Customer Substation Application Engineer

Job Description Summary

The Lead Application Engineer is an established leader in their respective engineering team. You drive business strategy through detailed technical and economic understanding of the marketplace and take the initiative to drive business leaders to provide customers with the best solutions that positively impact business. You serve as the technological point person for the business for the entire Inquiry to Order (ITO) phase.#LI-ML2

• 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.) as part of the pre-ITO (requisition) process while interfacing with the commercial team.
• Deliver high technical quality of GE’s 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.
• Responsible for technical proposal accuracy 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 specification 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.
• 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.

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent technical degree.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with substation/Electrical design, studies, specifications, estimating, and construction experience in substation, transmission, or power generation projects for the power generation/distribution/transmission industry.
• Minimum 2 year of technical proposal writing and proposal management experience.
• Up to 20% travel (may include international travel) and must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies.
• Eligibility to work in USA.
• Offer conditional to successful background check.

• Experience with large and complex Substation Project proposal development.
• Experience with Full turnkey Substation solutions, EPC, EPCI including Civil works.
• Passion to win--constantly providing ways to improve hit rate. Ability to develop the technical strategy after ensuring customer’s CTQs are understood and the outcome desired by the customer is defined.
• Basic expertise in the design of Power Transmission and Distribution equipment & systems, electrical substation, and protection devices.…