Technical Sales Engineer

Technical Sales Engineer
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two driven engineers who wants to work closely with our customers as Technical Sales Engineer in the Naval or Commercial segment. You will belong to the Sales Support team in the Propeller & Shaft Line Systems organization. Part of the work and day-to-day management takes place in collaboration with the Propeller sales organization. This position is a unique opportunity where you can influence our customers in finding optimal solutions, creating better system and select the best product for different vessels. You will develop a deep understanding how our propulsion system integrates and works in different vessels and applications.
As Technical Sales Engineer, you will be part of the team responsible for developing optimal propulsion solutions on behalf of both internal and external customers. The assignments range from advanced concept studies to rapid analyses. The Technical Sales Engineer’s work takes place in close collaboration with the sales organization, Kongsberg Hydrodynamics Research Center, our technical departments, purchasing and other stakeholders.
Your work results in technical specifications and drawings that will form the technical part of the contracts with our customers and support the costing of our product. As a Technical Sales Engineer, you are the customer's contact person at Kongsberg for technical issues during the sales phase, therefore building relationship with our customers is a natural and important part of the job. Business trips to our customers are part of the work.
Qualifications and experience
You have a post-secondary education in mechanics, hydrodynamics or similar. We prefer that you have a good understanding of the propulsion system and our business, and preferably experience in some of the areas mechanical, shaft analysis, hydrodynamics or hydraulics.
In this position collaboration is key to succeed. You are driven by supporting customers and find it exciting to have discussions and argue for different technical solutions with our customers to reach an agreement. We value your personal characteristics highly and your ability to co-operate and network, communicate clearly, share knowledge, and support your colleagues in the pursuit of team goals. The ability to work in a flexible way and ability to work with both larger investigations and more limited analyses are preferred.
Sounds interesting? Apply today, latest 2023-05-28
For this position we work with personality and ability tests, which may be sent to you if you proceed in the process. Interviews can start during the application period as we wish to fill this position as soon as possible.
Since we are a company working with customers in the Naval segment, questions related to citizenship will be part of the selection process.
Kongsberg Maritime, a subsidiary of KONGSBERG, is a global marine technology company, providing innovative and reliable technology solutions for all marine industry sectors including: merchant, offshore, subsea and naval. Headquartered in Kongsberg, Norway, the company has manufacturing, sales and service facilities in 34 countries. Kongsberg Maritime is part of KONGSBERG, an international, knowledge-based group delivering high-technology systems and solutions to clients within the oil and gas industry, merchant marine, defence and aerospace.
Kongsberg Maritime in Kristinehamn consists of 280 engaged people and upholds product management for various types of propulsion for all types of marine vessels, sales and marketing and product assembly. Our Hydrodynamic Research Centre provides world leading CFD and Testing capabilities in support for our Product centres and customers.
Our Propulsion and Engines business covers the strategic, operational and engineering activities for propulsion and engine products. Today our product range is one of the broadest in the world and our accountability as a team include all aspects of the product range including market requirements, product strategies; development, product costs and profitability throughout the life cycle.
At Kongsberg, we believe in tackling challenging problems and delivering extreme performance for extreme conditions. We do that through excellent products and services developed for delivering the greatest benefits to our customers.
WORLD CLASS – through people, technology and dedication