Sales Application Engineer

Chart Industries, Inc.; La Crosse (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Chart Industries in La Crosse, WI, seeks a Sales/Application Engineer to design and apply brazed aluminum heat exchangers and support sales efforts. You will craft technically sound proposals, collaborate across teams, and engage customers with clear, persuasive communication.

The role requires a BS in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering and exposure to thermodynamics, with travel up to 15% for client meetings. Office-based in La Crosse with growth into senior sales responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering with coop/internship experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to sell ideas to customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and apply brazed aluminum heat exchangers for air separation and hydrocarbon processing.
• Pursue optimized, low-cost BAHX and packaging solutions meeting customer specs.
• Review client inquiries for technical and commercial requirements.
• Prepare portions of complete client proposals; coordinate with pricing, scheduling, and manufacturing teams.
• Communicate with customers and Chart sales reps to clarify requirements; travel to client offices for meetings.
• Collaborate with Development Engineers to improve design tools' calculations and functionality.
• Handle special marketing projects such as customer presentations and sales literature.
• Aim to transition into a senior sales engineer role with outside sales responsibility.

Skills

Communication

Self-starter

Organized

Sales mindset

Thermodynamics/Heat transfer

Team collaboration

Willing to travel

Programming basics

Education

BS in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering

Tools

HYSYS

HTFS MUSE

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

Location: La Crosse, WI, United States, 54601

Company: Chart Industries

Chart Energy & Chemicals - located in La Crosse, Wisconsin – is the leading designer and manufacturer of cryogenic brazed aluminum heat exchangers (BAHX). Our unique product is used in the production of LNG and other process systems related to the energy market. Chart is the only producer of large BAHX in the U.S. and is a leader in the global markets we serve. Chart’s continued financial growth and current plant expansion offers exciting and challenging career opportunities for career seeking individuals. Primary responsibilities include product selection and product application as well as sales and marketing requirements for a high tech, brazed aluminum heat exchangers and other complementary products.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be...

• Custom design and application of brazed aluminum heat exchangers for air separation, hydrocarbon processing and other applications. Design responsibilities include detailed thermal/hydraulic and preliminary mechanical design solutions.
• Sales/Application Engineer will pursue: optimized, low-cost, manufacture- able heat exchanger (BAHX) and packaging (MSD) solutions that meet the technical specifications and expectations of our customers.
• Review client inquires for technical and commercial requirements.
• Prepare portions of or complete client proposals (as appropriate). Proper coordination with other personnel and departments will be required to obtain costing, pricing, scheduling, manufacturing capabilities, legal, finance and other required inputs.
• Communicate with customers and Chart sales representatives as required to fully understand all technical and/or commercial requirements. Travel to the client offices for pre-award meetings or clarification meetings assisting senior sales engineers as required.
• Work with Development Engineers to develop and implement improvements to the calculation methods and functionality of the thermal/hydraulic and preliminary mechanical design tools.
• Handle special marketing projects, including such items as customer presentations, sales literature, etc. as required.
• Expected that with experience, the candidate will transition into a senior sales engineer role with outside sales responsibility.

Your Education Should Be...

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering from a four-year college or university; and one to two semesters of coop or internship experience in an engineering capacity.

Your Professional Experience Should Be...

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on the ability to sell ideas and concepts to others (customers and/or other employees).
• Driven, self-starter with the ability to accomplish goals in a timely manner. Must also be able to change priorities quickly to adapt to a fast moving project situation.
• Organized and a logical thinker.
• Possess a high level of versatility and empathy. Be able to work well with people at all levels of an organization, including customers and field sales personnel.
• Willingness to travel up to 15% of the time, including overseas, and meet customers in face-to-face situations.
• Interested in a career for a technical sales.
• Strong background in thermodynamics and heat transfer
• Experience with HYSYS, HTFS MUSE Software.
• Knowledge of computer programming.
• Excel, Word, PowerPoint (Office) experience

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…

This position will be in an office setting.

Chart Industries is an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicants because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, military status, marital status, genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law. Additionally, it is and shall continue to be our policy to provide promotion and advancement opportunities in a non-discriminatory fashion.

Chart complies with applicable local, state, and federal statutes governing “equal employment opportunity” and nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leave of absence, compensation and training.