre-Sales Engineer

Job description

Description of the job

A vacancy for a Pre-Sales Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence & Space in Portsmouth. The successful applicant will join our Secure Communications group.

You will be responsible for supporting the entire Sales and Business Development department as the primary technical solution expert focussed on airborne and naval mobile satellite communications terminals. You will report into the Head of UK Pre-Sales.

The successful applicant will need to be eligible to gain UK SC Security Clearance to undertake the role.

Tasks & accountabilities

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

Pre-Sales Activities
1) Identify and capture customer's requirements.
2) Support bids and produce technical proposals which are tailored to the customer's requirements
3) Draw up systems level communication systems block diagrams or detailed drawings down to interfaces/connector level
4) Provide customer technical presentations and training on Airbus' capabilities
5) Keep abreast with new developments in state-of-the-art technologies and to feed this back into the organisation by either briefing or training the Airbus team

Marketing Support Activities
1) Build up necessary tools to assist the sales process such as a database of satellite coverage maps, technical handbooks etc.
2) To write technical or white papers describing Airbus's services and new platforms

Internal Resource Management Activities
1) Develop terminal solutions that make best use of Airbus products
2) Liaise with System Design Authorities to ensure our offers are technically correct.
3) Liaise with inter-departmental entities such as New Product Development to ensure our developments match the requirements of our customers

To technically advocate the prospect internally with the Engineering departments and to ensure that the prospect passes the design review/bid review process.

This role will involve occasional European travel for business and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Required skills

We are looking for applicants with the following skills and experience:
- A good technical background / understanding
- Ideally some experience in a communications engineering role (not essential)
- Ability to communicate technical detail to non-technical people
- Ability to work under pressure to deliver proposals on time
- Good business acumen

In return we can offer a competitive salary with annual profit share; an ever growing list of company benefits and strong career development options across our transnational, market leading company.
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
We value the strength that diverse perspectives bring to our business; if you require any reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the recruitment process please discuss this with the Recruitment Business Partner who contacts you.

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