Roles and Responsibilities
Main point of contact for technical issues within the commercial operations team.
Wind turbine technical bid development and negotiation. Owns the technical analysis of customer inquiries RFQs or tenders to determine proposal requirements scope of supply and winning wind turbine configurations. Matrix leadership of technical team including application engineering EHS product engineering product line and all other technical disciplines for proposal development.
Accountable for ensuring high quality well defined technical proposals and deliverables that include applicable scope of supply options to position GE to win profitable orders.
Has in-depth knowledge of technical and commercial best practices and how that work product integrates with other teams; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
Support sales team in closing orders by providing technical expertise negotiation support and timely responses to customer needs.
Responsible to participate in cycle time reduction proposal quality improvement and technical risk analysis and optimization activities.
Participation in weekly proposal risk reviews owning the technical risk review on each transaction.
Participation 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 issues resolutions Technical Leader tools development & deployment simplification growth and lean initiatives.
Mentor team members with less experience.
Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.
Develop deep relationships with customers technical team to enable collaborative development of their project pipelines.
Facilitate periodic touch points with customers to enable bi-directional communication/feedback on technical and project-specific issues.
Perform other duties as required by management.
Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Mechanical Electrical or a related engineering discipline (STEM fields preferred).
Minimum of 5 years experience in power or wind projects including tender preparation and/or project implementation.
Desired Characteristics
Process improvement & team leadership experience.
Success in working directly with customers independent engineers sales engineering product line and project management teams.
Some travel required away from assignment location primarily for customer meetings and negotiations.
Demonstrated sensitivity to customer needs and awareness of market conditions.
Fluent in English.
Strong knowledge of wind turbine components (gearbox blades tower controls etc.).
Knowledge of mechanical loads analysis and wind resource assessment processes.
Multi-tasking high volumes of work at various stages of maturity and ability to prioritize workload.
Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
Ability to document plan market and execute programs. Established project management skills.
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