Sales Engineer 2

The Sales Engineer 2 is CORE Transformers' senior technical and commercial authority for new construction projects, serving as the subject matter expert who guides bid strategy on our most complex, highest-stakes opportunities in hyperscale data centers, renewable energy, and industrial new-build markets. This role operates as a working technical leader for the Sales Engineer group — providing hands-on technical mentorship, commercial judgment, and market intelligence that raises the capability of the broader team. The focus of this position is to drive the deep experience, engineering judgment, and market knowledge that determine whether CORE wins the bid and executes it correctly — without being limited to any single scope of work.

Key Responsibilities:

• New Construction Bid Leadership: Serve as the senior technical and commercial lead on complex new construction bids, shaping scope, specification interpretation, and win strategy on the projects with the highest engineering complexity and commercial risk.
• Commercial Guidance on Complex Quotes: Provide commercial judgment on pricing strategy, risk positioning, and scope trade-offs for non-standard, engineered-to-order proposals — translating technical complexity into a defensible, winning commercial position.
• Market Intelligence & Strategic Guidance: Act as CORE's market guide for the new construction segment — tracking competitor positioning, spec trends, utility and developer requirements, and pricing dynamics, and translating that intelligence into guidance the Sales Engineer 1 team can act on.
• Working Team Leadership & Development: Serve as a hands-on, working leader for the Sales Engineer 1 group — reviewing complex quotes, coaching technical and commercial reasoning, acting as the escalation point for difficult specifications, and building the team's capability to take on more complex work over time.
• Technical Spec Review (Complex Projects): Analyze customer drawings, one-line diagrams, and utility interconnection requirements on the most technically demanding projects and specify transformer requirements for the factory accordingly.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner with factory engineering, product engineering, and White Glove teams to resolve non-standard configuration and retrofit challenges on new construction projects.
• Continuous Learning & Thought Leadership: Maintain expert-level command of evolving product lines and industry standards, while codifying recurring technical and commercial patterns into guidance the broader sales engineering team can reuse.

Knowledge/Skills/Other Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related field preferred; extensive field experience in transformer application engineering, testing, and repair is highly valued in lieu of a degree.
• 15 years of experience in transformer sales engineering, application engineering, switchgear, or power systems engineering, with deep expertise in medium-voltage (up to 35 kV) power transformation and new construction/engineered project work.
• Demonstrated success leading technical and commercial strategy on complex, high-value bids — data centers, renewable energy plants, and industrial new-build projects.
• Strong working knowledge of the competitive landscape, pricing dynamics, and specification trends across the medium-voltage transformer market, with the ability to translate that knowledge into actionable guidance for the team.
• Proven ability to mentor, coach, and develop less experienced engineers — acting as a working leader rather than a people manager, with credibility that comes from hands-on technical depth.
• Advanced proficiency in reading and interpreting electrical drawings, single-line diagrams, specifications, utility interconnection agreements, and protection schemes.
• Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to walk a job site in steel-toed boots and present technical and commercial strategy to executive leadership and customers in a boardroom.
• Travel as required, primarily limited to customer job sites, high-value project support, and factory visits; travel may exceed that of the Sales Engineer 1 role given the strategic scope of supported projects.

Why Join Us: At CORE Transformers, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact from day one. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment where your ideas and initiatives are valued.

Location: This is an on-site position based in Seneca, SC (just outside Greenville & near Clemson University).

If you are passionate about satisfying customer expectations and are ready to take on a rewarding challenge, apply now to join our dynamic team at CORE Transformers!

CORE Transformers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.