Sales Engineer Mechanical Engineering
Job Title: Business Development Manager Mechanical Engineering
Industry Sector: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial, Fabrication, Animal Feed Milling, Beaters, Screens, Wearparts, Granulated Machinery Screens, Industrial Screens, Tyre Processing, Plastic & Green Waste Recycling, Architectural, Staircases & Stairwells, Balustrade Panels, Perforated Sheet Panels, Sheet Metal Fabricators
Area to be covered: National ideally based South Yorkshire
Remuneration: £40,000-£43,000 Neg. + £2,000 Bonus
Benefits: Car Allowance or EV after probation & full benefits package
The role of the Sales Engineer- Mechanical Engineering will involve:
Field sales role covering nationally, although the majority of our clients customers are based between the M62 and M4 corridor
40% of your time selling hardened tungsten carbide tipped beaters, screens & wearparts into animal feed milling (straw & grass processing products)
40% selling industrial screens for granulated machinery used in plastic recycling and green waste processing (targeting Manufacturing Managers, Engineering Managers, Plant Engineer within high end recycling businesses such as Veolia, Biffa, Viridor etc.)
Remaining 20% of your time selling perforated metal products such as balustrades, staircases and stairwells into architectural fabricators working for main contractors
Majority of your time will be focussed on winning new business (split 50% cross selling and upselling within existing customers and 50% new business development within new sectors such as selling into local authorities)
Inheriting circa 50 active customer accounts
Tasked with generating approx. £300,000 of new business revenue
Liaising with engineering, production and technical functions as required
Three/four days a week on the road vesting customers, rest of time working from home or in the office (minimum one day a week in the South Yorkshire offices
The ideal applicant will be a Sales Engineer Mechanical Engineering with:
Mechanical engineering field sales experience
Open to a mechanical engineer looking for first field sales position
Must be able to read engineering drawings
Basic technical understand so as to advise potential customer if the products required can me fabricated
Knowledge of engineered granulated screens, beaters, screens & wearparts is not essential but may be useful
Ideally some industrial screens experience in recycling based products/ processes (e.g. in plastics recycling)
Self-starter/ pro-active in nature
Looking for a long term career move
New business tenacity
Ideally a bachelors degree or equivalent in a mechanical engineering discipline
Low-medium tech small company environment, may not suit someone from a large corporate background unless they have worked for a smaller team/ division
The Company:
Established 50 years
Privately held
Family owned
20+ employees
£2.5m+ UK turnover
Mitchell Maguire is a specialist construction field sales recruitment consultancy, dealing exclusively with construction field sales jobs, construction field sales vacancies and specification field sales positions within: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial, Fabrication, Architectural, Staircases & Stairwells, Balustrade Panels, Perforated Sheet Panels, Sheet Metal Fabricators, Animal Feed Milling, Beaters, Screens, Wearparts, Granulated Machinery Screens, Tyre Processing, Plastic & Green Waste Recycling
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