Job Opportunity Information
Position Title
Sales Engineer
Position Type
Sales
Location
Joure, The Netherlands
Language(s)
English, Dutch
Added on
Thursday, February 20th 2025
Deadline to apply
2025-03-31
Job Description
The Sales Engineer is responsible for the technical and commercial handling of the sales activities. These activities are very diverse and can include long-term processes that require a great deal of consultation, punctuality, and perseverance. You deliver technical-priced solutions with the team where initiative, critical attitude, and resolving power are key to success.
Within the DMT commercial process, the Sales Engineer provides the Sales, Services, and Business Development departments with fit-for-purpose, accurate designs and proposals. To achieve this, punctual administration is requested, flow diagrams and layouts are prepared, process and price calculations are made, and suppliers are contacted.
The Proposal Engineer possesses both technical (process) knowledge and commercial skills to share knowledge with potential clients, clarify demands and make an inventory of relevant factors that influence the progress and the end result. Being the technical expert in sales meetings, the Proposal Engineer works together with the Area Sales Managers.
With a critical mindset, the Proposal Engineer, in collaboration with team members, ensures continuous improvement of department tools and processes. The position has a unique role within the organization, shaping our future towards sustainable standard modular configurations, which are configured during the sales phases.
Due to the wide variety of responsibilities, there is never a dull moment, and the position ensures a continuous learning curve from a personal, technical, and commercial standpoint.
Responsibilities
- Customer and service-oriented
- Excellent communication skills to find a fit-for-purpose solution for our customers
- Able to communicate well with the various departments for coordination and consultation
- Able to prioritize and to work towards firm deadlines
- Structured and methodical approach to tackle technical challenges
- Has a solution-oriented attitude and an administratively accurate approach
Job Qualifications
- Process / Chemical or mechanical (or similar) bachelor’s degree
- 2 – 10 years experience in a similar, mechanical or process engineering position (gas, oil or other industrial installations), where you have worked on larger rotating parts (compressors, pumps, process systems etc.)
- Acquires broad technical product knowledge (mostly process, mechanical and electrical) to find the most attractive solutions for customers
- Experience and ability in reading and interpreting diagrams, drawings, and blueprints to ensure accuracy and clarity to the sales team and customers in a credible manner; acting as the technical expert on the sales team
- Enthusiastic to learn new software programs. For instance, to simulate and calculate the amount of membranes for biogas upgrading facilities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, especially Word, Excel and Visio or willing to learn
Job specific competencies
- Result-oriented
- Problem analysis
- Networking
- Attention to detail
- Teamplayer
How to apply
https://workingatdmt.com/vacancy/proposal-engineer/