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GE Vernova

Builds equipment and software for electric power

Technical Proposals Manager

Proposal ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSchenectady, NY, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline is required.
  • At least five years of experience in power or wind projects, including tender preparation and/or project implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and negotiate wind turbine technical bids by analyzing customer inquiries, requests for quotations, and tenders to determine proposal requirements, scope of supply, and winning wind turbine configurations.
  • Provide matrix leadership of the technical team, including application engineering, environmental health and safety, product engineering, product line, and other technical disciplines, during proposal development.
  • Ensure technical proposals are high quality, well defined, and include applicable scope-of-supply options that position the company to win profitable orders.
  • Apply technical and commercial best practices and knowledge of competitors and market differentiators across team work products.
  • Support the sales team in closing orders by providing technical expertise, negotiation support, and timely responses to customer needs.
  • Participate in cycle-time reduction, proposal-quality improvement, and technical risk analysis and optimization activities.
  • Participate in weekly proposal risk reviews and own the technical risk review for each transaction.
  • Participate in order release from sales to project implementation and associated critical process steps.
  • Support functional reviews for forecasting, technical strategy development, technical risk management, technical issue resolution, technical leader tools development and deployment, simplification, growth, and lean initiatives.
  • Mentor less-experienced team members.
  • Serve as the main point of contact for technical issues within the commercial operations team.
  • Develop deep relationships with customers' technical teams to enable collaborative development of project pipelines.
  • Facilitate periodic customer touchpoints to enable two-way communication and feedback on technical and project-specific issues.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in process improvement and team leadership.
  • Experience working directly with customers, independent engineers, sales, engineering, product line, and project management teams.
  • Sensitivity to customer needs and awareness of market conditions.
  • Knowledge of wind turbine components, including gearboxes, blades, towers, and controls.
  • Knowledge of mechanical loads analysis and wind resource assessment processes.
  • Ability to manage high volumes of work at different stages of maturity and prioritize workload.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills and interpersonal and leadership skills.
  • Ability to analyze and resolve problems.
  • Ability to lead programs or projects.
  • Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs; established project management skills.
  • Fluency in English.
  • Willingness to travel away from the assignment location, primarily for customer meetings and negotiations.

About the Company

GE Vernova

Builds equipment and software for electric power

GE Vernova makes equipment and software that generate and manage electricity for utilities, power producers, and industrial customers. Its Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses span gas turbines, wind generation, and the systems that move electricity across grids. The company supplies generators, grid equipment, and controls, while its software coordinates network operations and integrates changing sources of power. Customers buy equipment and enter service agreements for maintenance, upgrades, and technical support over its operating life, alongside purchases of software and related services. GE Vernova became an independent company in 2024 after separating from GE and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
N/A
Total funding
$17.6M
Headquarters
Cambridge, MA
Founded
2024

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