THE ROLE

Our client is seeking a Sales Engineer to help develop competitive solutions for complex pre-engineered metal building projects. The role combines structural engineering, estimating, value engineering, and customer collaboration to influence design strategy and project economics. This is a technical, consultative position rather than a traditional quota-carrying sales role.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Evaluate complex building opportunities using structural design software and advanced estimating tools.
• Develop structural solutions that balance customer requirements, product capabilities, cost, constructability, and business risk.
• Identify value-engineering opportunities to improve structural efficiency and overall project economics.
• Partner with sales representatives, builders, and customers to address technical questions and establish project strategies early in the process.
• Oversee estimates and provide technical guidance to quote engineers and estimators.
• Collaborate with design, estimating, and sales leadership to improve processes and develop competitive project solutions.
• Mentor technical team members and support the continued development of engineering and estimating practices.
• Provide remote and in-person technical support, with approximately 25% travel, including occasional short-notice trips.
• Initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards.

Why Consider This Role

• Move beyond the design desk: Apply your engineering expertise on the front end of opportunities, directly influencing design strategy, customer solutions, project economics, and the company’s ability to win work.
• Career growth: Gain experience that can support advancement into supervisory or management positions across sales, design, detailing, estimating, and other functions.
• Broad professional development: Build a deeper understanding of the business through exposure to engineering, product capabilities, estimating, customer relationships, and commercial decision-making.
• Stability: Join an established organization with exceptional employee retention and a division where employees build careers spanning decades.
• Strong division performance: Work with a successful operation experiencing substantial business volume and increasingly large, technically challenging projects.
• Ownership and impact: Join a collaborative culture that values initiative, trust, innovation, and individual responsibility, giving strong performers opportunities to make meaningful contributions.

What We’re Looking For

Required:

• At least 4 years of experience in the pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) industry.
• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or Architectural Engineering from an ABET-accredited institution.
• Authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration in the United States.
• Specific estimating and/or engineering experience in the PEMB industry.

WORK ARRANGEMENT

• Hybrid-remote position requiring periodic attendance at an Indiana-based facility.
• On-site attendance is required at least once per month during the first few months, potentially decreasing to approximately once per quarter depending on business needs.
• Approximately 25% travel, including occasional short-notice trips.

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