Job Summary
The Sales and Service Engineer is responsible for both technical sales support and after-sales service for the company’s industrial inspection and equipment portfolio. This role combines customer-facing sales activities with hands-on technical service, including product demonstrations, application support, troubleshooting, maintenance, training, and customer follow-up.
The position is suitable for a technically inclined individual who can understand customer requirements, propose suitable solutions, support equipment demonstrations, and ensure customers receive reliable after-sales service. The Sales and Service Engineer plays an important role in building customer confidence, supporting revenue growth, and strengthening long-term customer relationships.
Key Responsibilities
1. Sales & Business Development Support
- Identify and develop new sales opportunities with existing and potential customers.
- Support the sales team in customer visits, technical discussions, product presentations, and solution proposals.
- Understand customer applications, inspection challenges, technical requirements, and budget considerations.
- Recommend suitable products, accessories, software, consumables, or services based on customer needs.
- Follow up on enquiries, demonstrations, quotations, and pending opportunities.
- Maintain regular communication with customers to build long-term business relationships.
- Assist in achieving sales targets, revenue growth, and customer development objectives.
2. Product Demonstration & Application Support
- Prepare and conduct product demonstrations at customer sites, company premises, exhibitions, or online meetings.
- Set up demo equipment, accessories, probes, software, batteries, chargers, consumables, and related tools before each demonstration.
- Demonstrate equipment features, operation, measurement functions, software workflow, and application suitability.
- Capture customer feedback, application details, inspection samples, and technical concerns for follow-up.
- Prepare demo findings, trial reports, and application notes where required.
- Work with principals or manufacturers to clarify technical questions and application feasibility.
3. Technical Service & Maintenance
- Perform equipment inspection, functional testing, troubleshooting, repair coordination, and preventive maintenance.
- Diagnose equipment faults and recommend corrective actions, repair options, or replacement parts.
- Conduct pre-delivery checks, post-demo checks, and post-rental equipment inspections.
- Coordinate with suppliers or principals for warranty claims, repair authorization, spare parts, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Prepare service reports, fault findings, repair recommendations, and customer updates.
- Ensure service cases are followed through until completion.
4. Installation, Commissioning & Handover
- Support installation and commissioning of equipment at customer sites.
- Verify that equipment supplied is complete, functional, and ready for operation.
- Conduct handover briefing to customers on basic operation, safety precautions, care, storage, and maintenance.
- Obtain customer acknowledgement for successful delivery, training, or commissioning where required.
- Ensure all accessories, manuals, certificates, and relevant documents are properly handed over.
5. Customer Training
- Provide user training for customers on equipment operation, inspection workflow, software usage, measurement functions, and basic troubleshooting.
- Conduct refresher training for existing customers when required.
- Prepare basic training materials, attendance records, and training completion documentation.
- Ensure customers understand correct usage to reduce misuse, downtime, and unnecessary service issues.
6. After-Sales Support & Customer Care
- Provide first-line technical support to customers through phone, email, video call, or site visit.
- Respond promptly to customer technical enquiries, operational issues, and service requests.
- Follow up with customers after delivery, demonstration, repair, or training to ensure satisfaction.
- Identify opportunities for additional accessories, upgrades, software, service contracts, calibration, or replacement units.
- Maintain strong customer relationships by providing reliable and professional support.
7. Quotation & Proposal Support
- Assist in preparing quotations, technical proposals, compliance responses, and product recommendations.
- Provide input on suitable equipment configuration, accessories, software, probes, service scope, and training requirements.
- Support tender submissions by preparing technical documents, datasheets, brochures, certificates, and compliance information.
- Highlight technical or commercial risks relating to customer requirements, delivery, warranty, service scope, or product suitability.
8. Demo, Rental & Inventory Management
- Maintain company demo, rental, and loan equipment in good working condition.
- Ensure equipment is checked before and after every demo, rental, or customer evaluation.
- Track accessories such as probes, tips, batteries, chargers, cables, software dongles, targets, consumables, and cases.
- Report missing, damaged, or faulty equipment immediately.
- Maintain service records, equipment movement records, and inventory checklists.
9. Site Work & Safety Compliance
- Attend customer sites such as workshops, factories, shipyards, refineries, power plants, aerospace MRO facilities, offshore facilities, and industrial plants.
- Comply with all customer site safety rules, permit-to-work requirements, PPE requirements, and company HSSE policies.
- Perform site activities safely and professionally.
- Support regional assignments, overseas site visits, and project deployments when required.
10. Principal & Supplier Coordination
- Communicate with manufacturers and principals for technical clarifications, product updates, repair support, warranty matters, and service training.
- Provide principals with fault details, photos, videos, serial numbers, software logs, and application information when escalation is required.
- Attend supplier product training and share relevant knowledge internally.
- Keep updated on new products, software updates, service procedures, and industry applications.
11. Reporting & Documentation
- Prepare accurate and timely service reports, demo reports, customer visit reports, and technical findings.
- Update sales activities, opportunity status, customer feedback, and service case progress.
- Maintain proper documentation for equipment service history, warranty status, calibration records, and customer interactions.
- Submit weekly or monthly reports as required by management.
Product / Technology Areas
- Remote visual inspection systems / borescopes
- Industrial videoscopes and probes
- Non-destructive testing equipment
- Acoustic gas leak detection systems
- Passing valve detection systems
- Surface measurement and tactile imaging systems
- 3D scanning and corrosion mapping systems
- Metrology and inspection software
- Industrial inspection cameras and accessories
- Calibration, repair, rental, and service-related solutions