Are you looking for the opportunity to take your first role in sales, utilising your engineering experience and expertise to assist a busy sales function?

Ford & Stanley – The Rail Recruitment Experts are recruiting a Technical Sales Engineer for a entrepreneurial rail business.

The Opportunity

Ford & Stanley Recruitment are partnered with a supplier that boasts a product range of over 40,000 parts on their search for a Technical Sales Engineer.

This is a critical hire for the business, providing engineering expertise to an existing sales function to remedy bottlenecks in bids processes and the overall supply chain, turning requirements and queries into actionable orders that will enable the business to continue to grow.

This role represents an opportunity for a technically minded engineer to diversify their skillset and take a step into a new career path.

Location:

Derby

Role and Responsibilities:

• Support the existing sales function by being the subject matter expert in Rail/Rolling Stock Engineering
• Interact with customers and internal departments to ensure the success of the sales team and delivery of projects.
• Managing projects, sometimes all the way through to completion.

The Candidate

With excellent knowledge of UK Rolling Stock, the successful candidate will have a background in rail engineering, along with the ability to interpret engineering drawings to create a BOM.

The right individual for this job will also be results driven, have a strong focus on customer service and solid literacy and numeracy skills.

Essentials Criteria

• Excellent knowledge of UK Rolling Stock
• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings to create a BOM
• Solid numerical and literacy skills.

Closing Date:  10 May 2024

About Ford & Stanley Group

Ford & Stanley Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness.

Ford & Stanley Group Ltd is a Disability Confident Committed employer and is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.