Jobs in Headingley

Graduate Internal Sales Engineer

Leeds area

We seek a minimum HNC qualified Electronics, Control systems or Automation Engineer with ideally some relevant work placement experience to join a growing organisation in the Leeds area. A second language in particular German or French would also be of great interest.

You will initially work with existing clients maintaining relationships, processing, and managing customer orders and providing technical support. Your role as a Sales Engineer will be 80% office based in Leeds and will include:

Liaising with existing customers on a day to day basis regarding orders, post sales enquiries & issues
Providing comprehensive technical support by phone, email and face to face when necessary
Building up and managing excellent customer relationships with distributors and end users
Up selling and cross selling where possible
Researching and cold calling new and potential customers
Providing quotations, producing BOM's and purchasing from existing suppliers
Working with internal development teams and external manufacturers to ensure client specifications are met

You will be :

A confident engineer with excellent communication skills happy to take on a sales role
Hold a relevant Electronics, control systems or automation qualification minimum HNC
Have excellent communication and persuasive skills
Have confident administration and organisational skills
Be a good problem solver
Ideally have worked in a sales or customer support role
Hold a full UK driving licence

We are particularly keen to hear from people with:

A second language in particular German
Experience in ATEX environments, beneficial but not essential.
Knowledge of materials handling or special purpose machinery
Experience with sensors and instrumentation

You will work with a friendly and well-established team for a long standing business with an excellent reputation and low staff turnover. They will provide one to one training both in the UK and US and the opportunity to travel in the UK, Europe and worldwide to visit customers and provide support where necessary.

Benefits include:

Annual bonus

28 days holiday + bank holidays

3-5% pension

Travail Employment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Thanks for your application. Due to the high level of responses we are currently receiving, whilst we endeavour to contact everyone, sometimes we are unable to. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of making your application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion