Lead Proposal Engineer – Renewables

Ulteig; United States; A distancia; USD 111.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Ulteig is seeking a Lead Proposal Engineer – Renewables to orchestrate client-focused proposals and cost estimates across medium to highly complex pursuits. You will lead the pursuit team through intake to final submission, ensuring compliance, clarity, and compelling content that aligns with client needs.

The role combines leadership, technical scope development, fee estimating, and editorial oversight, with collaboration across Sales, Technical Services, Project Management, Legal, Safety, and

Formación

• 5–10 years in proposal development, engineering, project management, technical writing, estimating, or related work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including translating technical information into client-focused content.
• Ability to independently lead concurrent proposals, coordinate cross-functional teams, manage milestones.
• Ability to interpret technical specifications, drawings, scopes, client standards, and project requirements.

Responsabilidades

• Lead medium to highly complex proposals with minimal oversight.
• Develop scope, approach, schedule, fee, assumptions, and content with the pursuit team.
• Prepare proposal development plans, assignments, and review schedules.
• Coordinate reviews, revisions, and sign-offs to meet deadlines.
• Collaborate with Sales, Technical Services, Field Services, PM, Legal, Safety, Quality, Procurement.
• Maintain CRM opportunity records and the proposal management database.

Conocimientos

Proposal leadership

RFP management

Technical editing

Project coordination

Client communication

Risk assessment

Ambiguity management

Independent execution

Herramientas

Microsoft 365

Adobe Creative Cloud

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Visme

Power BI

CRM systems

Descripción del empleo

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

• 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

• 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.

Ulteig is a Drug Free Workplace

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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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