Sales Engineer

About the role

This role sits at the intersection of technical development and commercial execution. Half the job is winning the work; the other half is defining what we're building.

Responsibilities

• Sales Support — Join client calls and site visits as the technical voice of the sales team. You can walk a CFO through a WEPA structure and discuss a proposed treatment train with a plant engineer in the same meeting. You understand the sales process and help move deals forward by answering questions credibly, identifying technical risks early, and giving clients confidence in Cambrian's approach. You will then need to interface with counsel and ensure that the commercial contract is aligned with the technical scope and business arrangement.
• FEL-1 Project Management — Once a deal reaches MOU, you own the development timeline. You run site visits, coordinate data collection, manage third-party contributors, and track every open item. Clients hear from you regularly with clear status. Nothing waits because it wasn't assigned.
• Initial Design Development — Starting from influent characterization, flow rates, and discharge requirements, you develop treatment train options, screen them against capital and operating cost targets, and produce a design basis sufficient to support an EPC RFP. You know what works and why, and you can defend a recommendation to a client's own engineering team.
• EPC Procurement — You write the RFP, manage the bidder list, run the technical review of responses, and deliver a clear recommendation to the project team. You understand what an EPC needs to price a job accurately and where gaps in scope create cost overruns later.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in industrial water or wastewater treatment, with hands-on involvement in developing treatment concepts from a blank page. Food and beverage, energy, or chemical sector experience is relevant; greenfield or new-facility project experience is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated ability to run a pre-FEED or FEL-equivalent process: site data collection, treatment train development, initial cost framing, and handoff to EPC procurement.
• Genuine comfort in customer-facing settings. You have been on sales calls, walked plant floors with clients, and navigated technical questions in real time. You know how to build credibility with an engineering team and trust with a business stakeholder.
• Experience with ClickUp and HubSpot, or comparable project management and CRM tools, and the discipline to keep them accurate.
• B.S. in environmental, chemical, or civil engineering. P.E. is not required.