Mechanical Systems Technical Tendering Principal

Schneider Electric is a global energy technology leader, driving efficiency and sustainability by electrifying, automating, and digitalizing industries, businesses, and homes. Our technologies enable buildings, data centers, factories, infrastructure, and grids to operate as open, interconnected ecosystems, enhancing performance, resilience, and sustainability.

Our portfolio includes intelligent devices, software-defined architectures, AI-powered systems, digital services, and expert advisory. With 160,000 employees and one million partners in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is consistently ranked among the world’s most sustainable companies.

Role Summary

The Mechanical Systems Technical Tendering Principal acts as the design authority and customer technical referent for electrical and cooling solutions across selected strategic accounts of the EU C&SP Solution Center. The role ensures technical excellence, consistency, and standardization of Schneider Electric’s electrical and cooling design solutions from early customer prescription and tender phases through project execution, while complying with SE technical governance, quality, safety, and cybersecurity principles.

Act as the primary technical reference for customers on electrical and cooling design solutions. Understand customer technical drivers and translate them into optimized and compliant design architectures. Proactively engage in technical prescription activities with customer central teams ahead of RFQs. Contribute to tender preparation, providing validated technical concepts, design assumptions, and clarifications.

Lead the design definition of customer-approved solutions, aiming at standardization and reuse across regions. Ensure solutions comply with SE technical governance (CPP, TDP, safety, quality and cybersecurity). Develop complete design packages to support consistent deployment and knowledge transfer. Capture and promote lessons learned and best practices to continuously improve design efficiency.

Ensure standardized solutions are correctly applied in all tenders and projects, regardless of geography. Act as technical referent for Zone and Country Technical Leaders during tender and execution phases. Role Responsibilities: Lead technical exchanges, workshops, and clarifications with customers in a credible and trust‑building manner.

Clearly explain complex technical concepts, design choices, and trade‑offs to customer stakeholders. Demonstrate strong customer‑facing, communication, and influencing skills to support technical credibility and customer confidence. Be connected with SE Line of Businesses and be up to date on the last technical evolutions of equipment/ systems to leverage it to the benefit of customer future technical solutions.

Actively contribute to tender and pre‑tender phases, ensuring the proposed electrical and cooling designs are technically sound, competitive, and executable. Define and validate technical architectures, design assumptions, and compliance matrices. Ensure consistency between tender commitments and executable project design.

Lead and approve basic and detailed electrical and cooling designs in line with customer requirements and SE standards. Ensure coherence, robustness, and compliance of all design deliverables across projects and regions. Coordinate and guide project technical teams, ensuring design activities align with project planning and milestones.

Identify needs for specific expertise and coordinate involvement of SMEs and specialists. Monitor technical scope, engineering effort, and key technical cost drivers. Work in close collaboration with PMs, GTLs, Execution TLs, engineers, factories, and suppliers. Lead and coordinate technical aspects of subcontracted scope in alignment with procurement.

Act as the single technical interface for internal and external stakeholders on design topics. Perform and review design and specification activities from pre‑design and tender through L5 commissioning, optimizing the use of Schneider Electric’s portfolio. Typical scope includes: Cooling systems and equipment Chiller, FWU, CRAH, CRAC, CDU MV / LV systems, transformers, UPS, busways E‑house integration and site installation BMS and monitoring systems Support FAT, SAT, and prototype validations when required.

Identify technical risks, design deviations, and change impacts versus contract or approved baseline. Support PMs and Execution TLs in technical assessments of changes and variation orders. Ensure compliance with SE processes (CPP, TDP), quality standards, and safety and cybersecurity requirements. Capture lessons learned and drive standardization and continuous improvement across accounts.

Role Requirements: Bachlor’s degree in engineering Mechanical (Cooling ). Fluent English and Arabic Other languages are a plus. +7 years in leading technical scope of customer projects, or parts of large & international customer projects. Technical experience in the Hyperscale Data Center, Technical experience in AI Data center infrastructure area plus Technical experience in Cooling design and Equipment Chiller, FWU, CRAH, CRAC, CDU and Electrical equipment MV,LV and EPMS & BMS (Ideally all fields).

Ability to lead with agility in a complex & matrix environment. Ability to communicate (written, verbal) clearly in a concise and synthetic manner on complex technical strategy. Ability to convince stakeholders on the proper project technical strategy. Ability to learn from others, share her/his knowledge, coach others and collaborate efficiently.

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Schneider Electric is a global energy technology leader, driving efficiency and sustainability by electrifying, automating, and digitalizing industries, businesses, and homes. Our technologies enable buildings, data centers, factories, infrastructure, and grids to operate as open, interconnected ecosystems, enhancing performance, resilience, and sustainability.

Our portfolio includes intelligent devices, software-defined architectures, AI-powered systems, digital services, and expert advisory. With 160,000 employees and one million partners in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is consistently ranked among the world’s most sustainable companies.

Role Summary

The Mechanical Systems Technical Tendering Principal acts as the design authority and customer technical referent for electrical and cooling solutions across selected strategic accounts of the EU C&SP Solution Center. The role ensures technical excellence, consistency, and standardization of Schneider Electric’s electrical and cooling design solutions from early customer prescription and tender phases through project execution, while complying with SE technical governance, quality, safety, and cybersecurity principles.

Act as the primary technical reference for customers on electrical and cooling design solutions. Understand customer technical drivers and translate them into optimized and compliant design architectures. Proactively engage in technical prescription activities with customer central teams ahead of RFQs. Contribute to tender preparation, providing validated technical concepts, design assumptions, and clarifications.

Lead the design definition of customer-approved solutions, aiming at standardization and reuse across regions. Ensure solutions comply with SE technical governance (CPP, TDP, safety, quality and cybersecurity). Develop complete design packages to support consistent deployment and knowledge transfer. Capture and promote lessons learned and best practices to continuously improve design efficiency.

Ensure standardized solutions are correctly applied in all tenders and projects, regardless of geography. Act as technical referent for Zone and Country Technical Leaders during tender and execution phases. Role Responsibilities: Lead technical exchanges, workshops, and clarifications with customers in a credible and trust‑building manner.

Clearly explain complex technical concepts, design choices, and trade‑offs to customer stakeholders. Demonstrate strong customer‑facing, communication, and influencing skills to support technical credibility and customer confidence. Be connected with SE Line of Businesses and be up to date on the last technical evolutions of equipment/ systems to leverage it to the benefit of customer future technical solutions.

Actively contribute to tender and pre‑tender phases, ensuring the proposed electrical and cooling designs are technically sound, competitive, and executable. Define and validate technical architectures, design assumptions, and compliance matrices. Ensure consistency between tender commitments and executable project design.

Lead and approve basic and detailed electrical and cooling designs in line with customer requirements and SE standards. Ensure coherence, robustness, and compliance of all design deliverables across projects and regions. Coordinate and guide project technical teams, ensuring design activities align with project planning and milestones.

Identify needs for specific expertise and coordinate involvement of SMEs and specialists. Monitor technical scope, engineering effort, and key technical cost drivers. Work in close collaboration with PMs, GTLs, Execution TLs, engineers, factories, and suppliers. Lead and coordinate technical aspects of subcontracted scope in alignment with procurement.

Act as the single technical interface for internal and external stakeholders on design topics. Perform and review design and specification activities from pre‑design and tender through L5 commissioning, optimizing the use of Schneider Electric’s portfolio. Typical scope includes: Cooling systems and equipment Chiller, FWU, CRAH, CRAC, CDU MV / LV systems, transformers, UPS, busways E‑house integration and site installation BMS and monitoring systems Support FAT, SAT, and prototype validations when required.

Identify technical risks, design deviations, and change impacts versus contract or approved baseline. Support PMs and Execution TLs in technical assessments of changes and variation orders. Ensure compliance with SE processes (CPP, TDP), quality standards, and safety and cybersecurity requirements. Capture lessons learned and drive standardization and continuous improvement across accounts.

Role Requirements: Bachlor’s degree in engineering Mechanical (Cooling ). Fluent English and Arabic Other languages are a plus. +7 years in leading technical scope of customer projects, or parts of large & international customer projects. Technical experience in the Hyperscale Data Center, Technical experience in AI Data center infrastructure area plus Technical experience in Cooling design and Equipment Chiller, FWU, CRAH, CRAC, CDU and Electrical equipment MV,LV and EPMS & BMS (Ideally all fields).

Ability to lead with agility in a complex & matrix environment. Ability to communicate (written, verbal) clearly in a concise and synthetic manner on complex technical strategy. Ability to convince stakeholders on the proper project technical strategy. Ability to learn from others, share her/his knowledge, coach others and collaborate efficiently.