Proposal Engineer

A Snapshot of Your Day

In this role within Siemens Energy's High Voltage Products business, the focus is on preparing technically compliant and commercially competitive bids for the air and gas insulated switchgear and surge arrester portfolio. Working closely with factory offer teams, regional sales colleagues, and commercial and legal partners, the role supports customers across the energy value chain, including utilities, transmission operators, renewable developers, EPCs, and industrial customers. The position combines technical understanding, customer engagement, and commercial awareness to deliver high quality proposals that strengthen customer relationships and contribute to Siemens Energy's continued success in the transmission and distribution market.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Work closely with factory sales and offer teams to prepare accurate, compliant, and competitive bids for high voltage products including AIS, GIS, and surge arresters.
• Collaborate with regional sales teams to understand customer requirements, market conditions, and competitive dynamics in order to shape winning proposals.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with customers, internal stakeholders, factories, suppliers, and partners to support efficient bid development.
• Engage with legal and commercial colleagues to identify, assess, and mitigate contractual and commercial risks at the proposal stage.
• Take ownership of bid activities, managing priorities, deadlines, and inputs to ensure timely and high quality submissions.
• Use digital tools and systems, including CRM platforms such as Salesforce, to manage opportunities, improve transparency, and support continuous improvement.

What You Bring

• A relevant engineering qualification or practical experience, with exposure to the energy sector and an understanding of transmission systems and applications.
• The ability to understand customer needs and position technical and commercial solutions within a complex organisational environment.
• Experience working across multi stakeholder environments, including coordination with factories, regional teams, and headquarters functions.
• A proactive and accountable approach, with the ability to work independently while engaging management support when required.
• Strong communication skills and a positive, solutions focused mindset when working with internal and external stakeholders.
• A sound commercial awareness, including a basic understanding of profit and loss, budgeting, approval processes, and associated tools.

About the Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With 100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

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Rewards/Benefits

Opportunities to work with a global team

Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects

Medical benefits

Remote/Flexible work

Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave

Continual learning through the platform