Lead Proposal Engineer – Renewables

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $111.2k - $150.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📄 Proposal Manager

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Ulteig

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1944

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

Consulting • Logistics • Construction

Ulteig is a North American infrastructure engineering, technical services, and consulting firm that delivers design, digital tools, and advisory services for critical lifeline sectors. The employee-owned company supports public and private clients on power and utility-scale renewable energy projects, transportation planning and infrastructure, and water sector work—offering engineering design, SCADA/EMS solutions, project-development services, and decision-support software to help manage complex, multidisciplinary projects.

📋 Description

• Lead development of high-quality, client-focused technical proposals and project cost estimates • Coordinate pursuit teams and proposal schedules from intake through final submission • Participate in market, sales, and internal Proposal Team meetings • Review RFPs, proposal intake information, technical documents, and client-provided information • Identify compliance requirements, missing information, scope gaps, risks, assumptions, exclusions, subcontractor needs, and potential RFIs • Lead proposal kickoff activities and establish proposal strategy, schedules, responsibilities, milestones, and required inputs • Independently lead medium-complexity and multi-scope proposals and lead highly complex proposals with minimal to no oversight • Create proposal drafts and coordinate with technical pursuit teams 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 • Lead technical editing reviews for accuracy, clarity, consistency, compliance, and alignment • Follow proposal writing, editing, formatting, and brand standards • Coordinate proposal reviews, revisions, approvals, authorized signatories, and submission deadlines • Partner with Sales, Technical Services, Field Services, Project Management, Legal, Safety, Quality, Procurement, and other stakeholders • Participate in Go/No-Go, opportunity-priority, and pursuit-strategy discussions • Improve proposal processes, tools, templates, standard content, databases, resource libraries, and workflow documentation • Maintain CRM opportunity records and proposal management database • Manage or facilitate subcontractor proposal elements • Support proposal closeout, reusable content identification, content updates, and lessons learned • Provide guidance, coaching, and process support to new team members • Lead projects or internal initiatives with limited risk and resource requirements • Perform other related duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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 • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Workplace • Employee Ownership • Competitive Pay • Comprehensive Benefits Package • Collaborative Environment • Innovative Culture • Flexible working schedule • Remote, hybrid, or in-office work options • Separation between home and work life • Drug Free Workplace

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