Overview
Sales Engineer Geotechnical and Civil Engineering
Job Title: Sales Engineer Geotechnical & Civil Engineering
Industry Sector: Civil Engineer Contractors and Main Civil Contractors, Highways, Geotextile, Geosynthetics, Consulting Engineers, Local Authorities and Highways Maintenance Contractors
Area to be covered: Midlands
Remuneration: £40,000-£45,000 Neg. + 10% bonus
Benefits: £550 Car Allowance + full benefits package
Responsibilities
- Field based technical role, responsible for providing technical support, technical advice, project management, and quotations to clients who are looking to utilize a wide range of geotechnical products
- Business development both technically and commercially, with a remit to promote our clients solutions and design and installation services
- Promoting predominantly retaining walls & structures and soil reinforced slopes & walls (but also erosion protection, rock-fall hazard mitigation, pavement & ground stabilization, geosynthetics etc.)
- Circa 50% of your time winning specifications with consulting engineers
- 50% managing, building relationships and breaking specifications (using technical expertise) with civil engineering contractors
- Projects can vary from housing schemes to infrastructure
- Managing an area currently turning over approx. £800,000-£1.2m currently performing slightly below budget expectation (predominantly down to current economic climate)
- 50% new business prospecting, 50% account management, you will inherit a healthy project bank
- Typical projects range in size from £10,000-£50,000, although can be much larger
- Three days a week on the road winning specifications and influencing specifiers, two days a week working from home on technical proposals and designs
- Working in conjunction with established distribution partners and internal sales team resource
- Plan, develop and execute technical seminars and presentations on all geosynthetic materials
Qualifications and ideal candidate
- Open to non-sales background with geotechnical contractors or civil engineering contractors or consulting engineers looking for a more commercially led role
- Ideally no graduates; must have at least 2 years experience in the industry
- Proven track record of winning geotechnical or civil engineering specification projects is not essential
- Previous experience of influencing and managing relationships with consulting engineers and civil engineering contractors is preferential
- Ideally with a technical/ commercial mix
- Construction site experience
- Self-starter, motivated to work from home
- Civil engineering, geology or geotechnical qualification preferred (HNC and above)
- Technically astute; understands value engineering
- Contacts within consulting engineers and civil engineering contractors may be advantageous
- Knowledge of geotechnical products is not required as full product training will be given
- An understanding of civil engineering proposals and designs
- Practical experience in designing with geosynthetics
Company
Very well established business
Circa £20m UK turnover
Part of a larger group
Privately held
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