Technical Applications Support Engineer Control & Automation

Rise Executive Search & Recruitment Ltd; Great Wyrley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment firm is seeking a Technical & Applications Support Engineer with expertise in electrical engineering. The role involves providing technical support to customers, developing relationships, and promoting products. Candidates should have experience with PLC, SCADA, and HMI systems. A background in sales or customer service within electrical distribution is advantageous. The position offers a negotiable salary package and requires commuting from the West Midlands area.

Benefits

Excellent negotiable salary package

Pension

Other benefits

Qualifications

• GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent) required.
• Experience with PLC, SCADA, HMI, and VSD is crucial.
• Knowledge of programming language IEC is necessary.
• Preferably have an ONC, HNC, or BSc in Electrical Engineering.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and data entry systems.
• Must hold a full clean driving license.
• Experience in a similar sales/customer service environment is favorable.

Responsibilities

• Provide sales and technical support to external customers.
• Develop and maintain customer relationships.
• Understand and be familiar with the full product range.
• Respond to and handle automation product technical inquiries.
• Liaise with Field Sales Engineers to achieve sales performance.
• Generate quotations for customers.

Skills

PLC

SCADA

HMI

VSD

Programming language IEC

Customer service experience

Sales environment experience

Education

GCSE Maths and English or equivalent

ONC / HNC / BSc in Electrical engineering or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Data entry systems

Job description

Technical & Applications Support Engineer Control & Automation Systems

Excellent Negotiable Salary Package, Pension, and other benefits.

Our Client has a requirement for a Technical Applications and Support Engineer with experience and knowledge of PLC, Scada, HMI, VSD, applications and software involved, to provide sales and technical support to the external customer base, whilst developing and maintaining customer relationships and promoting products and services to maximise sales opportunities. You are most likely to be living in Wolverhampton, Bilston, Willenhall, Wednesbury, Walsall, Brownhills, Cannock, West Bromwich, areas of the West Midlands in order to commute. Ideally you will have knowledge of a wide range of electrical market related products and are likely to have strengths in more than one product area. This could be industrial electrical, control & automation / factory automation / process control including functional safety, IIOT, HMI’s, PLC’s, programming language IEC, variable speed drives, instrumentation, industrial data comms, sensors.

As the Technical Support Engineer you will respond to and handle automation product technical enquiries. You will be required, with training, to understand and be familiar with the full product range with the ability to offer alternatives if required and advise on the selection of products where possible. You will liaise with Field Sales Engineers and other staff to achieve the branch objectives and sales performance and as is normal in a team environment engage in other duties. It is also expected that you have commercial ability and awareness to generate quotation for customers and are competent to judge the competitive situation needed to win the order whilst being mindful of profitability.

In order to perform this role successfully you will need technical electrical knowledge, there is flexibility on the qualification if you can illustrate your knowledge, product applications knowledge and commercial awareness. The ideal candidate may already be in a similar role as an internal sales engineer, technical support engineer, an electrical engineer looking to move into a commercial environment with the ability to illustrate good customer and administrative skills, or a graduate engineer with customer experience in a sales environment looking to develop their career in technical sales.

Knowledge and Experience

• GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent)
• PLC, SCADA, HMI, VSD experience
• programming language IEC
• Probably ONC / HNC / BSc in Electrical engineering (or other electrical engineering qualification)
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and data entry systems
• Full clean driving license
• Experience in similar sales / customer service environment.
• Experience with an electrical engineering role, or a background in electrical distribution would be an advantage.

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To register your interest contact us with an up to date CV and we will be pleased to call you for a confidential discussion.