Technical Sales & Applications Engineer in Carlisle

About the role

Due to the forthcoming retirement of a long-serving member of our team, Park Gate & Company Ltd is looking for an experienced Technical Sales & Applications Engineer to support and develop our customer base across the UK and Ireland.

This is a predominantly field-based, customer-facing role promoting Park Gate’s extensive range of industrial products and engineering services, including:

• Electric motors and variable-speed drives
• Motor repairs and rewinds
• Control-panel manufacture
• Industrial automation and control systems
• Industrial electrical installations and wider project work

Although our head office is based in Carlisle, we are happy to consider candidates located elsewhere across the North of England, provided they are well positioned to manage the territory effectively.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical understanding with commercial ability, developing established customer relationships while actively identifying new enquiries and converting opportunities into confirmed orders.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with existing industrial customers.
• Identify and generate new business opportunities across the assigned territory.
• Promote electric motors, variable-speed drives and associated industrial products.
• Develop opportunities for motor rewinds, repairs and related engineering services.
• Identify project opportunities for control-panel manufacture, automation and industrial electrical installations.
• Visit customer sites to understand technical, operational and commercial requirements.
• Recommend appropriate products, services and engineering solutions.
• Work closely with Park Gate’s internal sales and engineering teams to develop quotations and technical proposals.
• Follow up quotations and maintain momentum throughout the sales process.li>
• Progress opportunities from initial enquiry through to confirmed order.
• Build a detailed understanding of customer sites, applications and future requirements.
• Maintain regular contact with key accounts and prospective customers.
• Represent Park Gate professionally at meetings, site visits and relevant industry events.
• Provide useful market, competitor and customer feedback to the wider business.

About you

We are looking for someone who combines sound technical knowledge with the confidence to build customer relationships and develop commercial opportunities.

You may be a good fit for the role if you:

• Have previous technical sales or business-development experience within an industrial or engineering environment.
• Have good technical knowledge of electric motors and their industrial applications.
• Understand variable-speed drives and associated motor-control applications.
• Have knowledge of automation, control panels or industrial electrical control systems.
• Are comfortable visiting industrial customers and discussing technical requirements.
• Can identify and develop both product-sales and engineering-project opportunities.
• Have experience generating and pursuing new sales enquiries.
• Are confident following up quotations and converting opportunities into orders.
• Have strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
• Are organised and capable of managing your own territory and workload.
• Are comfortable working independently in a predominantly field-based role.
• Have a proactive, commercially focused and customer-led approach.

Experience within industrial electrical engineering, electric-motor sales, motor repairs, drives, automation, control systems or a closely associated engineering sector would be particularly valuable.

What success looks like

Park Gate & Company Ltd has been part of Cumbria’s engineering landscape for 80 years.

Employing more than 90 people from extensive premises in Carlisle, we have built our reputation on technical expertise, reliability and long-standing relationships with industrial customers.

This is an opportunity to represent an established engineering business with a broad product and service offering, while working closely with experienced sales, motor, electrical and automation teams.

Why join Park Gate?

Park Gate & Company Ltd has been part of Cumbria’s engineering landscape for 80 years.

Employing more than 90 people from extensive premises in Carlisle, we have built our reputation on technical expertise, reliability and long-standing relationships with industrial customers.

This is an opportunity to represent an established engineering business with a broad product and service offering, while working closely with experienced sales, motor, electrical and automation teams.