Lead Division Sales Engineer

Eaton’s ES AMER ARS PDCAD division is currently seeking a Lead Division Sales Engineer. The position will be based at our facility in Fayetteville, NC. We are offering relocation assistance for candidates who live within the U.S.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Primary Function

The Lead Division Sales Engineer will support the MCC Product Line, Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing on Motor Control Center projects, initiatives, design, and manufacturing changes. Responsibility to include interpretation of project plans and specifications, product application, market feedback, configuration of product, technical support, engineering changes, and product expertise and training. Additionally, they will provide technical support to field/sales.

Essential Functions

• Provides secondary and escalated pre-and-and-post sales support for MCC products for quotations, installations, and warranty issues. Provide product application support for the Motor Control Center product lines as a 2nd-tier specialist.
• Supports sales engineers as needed by performing product specification reviews and preparing large and more difficult quotations.
• Conducts competitive product analysis and writes technical literature for internal and external use. Research and prepare competitive cross references and application notes for the product lines supported.
• Provides technical explanations, demonstration and training of products to customers, field engineering, and marketing support functions. Provide training seminars. This could include up to 20% travel.
• Assists in-house engineering and marketing personnel in developing concepts for new products or modification of existing devices and contribute to product launch requirements. Assist engineering and marketing with new product development, strategy, design, and project evolution.
• Perform a wide variety of marketing and technical tasks, including solving customer problems with the use of technical and marketing publications, development specifications, and divisional peers to innovate problem solutions.
• Guide the coordination of special complex design problems with design/standards engineering.
  
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Interpret and define commercial and technical data where customer and/or product planning specifications are of a general or speculative nature involving the solution of new and varied problems.
• Give training and informative presentations to customers, distributors, EESS, Eaton Power System Engineers, other Engineers. and sales force concerning Eaton’s electrical products and services,
• Be a technical resource for the MCC product lines.
• Create and present technical documentation.
• Strategize, propose, and create programs, products, and/or projects that will improve overall sales for the MCC product lines.
• Support or lead projects that will expand the MCC product lines
• Support product manager as a change agent for assigned business initiatives. Look for high impact opportunities for improvement. Includes gathering/analyzing data, making recommendations, gaining team buy-in, and influencing others.
• Assist manufacturing with engineering requests or needed training.
• You will interface with Eaton sales, independent sales representatives, distributors, Eaton operations and customers to promote sales growth, both commercially and through marketing and technical support.
• Must be able to manage time appropriately to meet the product line’s objectives and customers’ requirements.
• Ability to travel is necessary to effectively interface with customers and other required contacts and to manage or participate in company-related projects, activities, or other job-related assignments.
• Assist with engineering designs, providing direction to application engineers and designers, and collaborating with direct customers/field sales.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 3 years of electrical industry experience
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Product and technical knowledge of electrical motor control center equipment applications
  
  
  

Position Criteria

• Understanding of Power Distribution and Power Systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
  
  

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.

You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.

We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.