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