Sales Application Engineer

Job Summary

This position requires general knowledge of all Crosby products and their applications, with a focus on blocks and sheaves. The position will be responsible for communicating with customers, understanding their applications and requirements, estimating costs, preparing quotations, maintaining quote follow up activity and working with design engineering to develop complete designs and drawings.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (*Essential)

1. Analyze and interpret customer inquiries, including specifications to select and/or design appropriate equipment for the application.
2. Work with procurement and directly with vendors to develop cost estimates.
3. Set product pricing in collaboration with management and pricing analysts.
4. Determine drawings needed for quotation and coordinates their completion with design engineering.
5. Write, edit, issue and follow up on formal quotations to customer.
6. Assist with creation and modification of sales documents to update skills and tools needed to continue improving performance and knowledge.

Special Location/Position Requirements: 

Job Specifications (Work Experience, Skills, Abilities, etc.) 

Required:

• Customer oriented – ability to communicated orally and in written form with internal and external customers and suppliers.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills; understanding engineering and financial principles.

Preferred:

• 2 years in the Rigging and Lifting Industry.

Education Requirements:

B.S. in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical or related field)

Physical Demands/Environmental Conditions:

Normal office conditions.  Job demands may require long periods of sitting, telephone work and/or computer work, as well as interaction with other people.  Normal office conditions include walking, standing, bending, kneeling, climbing stairs, lifting, driving and/or traveling.

May occasionally visit shop.  Shop conditions are variable depending on task assignment.  Is subject to shop noise, skin and eye are subject to fumes, vapors, and solutions controlled to OSHA standards.