Internal Sales Engineer

GBR Recruitment Limited; Corby; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

GBR Recruitment Ltd are assisting a leading specialist vehicle and plant machinery business to recruit an experienced Internal Sales Engineer. The role focuses on technical engineering support, including drawings, product specifications and weight calculations, plus product support and training.

You will be an experienced Sales Engineer, Technical Engineer or Inside Sales Engineer moving into an office-based role, with a background in agricultural, construction or municipal machinery and AutoCAD

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering or equivalent.
• Experience in plant/machinery environments (agriculture, construction, municipal, etc.).
• Strong understanding of high-value capital vehicle products.
• Experience dealing with OEMs.
• Proficiency in technical drawing (AutoCAD).

Responsibilities

• Produce technical drawings, product specs and weight calculations for chassis mounted equipment.
• Liaise with OEMs, chassis manufacturers and bodybuilders to ensure specs and installation requirements are met.
• Proactively supporting the sales team with high capital machinery sales.
• Help ensure products meet customer specifications and requirements.
• Provide technical and specification support for all customer orders.
• Serve as the key technical linchpin between sales and workshop.
• Support the sales department with tender bids and proposals ensuring specs are met.
• Play a key role in new product development and service solutions.
• Develop and maintain relationships with 3rd party suppliers including chassis suppliers and other equipment suppliers.
• Coordinate with internal departments regarding product specs and pricing.
• Carry out product training.

Skills

Technical drawing

Customer liaison

Sales support

Industry experience in plant/machinery

Education

Degree in engineering, mechanical field

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

GBR Recruitment Ltd are delighted to be working exclusively with a leading specialist vehicle & specialist plant machinery business, recruiting for an experienced Internal Sales Engineer, to provide technical engineering support (technical drawings, product specifications, weight calculations etc.), plus product support & product range training.

You will be time served in a Sales Enginneer, Technical Engineer, Inside Sales Engineer, Technical Sales Support Engineer role or a experienced Field Engineer or Workshop Engineer that wants to step into an office based role.

The ideal engineering professional will come from agriculture machinery, mobile plant machinery, construction machinery, municipal machinery, off highway machinery, forklift trucks, HGV's or similar high capital machinery.

This position offers the opportunity to work across a vast array of speciaist machinery.

Duties:

• Produce technical drawings, product specifications & weight calculations for chassis mounted equipment.
• Liaise with OEMs, chassis manufacturers, bodybuilders & relevant bodybuilder portals to ensure technical specifications & installation requirements are met.
• Proactively supporting the sales team with high capital machinery sales
• Helping to ensure products meet customer specifications & requirements
• Technical & specification support for all customer orders
• The key technical linchpin between the sales department & the workshop
• Support the sales department with tender bids & proposals ensuring technical specifications are met in full.
• Play a key role in NPD & services solutions for customers
• Develop & maintain strong relationships with 3rd party suppliers including vehicle chassis suppliers & other suppliers of ancillary equipment
• Liaise with internal departments regarding product specifications & pricing
• Carry out product training

Attributes:

• Degree in engineering, mechanical field or similar
• Experience in similar, technical environment role i.e. plant machinery, agricultural machinery, municipal machinery etc.
• Strong understanding of high-value capital vehicle products
• Used to dealing with OEMs
• Technical drawing experience (AutoCAD)

Interviews are to take place ASAP