Hunter Hughes Recruitment Services
Senior Technical Sales Engineer
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Technical Sales Engineer – Clamping & Tooling Systems
Excellent opportunity for a technically minded sales professional to join a specialist engineering business, selling high-quality clamping and tooling systems into some of the most advanced manufacturing environments in the UK.
Are you a Technical Sales Engineer who enjoys understanding a customer's manufacturing challenges and developing the right technical solution? Perhaps you are already working in precision engineering, work-holding, tooling, machine tools or industrial automation, and are looking for a role where you can take greater ownership of your territory, customers, and earning potential.
This could be the opportunity for you.
The Role
You will be responsible for developing relationships with manufacturers across sectors including:
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Formula 1 / Motorsport
- Medical & precision engineering
- Machine tools
- Advanced manufacturing
This is a genuinely consultative sales role. Rather than simply selling a catalogue of products, you will work closely with Production Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Design Engineers, and other technical stakeholders to understand their requirements, identify problems, and provide the most appropriate clamping and tooling solution.
You will have the autonomy to manage your territory and customer base, developing existing relationships while identifying and winning new business.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Develop and manage relationships with manufacturing and engineering customers
- Work directly with Production, Manufacturing, and Design Engineers
- Understand customer applications, processes, and technical requirements
- Identify opportunities where improved clamping, workholding, or tooling can add value
- Provide technically led, solution-based recommendations
- Conduct site visits, technical discussions, and product demonstrations
- Generate new business while developing existing accounts
- Manage projects from initial enquiry through to specification and sale
- Work with internal technical teams to develop the right solution
- Build long-term relationships rather than transactional sales
- Keep up to date with developments in manufacturing technology and customer applications
The Person
We are looking for someone who can operate comfortably at the intersection of engineering and sales.
You will ideally have experience selling technical products or solutions into manufacturing environments and be confident having conversations with engineers about applications, processes, and technical challenges.
You could come from a background in:
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- Work-holding
- Clamping
- Tooling
- Machine Tools
- Cutting Tools
- CNC
- Precision Engineering
- Automation
- Metrology
- Industrial Engineering
Most importantly, you will be:
- Technically credible and able to engage with engineers
- A confident and consultative communicator
- Commercially driven with a genuine appetite for winning business
- Comfortable working independently and managing your own territory
- Good at asking questions and understanding the customer's problem before proposing a solution
- Able to develop relationships at multiple levels within an organisation
- Proactive, organised, and self-motivated
- Someone who enjoys getting out in front of customers rather than relying on inbound enquiries
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to work with highly technical products in some of the UK's most sophisticated manufacturing sectors, while having the freedom to develop your own customer base and territory.
If you are currently in a technical sales role but feel you could achieve more — either commercially or professionally — this role offers the opportunity to take your career to the next level.
If you have the technical understanding, the consultative sales approach, and the ambition to succeed, we'd love to hear from you.
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