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Kelly Services

Sales Engineer / Engineering Sales Support

Sales Engineer / Engineering Sales Support

**Salary Range:** $108,000 – $120,000, based on experience

**Location:** Office/Warehouse Environment

**Division:** Corporate, Strategic Sales Team

For immediate consideration, please send resume to Jen at [email protected]

Questions? Please call (630) 506-8765

Position Overview

As a Sales Engineer, you will provide direct engineering support to commercial staff, focusing on technical requirements for quoted and supplied products, mainly threaded fasteners. You will act as the technical liaison between customers and suppliers in all matters related to product design, application, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

+ **Technical Liaison:** Serve as the engineering liaison between customers and subcontractors for product design, application, and function.

+ **Application Studies & Reports:** Conduct fastener application studies and produce technical reports using various tools and customer materials.

+ **Sales Support:** Attend sales calls to provide technical expertise; present the company's business model, technical capabilities, and product solutions.

+ **Supplier Collaboration:** Visit key suppliers to develop comprehensive knowledge of their production and processing capabilities.

+ **Cost Reduction Initiatives:** Identify and propose VA/VE (Value Analysis/Value Engineering) opportunities, including line walks within customer operations.

+ **Customer Relationship Development:** Build strong connections with customer engineering teams for early project involvement.

+ **New Product Support:** Assist in new product development and launches, ensuring technical support is provided throughout.

+ **Technical Training:** Lead training sessions for commercial staff on product and engineering topics.

+ **General Technical Support:** Provide wide-ranging technical assistance, adapting to undefined customer needs as needed.

+ **CAD & Blueprint Interpretation:** Interpret customer engineering requirements from 2D/3D drawings, manage 3D CAD software, and support related commercial staff needs.

+ **Additional Duties:** Perform other tasks as assigned by leadership.

Qualifications

+ Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

+ Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously

+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills

+ Formal engineering degree with a solid technical background (preferably with fasteners)

+ Proficiency in blueprint reading including GD&T; adept at using common fastener inspection tools (caliper, micrometer, thread gages, etc.)

+ Skilled in PC operations and engineering software (2D/3D construction techniques)

+ Willingness and ability to travel as business needs require

Job Specifications

+ **Work Hours:** Monday–Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm, 60-minute lunch; flexibility as business dictates

+ **Environment:** Office/Warehouse, with some exposure to solvents, oils, grease, and variable temperatures

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here (https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits) for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

Why Kelly ® ?

As a worker today, it’s up to you to take charge of your career and look for opportunities to learn, grow, and achieve your potential. Helping you find what’s next is what we’re all about. We know what’s going on in the evolving world of work—just ask the 440,000 people we employ each year. Connecting with us means getting the support, guidance, and opportunities needed to take your career where you may have never imagined.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment.