Electrical Sales Engineer (Medium Voltage Drives)

Job Title: Electrical Sales Engineer (medium voltage drives)

Pay Rate: $30 to $33.65/Hr

Duration: 6 Months (possibility of further extension or permanent conversion based on performance)

Location: Remote, but should ideally be in the commutable area in the Pittsburgh area for training and to provide equipment.

Shift: Work Time Start: Between 7 am- 9 am / Work End Time: Between 3 pm- 5 pm

This position is for the Low- and medium-voltage motors, large drives, and the integrated motor-drive system division.

We are looking for an Electrical Sales Engineer (medium voltage drives) who will be responsible for the end-to-end completion of high-quality proposals, quotations, bids and tender responses, which are both technically and commercially aligned with the client’s specifications for medium voltage drives.

• Timely preparation of detailed engineering proposals for the medium voltage drives product line.
• Accurately interpret the client’s technical specification and produce a compliant technical proposal, offering more suitable alternatives where appropriate.
• Accurately interpret the client’s commercial requirements and ensure any commercial or contractual risks to the company are identified and mitigated.
• Ensure proposals, pricing, and estimating are in line with the company’s agreed strategies on sales and marketing, charge-out rates and availability of engineering resources.
• Act as a single point of contact for customers, outside sales and our representative channel and undertake a negotiating role when preparing costed proposals.
• Arrange and take a lead role in ‘bid review’, ‘bid clarification’ and ‘sales handover’ meetings.
• Write high-quality technical and commercial documents and reports and present them to both internal and external audiences.
• Liaise with internal collaborators to assist in collating accurate data for the preparation of proposals.

Requirements

• BS/BA in Electrical Engineering, or advanced degree, where required, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Certification may be required in some areas.
• 1-3 years of experience in the related field and successful demonstration of Responsibilities as presented above. An advanced degree MAY be substituted for experience, where applicable.
• Experience in business for medium voltage inverter products.
• Strong skills in communication, organisational change and influencing without authority.
• Experience and strong abilities in the use of tools for proposal development.
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge in the field of specialisation or multiple subject areas through the successful completion of sophisticated assignments.
• It optimally serves as a point of authority and/or a source of technical/scientific knowledge for the area of expertise.
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of the organisation's business practices and issues faced, and contributes to problem resolution of those issues. •