Technical Sales Engineer

Job Summary

A leading wastewater and water treatment equipment design and manufacturing company is looking for an experienced Technical Sales Engineer with strong experience in technical/solution sales of industrial capital equipment and direct sector experience in mining, food & beverage, industrial manufacturing or oil & gas to join their team in Alberton. The role is field-based with 40–60% travel and focuses on vertical-aligned solution selling, selling complete multi-item treatment solutions rather than individual catalogue items.

Key Responsibilities

• Assume responsibility for an assigned vertical, including its named accounts, relevant trigger events, and its twelve-month campaign plan.
• Sell across the full offering, including the company’s own manufactured equipment and represented agency lines, assembled into designed, multi-item solutions rather than quoted individually.
• Conduct site surveys and circuit audits, interpret effluent and flow data, and work with the Engineering department to size and select equipment.
• Build relationships with EPCs, consulting engineers and contractors active within the assigned vertical, and secure specification of equipment at design stage.
• Provide structured field input to inform product development, including identified gaps in the current scope, the extent of demand, and indicative value.
• Present at least one technical session per year to consulting engineers within the assigned vertical.
• Maintain accurate and current CRM records, and submit complete, well-briefed quotation requests to the internal sales desk.

Requirements

• Essential: BEng, BTech or National Diploma in Mechanical, Chemical, Process, Civil or Water engineering, or demonstrably equivalent engineering experience.
• Essential: Direct experience in the vertical applied for — mining, food & beverage, industrial manufacturing, or oil & gas.
• Essential: Five or more years in technical or solution sales of industrial capital equipment, with a verifiable record of closing multi-item or plant-level orders.
• Essential: Able to read and interpret P&IDs, general arrangement drawings, process flow diagrams and equipment datasheets.
• Essential: Commercial numeracy covering margin, landed cost, escalation, payment terms, life-cycle cost and payback calculations.
• Essential: Valid driver’s licence and genuine willingness to travel 40–60% of the time, including to plant and mine sites.
• Essential: Physically able and prepared to work on operating industrial sites, subject to relevant safety inductions and medical assessments.
• Advantageous: Working knowledge of wastewater unit processes — screening, grit removal, clarification, thickening, dewatering and aeration.
• Advantageous: An established personal network among end users, EPCs and consulting engineers active within the relevant vertical.
• Advantageous: Experience selling through EPCs, consulting engineers and formal tender processes.
• Advantageous: ECSA registration (Pr Eng, Pr Tech Eng or Pr Techni Eng).

Remuneration & Benefits

• Salary: negotiable.

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