Senior Sales Engineer - Project Construction & Residential

About the role

The Senior Sales Engineer will sell assigned product lines to targeted customers in targeted market areas. This role is a hybrid position requiring candidates to reside within 50 miles of San Antonio, TX or Corpus Christi, TX.

Responsibilities

• Provide sales and technical assistance with distributors, contractors, end users, and electrical group personnel
• Facilitate problem resolutions with customers, warehouses, and plants
• Review and interpret customer needs on plans and specifications
• Offer timely and accurate information for order entry, elevate quality issues, and ensure accurate information flows to market intelligence
• Support distributor inventories and inventory turns by recommending specific products and levels to be stocked
• Prepare and present bids and quotations to customers using company price and delivery guidelines while using sound business judgment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum three (3) years of electrical industry experience
• Possession of a valid driver’s license

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
• Electrical product knowledge
• Technical solutions built around customer needs
• Time management skills
• Negotiating skills
• Experience with preparing sales proposals that meet customer expectations
• Robust presentation & training skills
• Experience utilizing value-added selling techniques
• Strong work ethic, competitiveness, willingness to learn, and adept at building relationships
• Experience working with Bidmanager and Vista
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Benefits

Compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. The target total compensation range is $107,250 - $157,300. Specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. For more details, please refer to Eaton Benefits Overview.