Job Description

Company Description

MUST be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

MUST be available to start working within 3 weeks of offer acceptance date.

SEGULA TECHNOLOGIES is assisting a major automotive OEM in hiring a Bid Technical Manager to join our growing team in Toronto, ON.

This is a DIRECT hire opportunity, NOT a Contractual role.

Our client offers a competitive salary and benefits plan including comprehensive relocation package, and great opportunities for career growth!

• Provide to the Bid Manager the estimate of engineering effort needed for the bid preparation.
• Negotiate with the Project Engineering Directors and manage the allocation of the technical team in line with the bid needs.
• Analyze, with the support of System Architects, the potential gaps between the customer's specification and standard solutions and products and support the Bid Manager and Tender Leader in defining the most suitable compliance strategy
• Build the system architecture applying the solution chosen with the support from the Solutions Directors.
• Coordinate, from a technical point of view, the bid internal stakeholders and the external stakeholders to ensure overall understanding of the bid technical strategy.
• When applicable, propose the migration strategy to be applied with close collaboration with the Senior Signaling Engineers, as well as the Installation and Test and Commissioning teams.
• Perform requirements compliance analysis and/or clause-by-clause of technical bid documents.
• Consolidate the technical assumptions applicable to the bid and ensure consistency between all work packages.
• Prepare and lead a Technical Design Review up to the approval of the technical scope associated to the bid.
• Lead the preparation and consolidation of the technical documentation to be delivered with the bid.
• Coordinate the engineering quotations and risks evaluation checking for overall consistency and competitiveness.
• Support Bid Manager during the negotiation with the customer, identifying any technical change during that phase.
• Lead interfaces with 3rd Parties.
• Ensure a smooth handover with the PrEM (Project Engineering Manager) or SDIM (System Deployment and Integration Manager) in case of contract award, including the requirements, architecture, technical assumptions, engineering strategy, schedule, and workload.
• In some cases, support the Project Manager and engineering team for complex variation orders on existing projects.

• Bachelor's Degree of Science in Engineering, Computer Science or scientific subjects required.
• Master's in business administration and/or Master's in project management preferred.
• Engineering background including project deployment full lifecycle view until commissioning.
• Hands-on experience on functional or hierarchical team management.
• Cost and planning control experience in engineering scope.
• Hands-on experience on Customer relationship in contractual situations.
• 5 years' or more experience in Rail Signaling industry.
• 2 years' or more experience in Technical Management.

• Products and services knowledge on different market segments (Urban, Mainline, Freight).
• Engineering product development full lifecycle view.
• Safety background.
• 2 years' or more experience with ATC2 years' or more experience with CBI and traditional signaling equipment.
• 2 years' or more experience with ATS/ICC.

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.