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Salman Ali

Salman Ali

Runcorn,United Kingdom

Summary

Highly qualified proposal and tendering engineer with industry experience. Enjoy creative problem-solving and getting exposure on multiple projects, and I would excel in the collaborative environment on which your company prides itself.

Skills: Proposal/Bid Generation, MS Office, Excel, Business Process Improvement, Instrumentation Engineering, Project Management, Proposals, Peer Training. s.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work history

Customer service assistant

Asda Stores Limited
2023.01 - Current

From 31-01-2023 to 09-2024 (part-time work as a student)

From 09-2024 to present (full-time job)

  • Liaised with customers to gather requirements, ensuring product alignment with expectations and collaborating with technical experts to define product specifications.
  • Creating quotations and bid packages based on customer requirements.
  • Managed quote process, ensuring timely and accurate submissions through effective oversight of quote documentation and tools.
  • Complete formal quotation documentation and provide quote package to sales team.
  • Provide ROM quotes, business case calculations to internal and external sales teams.
  • Conducted cost analysis to evaluate project financials and identify budget requirements, developing cost models for informed decision-making.
  • Receive inputs from cross-functional teams to develop costing and understand technical challenges.
  • Negotiating with suppliers and clients.

Proposal and Tendering Engineer

SPEC ENERGY DMCC
Lahore
2020.01 - 2022.01
  • Ensured accurate, complete, and timely processing of RFQs, facilitating efficient proposal submissions.
  • Review assigned RFQs for Product, Delivery, Price, and Terms requirements.
  • Acquire Product knowledge required to respond to current and future Requests for Quote effectively and efficiently.
  • Submitted technical and commercial proposals to Oil & Gas companies, contributing to successful project bids.
  • Detailed electrical and instrumentation proposal submission of the project.
  • Recommended solutions for customer requests, coordinating with related teams to ensure comprehensive handling of production capability, scheduling, resourcing, quotes, price lists, and invoicing.
  • Keeping the customers proactively informed on the issue status based on the inputs received and clarifying their doubts.
  • Ensuring the resolution of customer issues by coordinating with Sales, Operations, Supply Chain Management, and other internal and/or external teams.
  • Preparing and analyzing regular statistics (e.g., forecast) using available tools and collecting additional relevant information and tracking regular sales performance against the target and sharing insights with the management.
  • Gained extensive experience working with electronic connectors, plugs, sockets, and distribution boxes in various projects.
  • Experience in the Oil & Gas industry with good technical knowledge of different industry segments.
  • Demonstrated strong skills in the use of Microsoft Excel.
  • Demonstrated excellent computer skills by effectively using Microsoft Office and AutoCAD for project design and documentation.
  • Develop optimized designs for proposed electrical equipment.
  • (OIL & GAS SERVICE PROVIDER), Lahore

Electrical and Instrument Engineer

Sapphire Electric Company (234MW combined cycle power plant)
Muridke
2015.01 - 2020.01
  • Installed, tested, and calibrated instruments for combined cycle power plant, ensuring optimal performance.
  • Worked on 6FA gas turbines integrated with Mark VI control system.
  • Worked on MARK VI E control system and Siemens’ distributed control system (DCS) SIMATIC PCS S7.
  • Worked on steam turbine of SCODA integrated with SIMATIC PCS S7.
  • Managed operations and maintenance of HRSG, bypass, and other BOPs via field DCS, enhancing system reliability.
  • Operation and maintenance of 132KV Switchyard Equipment’s, transformer, 11/6.6KV auxiliary transformer, circuit breaker, CT, PT , Capacitor banks, surge arresters.
  • Reviewed electrical and instrumentation drawings, ensuring accuracy for effective systems analysis and design.
  • Sapphire Electric Company (Power Generation Provider), Muridke

Education

M.Sc. - Electronic and Electrical Engineering

University of Chester
UK

B.Sc. - Electronic Engineering

University of Engineering and Technology Taxila
Taxila, Pakistan

F. Sc - Pre – Engineering

Punjab College of Science
Gujranwala, Pakistan

Matriculation - Sciences

Worker Welfare School
Peoples Colony, Pakistan

Skills

  • Customer requirement analysis
  • Proposal development
  • Cost analysis
  • Supplier negotiation
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Project management
  • Budget management
  • Technical documentation
  • Office applications
  • MS Project
  • Matlab 10 Simulink
  • PSpice
  • Xilinx
  • PLC Ladder software
  • Budget management

Internships

  • Gujranwala electric power company (GEPCO), Pakistan
  • Designation: Internee engineer Electronics.
  • Department: Power Generation and Distribution
  • From: June 2013 to September 2013
  • Planning & Preparing hardware & Software engineering database for the DCS projects for the power plant automation.
  • Monitoring of Panel installations, cabling & wiring work.

Timeline

Customer service assistant

Asda Stores Limited
2023.01 - Current

Proposal and Tendering Engineer

SPEC ENERGY DMCC
2020.01 - 2022.01

Electrical and Instrument Engineer

Sapphire Electric Company (234MW combined cycle power plant)
2015.01 - 2020.01

Matriculation - Sciences

Worker Welfare School

F. Sc - Pre – Engineering

Punjab College of Science

B.Sc. - Electronic Engineering

University of Engineering and Technology Taxila

M.Sc. - Electronic and Electrical Engineering

University of Chester
Salman Ali