Welding Engineer - Technical Sales Representative

Linde plc; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 108,225 - 128,730; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and life insurance

Paid holidays and vacation

Opportunities for educational and professional growth

Job summary

Linde plc in Tacoma, WA is seeking a Welding Engineer - Technical Sales Representative to conduct detailed assessments of customer welding processes and procedures. Ideal candidates have over 7 years of outside sales experience in welding or industrial equipment.

This role entails delivering technical demonstrations, developing value-based proposals, and collaborating with engineering and sales teams. Strong technical understanding of welding processes is essential. Linde offers competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of outside sales experience in welding or industrial equipment.
• Welding Inspector or Educator certification preferred.
• High integrity and commitment to safety.

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed on-site assessments of customer processes.
• Deliver technical product demonstrations and performance evaluations.
• Analyze market trends to support territory strategy.

Skills

Welding processes (GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, SAW)

Negotiation skills

Collaboration

Technical understanding of welding

Customer relationship building

Education

Associate degree in welding technology or similar

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Welding Engineer - Technical Sales Representative

Tacoma, WA, United States | req31242

Responsibilities

• You will conduct detailed on site assessments of customer fabrication processes, welding procedures, consumable usage, and workflow efficiency. Identify productivity improvements through optimized gases, consumables, welding parameters, automation readiness, and process standardization.
• Deliver technical product demonstrations, performance evaluations, and competitive comparisons.
• Further, you will analyze market trends, competitor activity, and customer needs to support territory strategy.
• Develop value-based proposals that quantify cost savings, throughput gains, and quality improvements.
• Collaborate with sales, engineering, and operations teams to align solutions with customer requirements.
• And you will support additional technical and commercial initiatives as needed. Lead the full sales cycle for automated capital equipment including robotics, welding automation, CNC automation, and material handling systems.
• Perform on-site evaluations to identify production bottlenecks and automation opportunities.
• Create ROI models, cost benefit analyses, and productivity improvement justifications for capital investments.
• You will provide system walk throughs, automation demonstrations, and technical evaluations.
• Work with engineering teams to design system configurations, layouts, and integration plans for customers and secure long‑term relationships through straightforward agreements.

Qualifications

• You have an associate degree in welding technology or similar; Bachelor's degree in Engineering is preferred.
• More than seven (7+) years of outside sales experience, ideally in welding, fabrication, or industrial equipment.
• Strong technical understanding of welding processes (GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, SAW), shielding gases, consumables, and fabrication workflows.
• Prior industry experience is required.
• Welding Inspector or Welding Educator certification preferred.
• You have proven negotiation and value selling skills.
• High integrity and a strong commitment to safety.
• Ability to build trust, influence decisions, and collaborate across teams. Results‑driven mindset with strong accountability.

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high‑quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra‑high‑purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life‑saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state‑of‑the‑art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

Benefits

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you’re looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational level. Build your future with us while making an impact every day!

Pay Range: $108,225 - $128,730 yearly based on experience

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. acts responsibly toward its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

*The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.