Applications Engineer
Applications Engineer - Meter Control
The Opportunity:
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) seeks a Meter and Control Sales Engineer to support, train, and specify advanced power system monitoring, control, and automation equipment.
Are you ready to help customers apply state-of-the-art monitoring, control, and automation equipment for distribution power systems? Would you like to work for a company that has a reputation for unmatched customer support and truly values the contributions of smart, dedicated engineers like yourself? Do you like to travel worldwide to support customers in over 100 countries? Our products protect, monitor, and control transmission lines, transformers, bus bars, capacitor banks, distribution feeders, generators, and motors worldwide.
This position includes a choice of several SEL offices across the United States. Enjoy the area that you love while working for a world-wide provider of high-quality electrical power system equipment. If you are an engineer with demonstrated experience in application, support, and sales of electrical distribution systems, we invite you to consider joining our team.
Applications Engineer Meter Control
Responsibilities:
- Assist customers, sales representatives, and application engineers in applying SEL products through visits, demonstrations, training courses and telecommunications contact.
- Define customer needs and lead efforts to prepare innovative and cost-effective methods to meet them using distribution products and services.
- Prepare technical proposals and commercial bids.
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of distribution monitoring, automation, and control applications, competition, and markets. Analyze competitor products and prepare technical product comparison reports.
- Participate in industry technical meetings, standards committees and conferences to represent SEL interests and identify key technical requirements for product planning.
- Write application literature, instruction manuals, and data sheets.
- Create product marketing information including datasheets, flyers, advertisements, sales kits, and product presentations.
- Manage customer database for customer sales and application information.
- Contribute to product specifications, application guides, technical papers, testing, software, and literature.
Qualifications:
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering
- Minimum two years work experience with electrical distribution power systems and automation.
- Good knowledge of system integration and automation applications, including applicable communication protocols and communication technologies.
- Experience in technical marketing and/or sales
- Excellent technical presentation, speaking and writing skills
- Willing to travel 25%
- Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
- Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
- Background check results satisfactory to SEL
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience using SEL products
SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.