What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales/Application Engineer - Mechanical Equipment - Wastewater position at Headworks, Inc.?
Position Summary
Are you interested in being a part of a team working to solve the world's critical shortages of water? Are you passionate about the quality of your work and looking to be recognized and moved forward? Consider applying with Headworks Screenings Division. Responsibilities for this position include supporting the sales managers, sales representatives and potential clients by providing equipment and design recommendations, technical data and budgetary costs, and other supporting information. Career paths include moving to sales, project management or engineering design departments.
Essential Functions
- Provide timely response to requests for sales materials, technical information and miscellaneous support from company sales reps and customers
- Prepare bid documents for final submittal
- Prepare proposals and RFQ submittals
- Review technical specifications and drawings as needed
- Make sales calls and conduct Technical Sales Presentations to both engineers and end users.
- Assist clients and representatives with equipment selection and layout
- Send information packages and literature to customers and representatives
- Follow up on sales leads, web inquiries, and other related inquiries
- Update sales database, run reports and update missing data
- Track pre-bid checklist (project specs, competitor data, bid form)
- Up to 10% travel in North America
- Attitude: Ability to work in a high energy environment with limited direction and supervision
Qualifications
- Perform work accurately and thoroughly on a consistent basis
- Experience with rotating mechanical equipment
- Communicate effectively with others, both orally and in writing
- Ability to complete many different tasks within given deadlines
- Knowledge of AutoCAD or similar drafting program is a plus
- Ability to communicate professionally with customers, representatives and engineers
- Ability to review detailed project specifications and drawings
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering discipline from an accredited university
- 3 years related experience preferred
What do our jobs offer?
Headworks International Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our jobs provide opportunities to be part of a team that works directly in providing award-winning, innovative technologies to clean the world's most precious resource – water. The Company has a 4 and 1/2 day workweek and offers competitive salary structures and profitability-based bonuses. A major advantage to working at Headworks is the exposure to diverse international business experiences with ever increasing responsibilities. We offer competitive reward structures; exposure to Best-in-Class technologies; ongoing career development; one of the most diverse business environments in the United States as acknowledged by DiversityBusiness.Com; and the ability to be part of one of Houston's Top Ten Places to Work as awarded by the Houston Business Journal.
