Job Description Summary
Vernova Purpose
GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Are you excited by the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world?
What impact you’ll make
As a member of the Aeroderivative Engineering team, you will be responsible for leading the technical execution of bids and proposals, ensuring alignment with customer requirements, business objectives, and industry standards. This role involves managing the tendering process, overseeing technical evaluations, and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver competitive and compliant proposals.
Job Description
What you’ll do
- Manage and oversee the technical aspects of tendering, ensuring all proposals are optimized for performance, cost, and risk mitigation.
- Oversee costing, risk assessment, and technical feasibility for bids, ensuring alignment with business and customer expectations.
- Review and interpret customer specifications, scope deviations, grid codes, and local compliance standards, ensuring all proposals meet regulatory and technical requirements.
- Drive technical solution development in collaboration with Sales, Applications Engineering, Performance Engineering, Sourcing, and Product Development teams.
- Ensure optimization of product configurations and package customizations while mitigating risks
- Conduct cost estimations, technical feasibility assessments, and risk analyses to support competitive and executable project proposals.
- Define and optimize Gas Turbine Generator (GTG) package configurations, identifying customizations and value-engineering opportunities to enhance customer solutions.
- Collaborate with Sales, Commercial, and Engineering to ensure preferred configurations are embedded in theITO process.
- Act as a technical interface, providing pre-sales support, engaging with customers, suppliers, and internal teams to drive alignment and proposal success.
- Work closely with broader engineering teams (Applications Engineering, Performance Engineering, Requisition Engineering, and Product Development), as well as Commercial, Sales, and Business Development teams to optimize technical solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement in tendering processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and competitiveness.
- Act as a key liaison between engineering, commercial teams, suppliers, and customers, ensuring a smooth flow of technical information and alignment across all stakeholders.
- Support negotiations with customers and stakeholders by providing technical insights and justifications.
- Ensure seamless and high-quality project handovers from ITO (Inquiry-to-Order) to OTR (Order-to-Remittance), focusing on execution efficiency, risk management, and minimizing project uncertainties.
What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, or related field); Master’s degree is a plus.
- 5-8 years of experience in technical execution of bids and proposals for power generation or industrial systems.
What will make you stand out
- Strong knowledge of technical specifications, system configurations, and industry standards.
- Experience with cost estimation, risk assessment, and competitive proposal development.
- Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams (Engineering, Sales, Commercial, and Supply Chain).
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience in risk management for tendering processes.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven leadership in managing cross-functional teams (Engineering, Sales, Supply Chain) to deliver high-quality bids.
- In-depth technical expertise in power generation systems or gas turbines, ensuring technical accuracy and customizations.
- Strong risk management skills to assess and mitigate potential project challenges in the tendering process.
- Ability to develop innovative solutions that meet customer needs while optimizing cost and performance.
- Exceptional customer communication skills, translating complex requirements into clear, valuable proposals.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the end-to-end tendering lifecycle, from bid preparation to proposal submission.
- Track record of process improvements in the tendering process, enhancing efficiency and competitiveness.
- Results-oriented approach with a history of delivering impactful proposals that align with business goals.
- Experience collaborating with senior leadership to align tendering strategies with overall business objectives.
About GE Vernova Gas Power
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. It is a global leader in gas turbines and power plant technologies and services with the industry’s largest installed base.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
