Lead Commercial Application Engineer

Job description

Job Number

2819615

Business

GE Oil & Gas

Business Segment

Oil & Gas Regions

About Us

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

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Through project management expertise and technology innovation, we work to help lower costs, make things faster, simpler and more productive for our customers.

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Posted Position Title

Lead Commercial Application Engineer

Career Level

Experienced

Function

Engineering/Technology

Function Segment

Customer Engineering

Location(s) Where Opening Is Available

United States

U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces

Nevada
Texas

City

Houston, Minden

Postal Code

77041-2001

Relocation Assistance

Yes

Role Summary/Purpose

The Lead Commercial Application Engineer (CAE) works within Commercial Operations. The CAE manages and negotiates technical risk within the Inquiry to Order (ITO) process. The CAE is responsible for the technical content, technical cost and technical risk mitigation of customer Request for Quotations.

Essential Responsibilities

The CAE's principal work activities relate to the Bid/No Bid decision, development of high quality proposals, scope and contract negotiations order acceptance and project hand-off to the execution team.

CAEs use their knowledge of Bently Nevada applications, together with project and service experience and deep P&L product domain knowledge to develop product and installation solutions to meet customer needs. This includes schedule and costs that facilitate total scope project offerings.

In the role of Lead Customer Application Engineer, you will:

·  Support Sales by reviewing and influencing customer specifications to assure compliance and/or noted exceptions for development of equipment and service quotations

·  Develop hardware and service proposal solutions to provide the most costs effective, technically appropriate solution to meet the customer need

·  Familiar with commercial and contractual risk within the Inquiry to Order (ITO) process

·  Understand the commercial process and tools to ensure appropriate bid compliance and risk mitigation prior to release of a proposal to a customer

·  Coordinate/respond to vendor prequalification documents

·  Accept ownership of bid opportunities from Sales via Deal Machines

·  On occasion, support technical presentations to customers

·  Maintain strong industry intelligence to inform business decision-making

·  Communicate individual customer requirements to Sales Manager in regards to design and quotation

·  Communicate requirements for order fulfillment to OTR project operations teams

·  Contribute to regional sales, orders, profitability, and ITO quality goals

·  Document competitors' activities and assess potential market moves

·  Use technical expertise to support other functions where appropriate

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

Desired Characteristics

·  Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical or Controls) from an accredited college or university

·  Strong customer mindset

·  Self-starter – able to work with minimal supervision

·  Project Management mindset, able to multitask under tight time pressure

·  Team player, exhibiting flexibility

·  Ability to perform engineering analysis and design, to develop solutions in a team environment, and to provide technical consulting services to customers

·  Level of commercial and contractual knowledge to negotiate and close deals with customers.

·  Ability to lead project teams conducting technical analysis to mitigate risk

·  Strong interpersonal and developing leadership skills

·  Ability to mentor less experienced engineers

·  Strong technical and analytical skills

·  Prior experience in preparation of detailed technical proposals

·  Strong oral and written communication skills

·  Domain expert – deep technical knowledge of product line and its application

·  Results oriented – must be prepared to see the job through

·  Commercially and Business “aware”

PLEASE NOTE: Houston, Texas is the preferred location, however other U.S. locations may be considered.

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Desired profile

Qualifications/Requirements

·  Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in a technical discipline

·  Minimum 3 years of experience in the application of Bently Nevada product

Eligibility Requirements:

·  Ability and willingness to travel 20% of the time