Job Description
Sales Engineer
As a Sales Engineer, you will play a critical role in managing project opportunities from initial pursuit through project award and handover. Key responsibilities include:
- Manage opportunities throughout the full sales and pre-construction lifecycle
- Lead proposal development and coordinate competitive bid submissions
- Drive collaboration between engineering, estimating, operations, and business development teams
- Develop technical and commercial responses for customers
- Support pricing strategies, negotiations, and contract discussions
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships
- Manage ongoing client communications throughout active pursuits
- Identify opportunities for repeat business and additional project work
- Partner with business development professionals to maximise project success
- Maintain ownership of pursuits through project award
- Coordinate proposal schedules, deadlines, and internal resources
- Deliver a high standard of customer service and commercial support
This Sales Engineer role serves as the bridge between customer-facing activities and project execution teams, ensuring a seamless experience throughout the opportunity lifecycle.
The ideal Sales Engineer will bring a combination of technical expertise, commercial awareness, and strong relationship management skills. Requirements include:
- Minimum 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering strongly preferred
- Experience working within utility, power, infrastructure, energy, engineering, or construction environments
- Background within utility companies, engineering firms, engineering procurement and construction organisations, contractors, or industrial businesses
- Previous experience managing projects, proposals, bids, or customer-facing technical engagements
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to build long-term client relationships
- Commercial mindset with interest in sales and business development activities
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail
- Self-motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
This Sales Engineer opportunity offers excellent long-term career progression and exposure to major infrastructure projects throughout the energy and utility sectors.
- Up to $160,000 base salary
- Performance bonus typically 10%
Benefits & Career Development
- Structured onboarding and training programme
- Clear progression from Sales Engineer to Senior Sales Engineer
- Opportunity to take ownership of major pursuits and client accounts
- Develop commercial leadership skills within a growing organisation
- Exposure to large-scale utility and renewable energy projects
- Strong internal mentoring and support structure
- Collaborative and results-focused culture
- Opportunity to influence business growth and strategic customer relationships
Travel
- Generally low travel requirements
- Limited travel during onboarding and ramp-up period
Location
- Houston, Texas
- Full-time onsite position
- Five days per week in the office
- Relocation assistance available for qualified candidates
- Interview-related travel expenses covered by the employer
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Houston, Texas |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $120,000–$150,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Website | https://www.michaelpage.ca/ |
About Company
Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.
Our business was established in Canada in 2005 when we opened our Toronto office. Our role is to work with employers and job seekers to facilitate a successful match. This can range from advising a global company on a candidate sourcing strategy to helping a job seeker find their dream job.
In Canada, we focus on recruiting for the following areas:
Banking and financial services
Digital and e-commerce
Engineering and manufacturing
Finance and accounting
Human resources
Information technology
Marketing
Oil and gas
Procurement and supply chain
Property and construction
Sales
An Established Brand
The Group has established a leading presence in many of the key markets for professional recruitment around the world and has positioned itself in certain other markets, which offer the opportunity for future growth. Within its current largest markets, Michael Page has also built a regional presence, including in the UK, France and Australia. Consequently, the Michael Page brand is among the most widely recognized brands in the professional recruitment industry.
A Market Leader
The role of a recruitment consultancy is to act as an intermediary, identifying and sourcing suitably qualified candidates on behalf of its clients. Candidates are recruited either for permanent or contract positions (typically for a fixed term) or on a temporary basis. Within the overall recruitment industry, the market for professional recruitment services is a specialist sector which has developed more recently. Michael Page is widely recognized as leading the development of this market around the world.
Learn the benefits of working with Michael Page yourself. Submit your resume or contact a Michael Page recruitment consultant today.
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