Lead Proposal Engineer - Renewables

Ulteig Engineers, Inc.; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 111,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Workplace

Employee Ownership

Competitive Pay

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Collaborative Environment

Innovative Culture

Job summary

Ulteig Engineers, Inc. seeks a Lead Proposal Engineer – Renewables to guide the creation of high-quality client proposals and project cost estimates from intake through final submission.

The role requires coordinating pursuit teams, maintaining schedules, and ensuring compliant, compelling responses. You will lead medium to highly complex pursuits with minimal oversight, develop scope and fee proposals, and work with Sales, Technical Services, Legal, and other stakeholders to secure inputs and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering in a related field.
• 5–10 years of proposal development, engineering, PM, or related work.
• Strong written and verbal communication to translate technical info into client content.
• Ability to independently lead concurrent proposals with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Participate in market, sales, and internal proposal meetings for opportunity planning.
• Review RFIs and documents to identify compliance, gaps, risks, and required inputs.
• Lead kickoff activities and establish proposal strategy, schedule, and inputs.
• Lead medium to highly complex proposals with minimal oversight.
• Create 85% complete drafts and coordinate scope, approach, schedule, and estimates.
• Maintain proposal development plans, assignments, and submission requirements.
• Lead fee estimating and scope development with pursuit-team inputs.
• Direct technical editing to ensure accuracy and alignment with narrative and estimate.
• Follow templates, content libraries, and brand standards during writing and editing.
• Coordinate reviews, revisions, approvals, and signatories to meet milestones.
• Collaborate with Sales, Technical Services, Legal, Safety, Quality, Procurement, and others.

Skills

Proposal leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Communication skills

Lead multiple proposals

Risk/requirements identification

US work authorization

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (electrical, structural, mechanical, or civil)

Tools

Microsoft 365

Adobe Creative Cloud

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

Visme

Power BI

Proposal-management databases

Content libraries

Collaboration tools

Workflow systems

Job description

The Opportunity

Ulteig is seeking qualified candidates for a Lead Proposal Engineer – Renewables role within Enterprise Operational Services. This role leads the development of high-quality, client-focused technical proposals and project cost estimates, coordinating pursuit teams and proposal schedules from intake through final submission. The Lead Proposal Engineer independently leads medium‑complexity and multi‑scope pursuits and leads highly complex pursuits with minimal to no oversight. The role combines proposal leadership, technical scope development, fee estimating, technical editing, and continuous improvement to ensure proposal responses are compliant, compelling, technically aligned, and responsive to client needs.

What You’ll Do

• Participate in market and sales meetings and internal Proposal Team meetings to support opportunity planning, prioritization, coordination, and knowledge sharing.
• Review RFPs, proposal intake information, technical documents, and other client-provided information to identify compliance requirements, missing information, scope gaps, risks, assumptions, exclusions, subcontractor needs, and potential requests for information (RFIs).
• Lead proposal kickoff activities, including meetings, emails, and other communications that establish the proposal strategy, schedule, responsibilities, milestones, and required inputs.
• Lead medium-complexity and multi-scope proposals with no oversight and lead highly complex proposals with minimal to no oversight.
• Create proposal drafts that are approximately 85% complete and coordinate with the technical pursuit team to finalize scope, approach, schedule, fee, assumptions, and supporting content.
• Prepare and maintain proposal development plans, assignments, communications, review schedules, and submission requirements.
• Lead fee estimating and discipline-specific scope development when appropriate, coordinating technical assumptions, resource requirements, and pursuit-team inputs.
• Lead technical editing reviews to improve accuracy, clarity, consistency, compliance, and alignment between the proposal narrative, scope, and estimate.
• Follow established proposal writing, editing, formatting, and brand standards, including approved templates, content libraries, and review practices.
• Coordinate proposal reviews, revisions, approvals, and authorized signatories to meet established proposal milestone schedules and submission deadlines.
• Partner with Sales, Technical Services, Field Services, Project Management, Legal, Safety, Quality, Procurement, and other stakeholders to secure accurate and timely proposal inputs.
• Participate in Go/No-Go, opportunity-priority, and pursuit-strategy discussions, as requested.
• Participate in and/or lead the development and continuous improvement of proposal processes, tools, templates, standard content, databases, resource libraries, and workflow documentation.
• Maintain CRM opportunity records, where applicable, and the proposal management database to support accurate tracking, reporting, and closeout.
• Manage or facilitate subcontractor proposal elements, as needed.
• Support proposal closeout by saving final documents, identifying reusable content, communicating content updates, and contributing to lessons learned.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Leadership Responsibilities

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
• May provide guidance, coaching, and process support to new team members.
• May lead projects or internal initiatives with limited risk and resource requirements.

What We Expect from You

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (electrical, structural, mechanical, or civil).
• Five to ten years of relevant experience in proposal development, engineering, project management, technical writing, estimating, or related work in Power, Renewables, infrastructure, EPC, utility, or consulting environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical information into clear, client-focused proposal content.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead concurrent proposals, coordinate cross-functional teams, manage milestone schedules, and influence without direct authority.
• Ability to interpret technical specifications, drawings, scopes, client standards, and project requirements and identify associated risks, assumptions, exclusions, and execution considerations.
• Strong organizational, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and follow-through skills in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Comfort working through ambiguity, identifying information gaps, asking informed questions, and establishing a practical path forward.
• Must have authorization to work permanently in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Engineer in Training (EIT) certification or Professional Engineer (PE) licensure.
• Experience supporting proposals for utility-scale solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), substations, transmission, distribution, interconnection studies, or related power and renewable-energy infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Shipley color reviews or similar proposal development methodologies.
• Experience developing scope-and-fee proposals, qualifications-based proposals, cost estimates, compliance matrices, resumes, organization charts, and client-specific proposal packages.
• Demonstrated success applying automation, analytics, or AI-enabled workflows to improve quality, consistency, and efficiency.

Tools and Systems

• Microsoft 365: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Adobe Creative Cloud: InDesign and Illustrator.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 or a comparable CRM platform.
• Visme.
• Power BI.
• Proposal-management databases, content libraries, collaboration tools, and related workflow systems.

What You Can Expect from Ulteig

Ulteig is a purpose driven organization that has built a culture focused on people - both our clients and our employees -for over 80 years. Working at Ulteig is more than a job, opening opportunities to make an impact by creating and solving for a sustainable future. We recognize our success relies heavily on the dedication and focus of our workforce; this is why we make investing in our employees a top priority. We prioritize flexibility and staying connected to meet your needs and help you achieve your goals. We value your unique perspective, respect your individuality and celebrate your contributions. At Ulteig, we take our own success and the success of our clients personally.

We offer our team members

• Flexible Workplace
• Employee Ownership
• Competitive Pay
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Collaborative Environment
• Innovative Culture

Our vision is to be the most trusted partners transforming our world’s critical infrastructure. Ulteig connects people and resources to develop compelling, integrated solutions across multiple Lifeline Sectors, including Power, Renewables, Transportation and Water. Ulteig is a trusted partner in engineering North America’s essential infrastructure and leverages its expertise with a wide range of public and private clients.

At Ulteig, we care deeply about our team, listening to their needs and ensuring they have the tools necessary to be productive whether they choose to work remotely, hybrid or in office. Regardless of where you work, you are empowered to build a workday that best suits your strengths. We strive to ensure a balance and separation between home and work life. We support a flexible working schedule so employees are able to focus on what’s important to them.

Ulteig is a Drug Free Workplace

ACHIEVE | GROW | COLLABORATE

Additional Opportunity Details

Target Base Compensation Range for this role is $111,200 - $150,400

• Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your job specific skills, education, training, job location, number of years of experience related to this role and comparison to other employees already in this role

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 60 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.

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