Sales Engineer

We are looking for a Sales engineer with an interest mechanical and process equipment. The successful applicant will form part of a small diverse team responsible for designing, building, testing and improving thermal waste treatment equipment.

We seek to fill this position by March 2025.

Company story

Macrotec is a South African based company specialising in Thermal Engineering, with products such as Incinerators, Hot Gas Filtration and Gold Recovery Systems.

Our focus is on innovating and designing solutions for industries such as waste management, product recovery, mining, and crematoria; to reduce emissions, improve operating efficiencies, and increase reliability.

Major duties and responsibilities

• Preparing and developing technical presentations to explain our company's products or services to customers.
• Discussing equipment needs and system requirements with customers and engineers.
• Collaborating with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support.
• Generating high-quality sales leads, following up after initial contact, securing and renewing orders, negotiating prices, completing sales, and arranging deliveries.
• Researching, developing, and modifying products to meet customers' technical requirements and needs.
• Helping customers who have problems with installed products and recommending improved or upgraded materials and machinery.
• Soliciting and logging client feedback and evaluating the data to create new sales and marketing strategies to target customers.
• Identifying areas for improvement and communicating these issues as well as possible solutions to upper management.
• Setting and achieving sales goals and quotas.
• Training other members of the sales team on the technical aspects of the company's products and services.

Essential requirements

• A bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, customer service, and sales skills.
• The ability to relate technical information to nontechnical customers.
• Excellent technical and problem-solving skills.
• Good leadership and teamwork skills.
• Willingness to continue your sales and engineering education.