Job description

We are seeking a Costing & Commercial Alignment professional to lead tender cost estimation, vendor quotation validation, structured cost database management, and team coordination while ensuring quality, competitiveness, and compliance with company standards.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or equivalent field with relevant experience.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in water and wastewater treatment systems.
• Senior-level role requiring self-driven initiative, technical leadership, and cross-departmental collaboration.
• Strong ability to evaluate vendor quotations and prepare accurate costing and budgetary estimates.
• Exposure to multiple industries including municipal, industrial, semiconductor, and chemical water/wastewater applications.
• Solid understanding of process equipment, instrumentation, piping, and valves used in water and wastewater systems.
• Capable of performing basic process design, equipment sizing, and technical evaluations.
• Skilled in differentiating technical options and recommending optimal solutions.
• Experience in developing and standardizing templates/tools (e.g., costing sheets) from scratch.
• Background in tendering, proposal engineering, or EPC project costing.
• Ability to work independently and liaise effectively with various departments.

Job responsibilities

1.Costing & Commercial Alignment

• Prepare cost estimates and pricing strategies aligned with the proposed treatment systems.

• Evaluate and validate vendor quotations to ensure alignment with tender scope, technical requirements, and commercial competitiveness.

• Establish and maintain a structured cost database, including benchmarking of equipment and system pricing.

• Develop and continuous maintain comprehensive costing templates and detailed cost breakdown structures for tender submissions.

• Develop and standardization of costing guidelines, tools, and best practices.

• Analyze cost variations across regions, including mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & control (E&IC), and site-related costs.

• Ensure competitiveness as and when the costing preparation and follow the guidance from the team in order to achieve the desired goal.

• Sourcing quotation for the piping, fitting, valves, equipment, and others equipment as needed in the proposal   offer within the region.

• Coordinate with Supply Chain/Procurement to obtain vendor price lists and updated market pricing.

• Prepare and issue RFQs to vendors in coordination within the teams.

• Monitor, review, and report cost fluctuations, risks, and optimization opportunities to superior on a regular basis (weekly to monthly).

2. Team Coordination & Quality Assurance

• Collaborate with Process lead / engineers to ensure accurate and competitive selection of materials, equipment brands, and technical specifications for cost estimation.

• Ensure clear scope definition and alignment across proposal and engineering teams during tender development.

• Coordinate internally to ensure all pricing inputs are accurate, consistent, and properly consolidated.

• Work closely within the teams to validate that vendor quotations comply with technical specifications.

• Liaise with Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, Fabrication, electrical and control and Project teams to enhance costing accuracy and maintain internal pricing databases.

• Ensure all deliverables comply with company quality standards, procedures, and governance requirements.

• Maintain effective communication with internal stakeholders and external partners throughout the tendering     process.

3. General Responsibilities

• Ensure all the work task is following the requirement in the QMS system.

• To follow all Group quality directives and input and suggest improvements where relevant.

• To follow the company’s policy to ensure as much project scope as possible is kept within the Group.

• Ensure all timelines are met for bidding submission and the task given.

• Participate in internal and client meetings related to proposals and project development.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives in costing processes and tools.

• Perform additional duties as assigned by management.

• Maintain effective communication with all internal and external relevant disciplines.

• Travel as required for project discussions, site visits, or client engagements.