Sales Engineer

TipTopJob; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

TipTopJob is seeking a Sales Engineer to win new business across the UK and Ireland, applying a strong technical understanding of balancing machines and capital equipment to discuss quotations and applications with customers.

You will visit customers, build long-term partnerships, maintain CRM records, and collaborate with product experts to deliver accurate pricing and timely information while supporting service teams.

Qualifications

• Field sales experience in industrial machinery, capital equipment, vibration monitoring, or mechanical engineering.
• Strong technical understanding of capital equipment, vibration analysis, or mechanical systems.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to engage customers, engineers, suppliers, and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Generate new sales opportunities across the UK and Ireland for balancing machines, upgrades, and related service or spares.
• Visit existing customers to discuss quotations, applications, and ongoing requirements, while strengthening long-term partnerships.
• Identify and pursue new customers across a designated territory, ensuring consistent pipeline development.
• Provide accurate quotations and commercial terms, supported by timely pricing and technical information from internal product experts.
• Maintain customer records and update the CRM regularly to keep forecasts and project tracking on point.
• Support service teams where required and keep abreast of competitor activity, sharing meaningful insights with internal stakeholders.

Skills

Field sales experience

Industrial machinery

Capital equipment

Vibration monitoring

Mechanical engineering

Excellent communication

CRM SAP familiarity

Tools

SAP

CRM systems

Job description

Step into a dynamic Sales Engineer role with a clear purpose: winning new business, solving technical customer challenges, and helping drive growth across the industrial machinery and capital equipment sector. If thriving on variety, building relationships, and turning technical knowledge into commercial success sounds like your kind of work, the Sales Engineer position with this company could be a fantastic fit. Complex or rotating machinery experience is essential for this role.

What You Will Do

• Generate new sales opportunities across the UK and Ireland for balancing machines, upgrades, and related service or spares.
• Visit existing customers to discuss quotations, applications, and ongoing requirements, while strengthening long:term partnerships.
• Identify and pursue new customers across a designated territory, ensuring consistent pipeline development.
• Provide accurate quotations and commercial terms, supported by timely pricing and technical information from internal product experts.
• Maintain customer records and update the CRM regularly to keep forecasts and project tracking on point.
• Support service teams where required and keep abreast of competitor activity, sharing meaningful insights with internal stakeholders.

What You Will Bring

• Previous field sales experience within industrial machinery, capital equipment, vibration monitoring, or mechanical engineering.
• A strong technical understanding of capital equipment, vibration analysis, or mechanical systems, with a genuine desire to keep learning.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the confidence to engage customers, engineers, suppliers, and internal teams.
• Strong organisational ability, including managing multiple priorities and working accurately under pressure.
• Competence with Microsoft Office and experience using SAP and CRM systems (or a quick aptitude to get up to speed).

This Sales Engineer role is all about enabling safe, efficient manufacturing through high:quality balancing solutions and expert automation and digitalisation. With a global engineering focus and a strong reputation in core markets such as Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Mechanical Engineering, and Green Technology, this company benefits from the right Sales Engineer who can translate customer needs into practical, technically sound proposals that support sustainable growth.

Location

This Sales Engineer role is based in the North of the UK, covering a territory along the M1 corridor between Nottingham and Leeds and further North, with travel to customer sites across the region.