Technical Sales Engineer - Cable Harness Assemblies

Are you an experienced Technical Sales Engineer with a focus on Cable Assemblies searching for your next career move?

Join TBG Solutions and be part of a company that’s shaping the future through smart thinking and bold execution. This is an opportunity for someone who thrives on challenges, values continuous growth, and wants their work to make a meaningful difference.

We’re TBG Solutions and we operate on a national basis providing test, measurement and control services. We work with customers to understand their requirements and, on identifying the principal challenges, engineer robust solutions that combine hardware and software. Our roots were established over 25 years ago; this means that we have decades of experience in our respective fields.

Join our prestigious business where excellence truly meets opportunity. At TBG, we pride ourselves on delivering unparalleled services with a focus on integrity, innovation, and client satisfaction. With a team of seasoned professionals and a commitment to fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture, we strive to empower our employees to reach their full potential.

Across the business we foster a culture of inclusivity and champion personal development so that each employee has opportunities to shine and flourish, and we want you to be a part of it.

As our newly appointed Technical Sales Engineer you will be tasked with creating the quotation, performing technical reviews, and sale of bespoke cable harnesses and associated electromechanical assemblies.

This role is suited to someone with a strong technical understanding of cable harness design, manufacture, components, and customer specifications, combined with the commercial ability to produce accurate quotations, follow up opportunities, and convert enquiries into orders.

The successful candidate will act as a key link between customers, engineering, purchasing, production, and quality teams to ensure customer requirements are properly understood, costed, quoted, and delivered.

• Review customer enquiries, drawings, wiring schedules, specifications, samples, and bills of materials.
• Prepare accurate and commercially competitive quotations for bespoke cable harness assemblies.
• Identify all materials, components, labour, tooling, testing, and subcontract requirements needed for each quote.
• Liaise with suppliers to obtain pricing and availability for connectors, terminals, cable, sleeving, heatshrink, labels, backshells, conduit, and other components.
• Calculate manufacturing times, production costs, margins, and lead times.
• Maintain accurate records of quotations, pricing assumptions, customer correspondence, and project status.

• Interpret customer technical drawings, wiring diagrams, pin-out schedules, connector specifications, and assembly instructions.
• Clarify technical requirements with customers where information is incomplete or ambiguous.
• Advise customers on manufacturability, component selection, cost reduction opportunities, and alternative solutions.
• Support customers through the enquiry, quotation, prototype, approval, and production stages.
• Attend customer meetings, site visits, or technical reviews where required.
• Build strong relationships with engineering, procurement, and commercial contacts within customer organisations.

• Work closely with production, engineering, purchasing, and quality teams to ensure quoted solutions are practical, achievable, and compliant.
• Support handover of new orders into production, ensuring all technical and commercial details are clearly communicated.
• Assist with the creation or review of build packs, work instructions, BOMs, routings, and test requirements where required.
• Raise technical queries internally and externally to resolve issues before manufacture.
• Support continuous improvement in quotation accuracy, costing methods, and sales processes.

• Experience in a technical sales, estimating, applications engineering, production engineering, or customer-facing engineering role.
• Good understanding of bespoke cable harnesses, wiring looms, cable assemblies, or electromechanical assemblies.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, BOMs, and customer specifications.
• Knowledge of cable harness components such as connectors, terminals, wire, cable, sleeving, conduit, heatshrink, labels, glands, and protective coverings.
• Ability to prepare accurate quotations from technical information.
• Strong commercial awareness, including costings, margins, lead times, and customer pricing.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Confident dealing directly with customers and suppliers.
• Good attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple enquiries at different stages.
• Competent with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Full Driving License.

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