Sales Application Engineer

Siemens Energy; Jakarta Timur; On-site; IDR 532,410,488 - 798,615,732; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Energy invites applications for a Sales Application Engineer to join our Malaysian team. You will be part of an extensive service network in Asia Pacific and worldwide, supporting qualified proposals and commercial offers for service-based work.

The role emphasizes technical and commercial accuracy, stakeholder engagement, and process improvements across regions to grow the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field preferred.
• 3-5 years’ experience with major electrical contractor and quotations for service-based work.
• Engineering role experience or site/field service background beneficial.
• Experience in High-Voltage transmission industry in Asia Pacific.
• Proficient IT skills: Word, Excel; SAP and Salesforce.

Responsibilities

• Review RFQs and develop technical and commercial offers with key scope.
• Lead cost integration and risk assessment prior to final pricing.
• Prepare tender docs including drawings, BOMs, data sheets, QHSE docs.
• Prepare RFQs for outside purchases and coordinate with supply chain.
• Interface with operations, engineering, and factories to optimize offerings.
• Identify cost/time savings in proposal development and lessons learned.
• Support sales during promotions, site visits and negotiations.
• Manage orders and revisions to orders; handle spare parts and supplier orders.
• Support development of proposal resources and go-to-market approaches.
• Propose localization and process improvements to grow the business.

Skills

Professional English

Cross-cultural teamwork

Client requirements understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

SAP

Salesforce

Job description

A Snapshot of your day

Are you passionate about the energy sector? Do you like understanding the client’s needs and supporting them with finding new and innovative solutions to achieve them? Are you enthusiastic about identifying the latest and most innovative opportunities to support the business?

Siemens Energy has an exciting opportunity for you as a Sales Application Engineer within our Malaysian team. You will become part of an extensive service network in Asia Pacific and worldwide.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Review Request for Quotations (RFQ) received from customers and develop and prepare technical and commercial offers with identification of key scope that highlights our OEM value.
• Lead the overall cost integration and analysis with consideration for technical and commercial risk assessment prior to arriving at final pricing.
• Collate and prepare tender documentation including drawings, technical data sheets, bill of materials, method statements, project plans, QHSE documentation, time schedules, etc.
• Prepare outside purchase equipment RFQs and work together with the regional supply chain manager(s) to engage and align for a compliant offer.
• Interface with operations, engineering, and factories throughout the world to optimize our technical and commercial offerings and resolve configurations and technical changes including prioritization of works as required.
• Identify cost and time‑saving opportunities within the proposal development process or stemming from Non‑Conformance instances as Lessons Learned and implement process improvement initiatives.
• Provide support to sales during product promotions, site walk‑downs and visits, negotiations, and follow‑up activities as necessary.
• Prepare, review and book customer orders / revisions to orders as well as order management for spare parts and handling orders to our factories and suppliers.
• Support development of proposal resource library (both text and visual aids) and provide input into business cases and go‑to‑market approaches.
• Investigate and provide recommendations on ways to further localize scope, improve processes and grow the business.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field is preferred.
• 3-5 years’ experience working for a major electrical contractor, with proven experience in the preparation of quotations for service‑based work.
• Working experience in an engineering role or as a site/field service technical expert would be beneficial.
• Experience and knowledge of the High Voltage transmission industry in Malaysia and throughout Asia Pacific.
• Positive attitude to work in a challenging environment and to embrace a high performance culture.
• Understands cultural differences and copes with them effectively.
• Strong competence in using IT tools including Microsoft (especially Microsoft Word and Excel), SAP, and Salesforce applications.
• Professional English required; additional Asian languages will be a benefit.

Rewards / Benefits

• Be a trusted advisor to both your internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop your technical and soft skills working with cross‑functional teams.
• Numerous further training opportunities (technical, soft skills, etc.) are available to you on the Siemens Energy Learning platform.