Job Description Summary

The Application Engineering Manager – Data Centers will focus on activities relative to the burgeoning data center segment, ensuring consistent functional specifications and standardized processes across all proposal cycles. This role focuses on understanding and meeting customer expectations through effective planning and flawless tender engineering execution. It impacts departmental operations and involves execution within established functional practices and procedures. The role has some autonomy; decision-making is typically guided and focused on disciplined execution.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technological point person for the business for the entire Inquiry to Order (ITO) phase. Provides technical expertise and develops technical solutions (configuration, performance estimation, economics, etc.) specifically covering Data Center Hyperscale as part of the pre-ITO (requisition) process while interfacing with the commercial team.

• Deliver high technical quality of GE Vernova proposals including processes & programs that make the proposals more accepted (compliant or clarified), effective, and cost competitive to the customer with reduced overall-performance risk.  Proposal must be clear, provide customer value, and demonstrate how GE meets their specification requirement.

• In additional to being a Senior AE on select critical proposals also Manage and motivate team members to deliver technical proposal including technical specifications & clarifications/ assumptions/ exceptions, quantifying design and deliverables, installation work scope definition, cost allocation, bill of materials, and estimation of engineering, installation and testing/commissioning based on customer specifications and/or industry standards (IEEE, NESC, ANSI, NEMA, IEC, etc.), sourcing, and historical data.

• Perform basic studies necessary to verify proper specifications and design of proposed solutions

• Provide technical support to create subcontractors and power equipment bid packages

• Augment the commercial team for customer presentations of technical capabilities and proposals

• Lead preparation of high-voltage equipment specifications and contractor work scopes; support vendor engagement and equipment selection.

• Design and implement methodologies, templates, and libraries that provide the most accurate cost estimates with the least amount of engineering effort for a given customer scope.

• Write technical specifications for equipment and services, working with PM’s & Sourcing to manage quotes and vendor responses.

• Work with the Proposal Manager, AE team, and assigned multi-discipline engineers to provide up to full “Engineer, Procure, & Construct” estimates for conventional utility, industrial, & renewable substations, P&C and equipment programs, Systems & Communications projects, and BOP projects including FACTS, HVDC Segments

• Possesses a basic understanding of relevant markets and customer economic value that aid winning bid strategies.

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrated with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.

• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology, or engineering. 

• Works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent technical degree.   

• Minimum 15 years of experience with design, studies, specifications, estimating, and construction experience in substation, transmission, or power generation projects for the power generation/distribution/transmission industry.

• Minimum 5 year of technical proposal writing and proposal management experience

• Up to 20% travel (may include international)

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience with large and complex Project proposal development.

• Experience with Full turnkey solutions, EPC, EPC