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Quality Bid & Proposal Specialist
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Quality Bids & Proposals Coordinator
Ampthill - Bedfordshire
Paying up to £60,000 (DOE)
Please note - Due to the nature of the work, you’ll be required to hold or be eligible to obtain a high level of UK Security Clearance.
Overview:
As the Quality Bids & Proposals Coordinator, you’ll be responsible for coordinating all Quality-related activities during the bid and proposal process, ensuring customer requirements are accurately understood, costed, planned and incorporated into compliant, competitive proposals.
Key Responsibilities
- Review customer requirements, specifications, and drawings to determine the quality scope of work.
- Develop and maintain Quality Basis of Estimates (BOEs), ensuring quality activities are accurately costed and resourced.
- Liaise with Quality SMEs to validate labour hours, inspection requirements, and delivery approaches.
- Identify and document quality-related assumptions, dependencies, and exclusions within bid documentation.
- Assess and record quality risks and opportunities, supporting mitigation planning and bid risk reviews.
- Identify any additional equipment, training, certification, tooling, or specialist skills required to fulfil the contract requirements.
- Represent Quality during bid reviews, approval boards and sign-off activities.
- Maintain and continuously improve the Quality bid response library, standard templates and reusable proposal content.
- Support cross-functional bid teams to ensure quality requirements are aligned with operational capability and business objectives.
- Ensure all proposed quality activities comply with customer, regulatory and company quality requirements.
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Required Experience
- Background in Quality Engineering, Quality Assurance, or Manufacturing Quality.
- Experience supporting bids, tenders or proposals within a defence, aerospace or highly regulated industry.
- Working knowledge of AS9100 and quality management systems.
- Ability to interpret technical specifications, drawings, and customer requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and organisational skills.
- Experience developing Basis of Estimates (BOEs) and resource plans.
- Knowledge of First Article Inspection (FAI) and APQP methodologies.
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP systems.
- Internal or Lead Auditor qualification.
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