POSITION SUMMARY:
Working as part of the Monitoring Technologies Group, the Technical Sales Engineer will drive the sale of testing and monitoring equipment to a wide range of industries. This is a client facing role, working to provide solutions sales to our clients monitoring projects using new and existing technologies, focused on our proprietary Acoustic Emission technologies.
Annual Salary- $95,000
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES/ACTIVITIES:
Lead Generation & Market Awareness
- Drive sales growth by identifying and qualifying new business opportunities in the testing and monitoring equipment market.
- Attend industry trade shows, conferences, and customer events to promote products and generate leads.
- Stay informed on industry trends, competitor solutions, and emerging technologies.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers and stakeholders within client organizations.
Customer Engagement & Requirement Gathering
- Collaborate with internal teams to understand customer needs and technical requirements.
- Analyze customer challenges and recommend tailored technical solutions.
- Guide discussions around solution design to meet customers' monitoring or testing objectives.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to customize solutions based on client requirements.
- Become the voice of the customer and be involved in the commercialization of solutions.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of the product portfolio, including features, specifications, and applications relevant to diverse customer environments.
Solution Presentation & Proposal Development
- Deliver technical presentations and product demonstrations to prospective clients.
- Respond to RFPs and RFQs by developing compelling and competitive technical sales proposals.
- Collaborate with sales teams to develop strategic account plans and deliver on revenue targets.
Closing the Sale
- Negotiate contract terms in collaboration with commercial teams, ensuring both technical and financial viability.
- Take a lead position in converting technical proposals to active projects and product sales.
Post-Sale Support & Continuous Improvement
- Serve as the primary point of contact to address customer questions and challenges.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and enhance customer experience.
- Provide insights and feedback to product teams to influence roadmaps and feature development.
YOUR PROFILE AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:
- Previous experience in a client-facing role, ideally within a technical sales/support environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil, Structural, Mechanical or Materials Engineering is desirable.
- Ability to see a project from proposal to commercial deployment and serve as a liaison with customers during the inception and deployment of the developed solution.
- Experience writing clear technical specifications, proposals and presentations.
- Knowledge of hardware systems, including monitoring technologies such as sensors, data acquisition systems and IoT devices.
- Previous experience in designing and implementing monitoring solutions for real-time data collection and analysis.
- Proven ability to integrate sensors, data acquisition systems, and monitoring devices into larger hardware or software ecosystems, including cloud or edge computing platforms.
- Familiarity with designing and deploying monitoring systems for challenging conditions, such as extreme temperatures, explosive atmospheres or remote locations.
- Understanding of equipment, machine, material, and process failures in the industries served.
- A passion for monitoring advancements and staying updated on industry trends, including predictive maintenance, remote monitoring, and IoT.
- Experience of working as part of a diverse team with different skill sets and experience levels.
- Willingness to travel to client or manufacturing sites for deploying and troubleshooting monitoring technologies.
- Demonstratable communication skills including reporting, professionalism, and promotion of a positive customer service attitude both internally and externally.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines with good problem-solving skills, and to work flexibly to achieve business goals.
- Ability to read mechanical and electrical drawings is desirable.
- Computer literate in MS Office with previous experience in technical report and proposal writing.
- Good organizational and record keeping skills.
This is a remote position based in California.
ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS:
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Fulltime positions with competitive wages and benefits that include health, dental, vision
and 401(k).
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