Proposal Manager

Duties

• Determine complete scope of customer request from both internal or external customers
• Research original contracts, aftermarket contracts, engineering resources, and technical standards to determine the specifics of scope that should be offered
• Formalize complete description for scope being offered and identify most effective manufacturing facility
• Determine total cost, price, and lead time for identified scope, which may be accomplished via resources available in supply chain management, transportation, graphics, engineering, estimating, pricing, and/or order management group or resources available within the Product Support group
• Follow up with required groups and utilize routing system to track and expedite quote completion
• Maintain quote ownership and can work on multiple quotes simultaneously while managing workload priority
• Final review before quote is submitted to customer
• Primary point of contact for follow up questions (including technical) from various internal and external customers

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience with an Associate Mechanical Engineering Technical degree or technical knowledge normally associated with an Associate Technical degree, including the ability to read drawings and bill of material
• Experience with creating bills of material, red-lining drawings, and proposal development
• Excellent communication skills, technical reading & writing skills
• Ability to exercise a moderate degree of independent judgment and problem solving
• As needed business travel and research requests
• Self-motivated, team oriented, and can think outside-the-box

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of PLM, Visibility, Data Warehouse, Oracle, RPQO, and Global Parts and Service internal processes
• 7+ years’ experience, plus Tech Design experience with AutoCad, Solid Works, or another related CAD software (3D Modeling is a plus, but not required)
• Familiar with B&W Design and Technical Standards
• Familiar with microfilm and researching historic documents
• Technical knowledge of boilers, pulverizers, combustion equipment, environmental equipment, sootblowers and/or electrostatic precipitators