Abb
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Associate Technical Proposal Specialist

Location
Pinetops, NC
Listed
3 days ago

This position reports to

Elds Nam

Grid Components Proposals Leader

Your role and responsibilities

Calling recent Electrical Engineering grads! In this role, you will have the opportunity to create and complete bids, estimations, and quotations based on customer specifications, requirements, or budget to achieve market competitiveness and high margins for the company. Each day, you will maintain and improve the balance between all ABB units and customers in your area of responsibility. You will also showcase your expertise by collecting and collating the information required to prepare proposals, including both technical and cost elements.

The work model for the role is

Onsite, Pinetops, NC #LI-Onsite

This role is contributing to the North American Grid Components in North America.

You will be mainly accountable for

  • Formulating competitive bids, estimates, and quotations by considering the best available product mix and appropriate technical and commercial aspects for each situation.
  • Creating well-documented tenders in a timely manner and with an appropriate level of detail, including full and accurate costs.
  • Managing the preparation of technical, financial, and, if required, project management aspects of the bid, estimate, and quotation, indicating prices and trading conditions.
  • Ensuring that inputs for editing activities related to bid, estimate, and quotation preparation are provided in a timely manner and in accordance with the established quality procedures.

Qualifications for the role

  • You are experienced in and excited about working with iproject management tools, estimation software, and ERP systems within the electrical equipment manufacturing and industrial automation market.
  • You are eager to learn about all aspects of the proposal and manufacturing processes
  • You hold a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and have demonstrated proficiency in electrical systems design, power distribution analysis, and industrial automation fundamentals

What's in it for you

  • We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence.
  • You'll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that's tailored to your goals.
  • Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.

Abb Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

  • [excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]
  • Go to MyBenefitsABB.com and click on "Candidate/Guest" to
  • Health, Life & Disability
  • Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
  • Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
  • Vision benefit
  • Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
  • Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
  • Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
  • Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
  • Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
  • Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
  • Employee discount program

Retirement

  • 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
  • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
  • Time off
  • ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
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  • Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.
  • Ready to make an impact?

About Abb

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner-and every person here makes that happen. You'll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid.

The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users.

With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

Read the original posting

From Abb's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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