Join Our Dynamic Team as a Sales Engineer at GEA!
We are GEA, one of the world's largest system suppliers for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical sectors, with market-leading solutions in growing industries. Our technology and solutions enhance the quality of life. Everywhere you look, GEA is present: on breakfast tables, supermarket shelves, and in hospitals. We are proud to see that we have a positive impact on people’s everyday lives.
This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic personality who is focused on customer relations and sales. The Sales Engineer focuses on sales within the Industrial Biotech and Fats & Oils Processing Industries. This role serves customers by identifying their needs and engineering adaptations of products, equipment, and services. You will be responsible for selling GEA’s centrifuge product portfolio into the Biotech and Fats & Oils Processing Industries in the Midwest. Technologies include both Decanter and Disc Stack centrifuge equipment in the solid/liquid separation processes.
Responsibilities / Tasks
- Establishes new accounts and maintains existing accounts by reviewing market analyses and determining customer needs and potential sales to achieve order intake.
- Communicates weekly with the Director of RR Sales on needs, sales activities and market climate, etc.
- Prepares and presents technical and sales presentations at industry seminars and to customers.
- Assists with preparing cost estimates and quotations by reviewing project plans, and related customer documents, consulting with engineers, designers, and other professional and technical personnel.
- Determines improvements by analyzing cost-benefit ratios of equipment for applications in customer processes.
- Overnight travel within North America (mostly Midwest), as well as occasional trips to our headquarters in Germany
- Assists with writing proposals, preparing and negotiating final contract including pricing terms and conditions.
- Ensures clear communication and hand-off to project management team.
- Participates in tradeshows and other marketing activities to increase sales volume.
Your Profile / Qualifications
- Undergraduate Chemical Engineering degree
- Will consider fresh graduates
- Demonstrated ability to understand and effectively communicate technical data and engineering systems.
- Must be able to communicate effectively in English, both written and verbal
- Must possess good interpersonal skills and work well in a team setting as well as independently.
- Applicant overnight travel approximately 2-3 nights per week
GEA offers competitive pay and great benefits.
- 11 Paid Holidays
- PTO - Paid Time Off
- Medical Plans
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Health Savings and Spending Accounts
- Tuition Reimbursement
- 401k with excellent employer match
- Wellness Incentive Program
- Employee Assistance Program
GEA is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will therefore receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, world view, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities are welcome and will be given special consideration if they are equally qualified.
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