Job Description
Job DescriptionSalary:
Sales Engineer
Texas Process Equipment (TPE)
A fifty-plus year-old, privately held, regional distributor and manufacturers representative for a wide range of industry leading, sealed and sealless industrial pumps, XLPE tanks, water treatment controllers and accessories.
Description
The Sales Engineer is responsible for assuring client and customer needs in the assigned region are met and understood by each department in the company. Their duties include handling any client requests and complaints, working to find solutions to any client issues and working with other departments to ensure clients are experiencing a positive client-company relationship.
Location
This is an outside Sales Engineer position where the qualified candidate shall live within an active portion of the territory. The Sales Engineer will establish an office in their home. Occasional overnights may also be required. Area of responsibility will be from Corpus Christi, TX up to Austin, TX.
Clients
The current clients in the region consist of a widely varied mix of:
- Petroleum production, including pipeline, refining and terminals
- Basic and specialty chemical manufacturing, processing, and packaging
- Chemical Distribution
- OEM and systems manufacturing
- Water, wastewater and effluent transfer and treatment
- Research and Development organizations
- Electrical power generation
Duties and Responsibilities
A competent Sales Engineer should be flexible enough to handle a variety of duties that pertain to the company and our clients. Their main responsibility is to make sure the companys customers are happy, and some of their specific daily duties include:
- Provide customer product application support to all industries within respective territory
- Act as a technical resource consulting engineers, contractors, and end users providing guidance and support in product selection, application engineering, technical and application troubleshooting
- Communicating with clients to ensure that all of their needs are understood and addressed
- Building strong client relationships/friendships to maintain old business and acquire new customers with the goal to increase territory sales annually.
- Collaborating with various internal company departments to ensure that they fulfill all customer requests
- Keeping track of all processes that pertain to the clients desires and resolving complaints
- Acting as the clients representative in the company to ensure that their demands are met with a focus on improving the customer experience
- Collecting and analyzing data concerning customer behavior to understand changing needs
Desired Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in Engineering or other technical field of study (Engineering degree preferred but not required).
Comprehensive training and presentation skills to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience with and a practical understanding of the design, application, performance characteristics, and related thermodynamics (where applicable), for all types of pumps, electric motors, XLPE tanks and instrumentation control systems in industrial applications.
An independent operating skill of Windows based computer systems including Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point and Teams and general business operating systems.
The account manager shall have a valid unrestricted drivers license and be qualified for, or currently a participant, in the TSA or U.S. Coast Guard TWIC Identification Card program,
Traits/Skills Desired
A successful Sales Engineer should have various skills and qualifications that fulfill the prerequisites for your job opening, including:
- Ability to understand and communicate complex technical solutions and concepts.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate product ideas to clients.
- Up-to-date understanding of the industrys technologies and consumer behavior.
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental & Vision insurance
401k
Paid Holidays off
Paid-time off plus additional benefits
Company vehicle
Industry
- Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
Employment Type
Full time