What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Engineer Intern position at Vanderlande?
Job Title
Sales Engineer Intern
Job Description
Qualifications
Sales Engineer Intern
Job Description
Qualifications
- Preferred bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction, or related field and work experience.
- 0-2 years of related experience.
- Limited decision making, heavily dependent on more senior members to draft decisions.
- Works on projects/matters of limited complexity in a support role.
- Work is closely managed with consistent direction and supervision.
- No “customer facing” or interaction is expected.
- Some general knowledge and understanding of Conceptualization.
- Some degree of Emotional Intelligence is expected with the willingness to be resilient and grow.
- Reports to a Unit Lead or Supervisor.
- Be “Customer-Centric” while adhering to company policies, processes, and culture.
- Increase your value within the company while providing value back to customers during their lifetime with the company.
- Collaborate along Business Development Managers, department colleagues and internal stakeholders in generating new business and ensure growth of existing accounts.
- Read, understand, and interpret RFP documents (written requests, specifications, requirements, and layouts)
- Translate needs contained within RFP’s into solutions while evaluating technical conformances, non-conformances, functionality, business needs, cost, and risks.
- Collaborate in the conceptualization and design phase together with Sales Layout Engineers/Consultants, while ensuring adherence to established specifications and standards.
- Evaluate risks and develop mitigation plans.
- Estimate material and labor costs for projects/services in response to RFP’s.
- Calculate costs based on analysis of project specifications, schedules, historical data, and other inputs as needed from internal stakeholders.
- Circulate and assist with presenting material deemed for approval by company management at different levels according to company guidelines.
- Research, develop, design and present (directly/indirectly) reports showing potential customers the cost benefit of purchasing company products/services.
- Provide (directly/indirectly) technical training to clients and communicate customer feedback for future product/service developments.
- Assist with project post-execution cost analysis to impact/calibrate future estimates.
- Use technical knowledge of product/service offerings to support and build sales.
- Understand the basics and deliverables of the sales layout engineering role
