Mane Contract Services
Quality Bids & Proposals Coordinator
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Quality Bids & Proposals Coordinator
Location: Ampthill, Bedfordshire
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 (flexibility for exceptional candidates)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Working Pattern: 4xFlex (Monday-Thursday)
Security Clearance: BPSS to start, SC Clearance required
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Quality Engineer or Quality Assurance professional looking to move into a commercially focused role. You'll play a key part in ensuring quality requirements are fully understood, accurately costed and incorporated into competitive, compliant bids for complex defence programmes.
Working closely with Business Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Programme teams, you'll ensure that quality obligations, risks, resources and compliance activities are identified before contract award, helping to set programmes up for success from the outset.
Key Responsibilities
- Review customer specifications, drawings and contractual requirements to determine the quality scope of work.
- Develop and maintain Quality Basis of Estimates (BOEs), ensuring quality activities are accurately planned, costed and resourced.
- Work with Quality Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to validate labour hours, inspection requirements and delivery approaches.
- Identify and document quality assumptions, dependencies and exclusions within bid documentation.
- Assess quality-related risks and opportunities, supporting mitigation plans and bid risk reviews.
- Identify any additional tooling, equipment, certifications, training or specialist resources required to deliver customer requirements.
- Represent the Quality function during bid reviews, approval boards and proposal sign-off activities.
- Maintain and continuously improve Quality bid templates, response libraries and reusable proposal content.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality requirements align with manufacturing capability and business objectives.
- Ensure all proposed quality activities comply with customer, regulatory and company quality standards.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Background in Quality Engineering, Quality Assurance or Manufacturing Quality.
- Experience supporting bids, tenders or proposals within Defence, Aerospace or another highly regulated industry.
- Good understanding of AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical specifications and customer requirements.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong organisational, planning and coordination abilities.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Desirable Skills
- Experience developing Basis of Estimates (BOEs) and resource plans.
- Knowledge of First Article Inspection (FAI) and APQP methodologies.
- SAP or equivalent ERP/MRP system experience.
- Internal or Lead Auditor qualification.
Key Attributes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Highly organised with strong planning and time management skills.
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple functions.
- Proactive in identifying risks, opportunities and process improvements.
- Comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Working Pattern
- Based at the Ampthill site.
- 4-day working week (Monday-Thursday).
- Primarily site-based, with flexibility depending on business requirements.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills