Energy Storage Sales Support Engineer

Career Area:
Sales

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

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Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more.

With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable
world for future generations!

The BESS Sales Engineer position is a Technical Sales Support team member responsible for supporting the BESS portions of the Caterpillar Energy Solutions. This role translates customer needs into winning solution strategies and connects technical capabilities to clear business value. The ideal candidate is a top-tier technical professional with strong commercial instincts, a proven ability to navigate complex sales, and demonstrated experience in BESS systems, power infrastructure, and/or data center electrical architecture.

• Support technical sales activities for the Power & Energy division, qualifying and advancing strategic opportunities with hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, EPCs, utilities, and other key customers.

• Partner with Sales, Product, Strategy, and Engineering teams to develop solution strategies, strengthen value propositions, and support complex commercial opportunities.

• Assess customer business drivers, power requirements, technical constraints, and commercial priorities, incorporating BESS solutions into broader data center infrastructure strategies and providing feedback to Product Definition teams.

• Develop technical solutions for Energy Storage Systems (ESS) and Data Center (DC) Block applications, create customer proposals, and support business development and solution sales efforts.

Customer Focus:
Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.

• Communicates the importance of customer needs/expectations and commits to resolving them.

• Researches and verifies customer needs and expectations.

• Solicits customer satisfaction feedback and acts on improvement opportunities.

• Helps link organizational objectives to customer needs and expectations.

• Meets regularly with customers to understand their wants, needs and expectations.

• Obtains information about product and service linkages with other products and services elsewhere in organization.

• Researches the target market and how the product and services are sold and delivered.

• Explains current status, delivery alternatives and announced updates to products and services.

• Summarizes key features of major products or services in own unit.

• Assesses own unit's product alternatives, costs, and pricing.

• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a…