HVDC Tender Tech Lead – Global Solutions

GE Vernova; Creswell; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Tender Technical Manager to join our HVDC team. You will coordinate and manage the technical scope of HVDC product parts during the tender phase, collaborating with regional teams, solution lines, and customers to deliver high-quality proposals that meet cost targets and safety standards.

You will own technical activities for the HVDC Solution Line for a tender, enabling scalable, repeatable execution across regions, and you will coordinate with SL and Regions to achieve

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Power Electronics, or related field.
• Significant experience in engineering roles within EPC environments (T&D, Power Generation, Oil & Gas), with specific expertise in HVDC technology.
• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to inspire teams to meet goals, even in dynamic environments.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects, technical problem-solving, manage technical risk, and guide teams through complex engineering decisions.
• Emerging ability to lead, coach, or coordinate subject matter experts, or similar technical professionals in a people leadership or matrix leadership capacity.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to work across engineering, product, regional, commercial, and customer teams.
• Global Mindset: Willingness to travel and work across regions to manage tendering activities worldwide.
• Fluent in English with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own technical activities to develop and maintain the HVDC reference solutions, ensuring consistency, scalability, standardization, and configurability
• Develop, maintain, and improve engineering documentation, technical guidelines, toolkits, templates, and deployment methodologies to support efficient and repeatable execution
• Ensure technical interfaces are correctly identified, managed and verified with the appropriate engineering functions
• Provide technical support during ITO and OTR phases, ensuring reference solutions are correctly applied and having final approval for technical deviations from the reference solutions
• Collaborate with the engineering functions and subject matter experts as part of the team completing a DFMEA for the reference solutions, focusing on the system architecture level of each solution
• Support bid and execution teams with solution framing, technical governance, risk reviews, and deployment guidance for major opportunities and strategic projects
• Work to incorporate RoE, lessons learned and in-service performance feedback into reference solutions to improve quality, competitiveness, and serviceability
• Support lifecycle management activities including obsolescence management, installed base support, service opportunity development, and alignment with service and supply chain stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with applicable engineering standards, safety requirements, and certification expectations across all regions where HVDC solutions are deployed
• Support the Solution Delivery Leader in the work planning and prioritization of activities in alignment with business and solution line objectives

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Global mindset

Fluent English

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Job description

GE Vernova is seeking a Tender Technical Manager to join our HVDC team. You will coordinate and manage the technical scope of HVDC product parts during the tender phase, collaborating with regional teams, solution lines, and customers to deliver high-quality proposals that meet cost targets and safety standards.

You will own technical activities for the HVDC Solution Line for a tender, enabling scalable, repeatable execution across regions, and you will coordinate with SL and Regions to achieve