Sales Engineer

Description

About us:

Founded in Brooklyn in 1918 by Robert Lee Johannsen, Lee Spring has grown into a global manufacturer with locations across the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia - stocking more than 25,000 catalog products alongside custom-engineered solutions.

If you're looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you've found it. As a Sales Engineer at Lee Spring, you won't just sell a catalog part number - you'll act as a customer's technical partner, translating force, motion, and fatigue requirements into a spring or wire form solution that works in their application.

The Sales Engineer is a customer-facing, technically fluent role responsible for growing new business and expanding existing accounts by delivering value-based spring and formed wire solutions. You'll serve as the connective tissue between sales, engineering, and operations - making sure every solution that reaches a customer is manufacturable, cost-effective, and built to perform.

What You’ll Do:

Customer-Facing & Business Development

• Research and identify new account opportunities within assigned territories
• Build long-term relationships with customer engineering and purchasing teams
• Confer with customers to assess application needs - force, motion, fatigue resistance, and durability

Technical Estimation & Quoting

• Prepare technical estimates and formal quotations that balance performance, manufacturability, cost, and lead time
• Develop, present, and respond to proposals, including RFP responses for industry-specific solutions

Design & Program Support

• Support spring and formed wire design work in partnership with internal engineering
• Guide projects through prototyping, testing, PPAP, and customer qualification
• Support new program launches with analytics-driven problem solving and continuous improvement

Challenges You’ll Navigate

• Winning trust with engineers who need precision, not a sales pitch
• Moving fast on quotes while making sure what's quoted can be built
• Managing a full project lifecycle - from first conversation through production launch - without losing momentum

Qualifications

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field
• 2–4 years of experience spanning engineering and sales-facing work
• Working knowledge of engineering principles and their practical application to product design
• Strong communication skills - written, verbal, and presentation
• Comfort with quantitative work: quoting, cost analysis, and technical proposal development
• No prior spring industry experience required - Lee Spring provides training and team support to help you succeed