Location:
Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Job ID:
R0134033
Date Posted:
2026-06-18
Company Name:
HITACHI ENERGY INDIA LIMITED
Profession (Job Category):
Sales, Marketing & Product Management
Job Schedule:
Full time
Remote:
No
Job Description:
TITLE – Bids & Proposal Engineer – High Voltage Service
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader dedicated to advancing a sustainable energy future. As part of the Hitachi Group and headquartered in Switzerland, the company operates across more than 90 countries, delivering advanced solutions that support electrification, decarbonization, and digitalization. It plays a key role in helping utilities, industries, and infrastructure providers build reliable and resilient power systems.
The company’s core operations focus on power grids and transmission systems, including transformers, high‑voltage switchgear, grid automation, and high‑voltage direct current (HVDC) technologies. These solutions improve power transmission efficiency, enhance grid stability, and enable long‑distance and cross‑border energy transfer. Hitachi Energy is especially strong in integrating renewable energy sources such as wind and solar into existing and new grids.
A major pillar of Hitachi Energy’s business is its service expertise, which spans the full asset lifecycle. The company provides maintenance, modernization, upgrades, spare parts, and digital services to extend asset life and improve performance. Through predictive maintenance, remote monitoring, and data‑driven insights, Hitachi Energy helps customers reduce downtime, optimize reliability, and lower total cost of ownership.
Responsibilities:
- Recording and maintaining enquiry registers on regular basis.
- Review customer’s bid documents, technical specification and requirements, identifies the scope of supply/ service, prepares list of technical deviations and clarifications.
- Prepare Timely and comprehensive pre-bid documentation
- Determine most technically appropriate and cost-effective solutions.
- Getting backup data, quotations from internal stakeholders, vendors, contractors, etc.
- Close co-ordination and conduct necessary meetings with internal stakeholders (engineering, legal, operations, etc.) as well other business units.
- Identifies potential risks in the bids/ estimates/ quotations/ solutions proposed.
- Ensure all pre-tender processes and proposals follow relevant Hitachi Energy Procedures and guidelines, rationalize terms and conditions
- Prepare techno-commercial proposals for local market considering all economical and technical project aspects as well as customer’s bidding process.
- Follow customer tender portals and processes for bidding in tenders as applicable.
- Support Sales team in the negotiation/ clarification during bidding process.
- Close collaboration with the Sales team and Common service FES responsible.
- Track proposal status and follow-up with Sales/CS FES team and customers.
- Planning the daily offer volume with the sales team to ensure delivery dates and adhere to timelines.
- Get acquainted with tools and processes, guidelines to be followed
- Bid & proposal standardization & competence development
- Creation of Sale order in SAP with associated activities, on receipt of order from Customer.
- Preparing post order documentation and following applicable commercial processes prior to handover.
- Maintaining all documentation in hard and soft formats appropriately.
- Lost proposal analysis to obtain better future bidding
- Know-how sharing & cross-function collaboration.
- Accountable for technical expertise and quality & accuracy of the deliverables
- Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety, integrity and quality, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business
- Preferred knowledge in Product Services, preferably in Electrical equipment like circuit breakers , GIS, Isolators etc.
Background:
- A bachelor’s degree or Diploma in electrical/ mechanical engineering or related discipline.
- Candidate should have 6 to years of professional work experience in power product & service tendering/ proposal preparation (technical & commercial).
- Knowledge in Switchgear operation and maintenance concept.
- Must have experience and skill to prepare and support Bid Process.
- Individual contributor using in-depth knowledge and putting extra efforts in specific area to execute complex or specialized tenders/ challenges.
- Customer and market oriented.
- Being technical, analytical, proactive & innovative, solution & target oriented.
- Able to operate under pressure to tight deadlines with a flexible attitude to work.
- Having good planning and organization skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Fluent in English language both spoken and written.
- A team player, sincere, committed, honest and positive attitude.
- Proficiency in technical tools such as MS-Office and Salesforce
- Knowledge and experience in SAP.
- Location – Vadodara, Gujarat
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