Proposal Engineer

At Metso, we're committed to enabling sustainable modern life by transforming the industry and making a positive change. As a Proposal Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in creating unique and complex offerings to meet the needs of our customers.

You'll be responsible for creating proposals for complex spare parts, upgrades, refurbishments, and retrofits to meet the Market Area (Sales) demands. Your expertise will ensure proposal competitiveness by clearly communicating the Metso value add for our customers.

• Review customer inquiries, identifying needs, requirements, comments, and exceptions.
• Create proposals for complex spare parts, upgrades, refurbishments, and retrofits to meet the Market Area (Sales) demands.
• Define application-specific equipment specifications.
• Ensure proposal competitiveness by clearly communicating the Metso value add for our customers.
• Ensure proposals are commercially viable and competitive while mitigating and managing Metso's risk.
• Develop standard commercial offerings for upgrades, retrofits, and refurbishment and deploy these to the MA teams for opportunity generation.
• Create effective RFQs and obtain proposals from third-party suppliers.
• Ensure the handover of as-sold packages to the project management team.
• Define supply needs to Procurement to support the opportunities.
• Coordinate with Operational engineering the engineering requirements for a given project.
• Coordinate Retrofit and Refurbishment proposals with the SVS Professional Service group to add the local labor component and deliver a proposal with the most Metso value add.
• Visit customers to understand their business and corresponding product needs; understand their decision process and key drivers.
• Provide direct sales support.
• Work to ensure all related company intellectual property is controlled and protected.
• Strive to analyze and improve ways of working.
• Guide and influence others within the area of expertise.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field. CREA active.
• Experience in engineering or related field.
• Previous experience in generating product pricing, reviewing customer inquiries, or designing custom solutions, is preferred.
• Travel up to 20% may be required for this position.
• Knowledge of SAP applications.
• Experience in utilizing Salesforce or any CRM system.
• Ability to read and understand mechanical drawings in the English and Metric System.
• Adequate computer skills, capable of working with Microsoft Windows, Word, & Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project.
• Fluent in English.
• Spanish in intermediate.

At Metso, we offer a safe work environment, compensation and rewards, flexibility, a thriving culture, extensive learning opportunities, and interaction without borders. Join us in transforming the industry and making a positive change.