Fan System and Ventilation Engineer

Ensuring Charts success:

Howden a Chart Industries Company is a global engineering business that focuses on providing clients with industrial products that help multiple sectors improve their everyday processes. Howdens core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling and have over a century of experience in doing so.

Howden MEA Projects Division (covering the African and Middle East regions) is looking for an experienced Specialist in the field of fan station and ventilation systems design. This position is responsible for preparing innovative and competent technical solutions and tenders in the marketing and sales of turnkey projects. Provide competent ventilation solutions to mining and industrial customers with an aim to add value to the customers infrastructure and development needs.

What will you do

• Engineering: Effectively engage customers with applications enquiries. Perform fan station designs and fan selections based on customer specifications. Understand all customer requirements and specifications clearly as received with enquiries. Prepare well written and presentable tender documents inclusive of all tender returnable documents. Lead each applications opportunity through the process of tender to order. Drive accurate forecasting of opportunities in the business and ensure customer feedback is always captured and add value to customer engagements.
• Documentation: Pre-engineer fan system designs and generate fan curves suitable for selections made and to meet customer specifications. Engage with the legal and commercial departments with the objective of mitigating risks while satisfying client contractual expectations to secure orders. Generate a budget document suitable for project execution. Accurate tender programs and organograms to define full scope and overhead requirements within the shortest possible lead times.
• Engineering Support: Engineering support during the tendering phase. Run a collaborative design process with the engineering team to ensure the best solution and scope of supply are clearly defined checked and tested. Assist the engineering team with the latest market and engineering trends to save on cost design and time.
• Project Management: When required act as project manager for various projects to ensure relevant projects meet agreed standards and is delivered within an agreed timeframe.
• Customer relations: Develop customer relationships to promote the Howden and Chart products and services with a view to introducing enhancements to existing equipment. Work towards early customer involvement by becoming a partner through their respective planning phases by regularly meeting up high level project teams from Customers (end-users) Project Houses EPCs and consulting firms.
• Managing Tenders: Adhere to the tender process (enquiry risks contracts costs and submission of documents) to be accomplished in line with client specifications and in accordance with Howden standards.
• Marketing: Contribute to the effective marketing of company products and technologies to ensure the conversion of a tender into a sale conducted in accordance with company procedure.
• Compliance: SOX Compliance: Adhere to Sarbanes Oxley and AX controls.

Your Experience Should Be

• A tertiary qualification in Mechanical Engineering (B-Tech B-Eng or BSC Eng).
• Membership of a reputable engineering body such as ECSA and/or SAIMechE is an added benefit.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Excel Word Outlook PowerPoint Projects and AutoCAD
• Minimum 3 years experience in a mining or industrial sales environment with Mine Ventilation Engineering experience.
• Exposure to multiple disciplines of Engineering and the ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and CFD studies
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Working knowledge of standard contracting methodologies preferably NEC & FIDIC.
• 2 years experience in a project management environment and/or tender preparations

Our Benefits Package

Howden provides a great benefits package in addition to an attractive salary. The Company also offers the opportunity to work in an exciting fast-paced environment within a global engineering company.