Sales Application Engineer; Illinois​/Eastern Wisconsin

Responsibilities

• You develop and implement sales plans to achieve annual sales budget goal for your assigned territory.
• Business Development:
  Identify and capture new growth opportunities within the aerospace, automotive, and medical sectors.
• Channel Partner Development:
  Promote, train and manage the MAPAL product offering to local authorized distributor network partners.
• Problem Solving:
  Troubleshoot complex machining challenges involving milling, turning, and hole-making & hole-finishing.
• Technical Consulting:
  Conduct on-site tool testing and performance analysis to reduce cycle times and improve part quality.
• Value Selling:
  Demonstrate total cost of ownership (TCO) savings to procurement and engineering teams at end-user customers.

• Your education will include a mix of hands-on metal cutting manufacturing experience, military, and/or formal education equivalent to a Two to Four Year degree program in a technical discipline.
• Proficiency in CNC programming (G-code), tool geometry, and metallurgy.
• You will ideally have a minimum of five years of cutting tooling experience.
• You have a strong work ethic, self-motivated and must be able to work independently.
• You have excellent organization and time management skills.
• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written).
• You have a strong ability as a presenter of product with the skills of persuasion and value selling.
• You are consultative, customer focused, and solutions oriented.
• You creatively solve problems.
• You must be able to travel up to 50% to meet with distributor partners and end-users within the sales region.

• You will be compensated well through a market competitive salary and commission plan.
• You will be eligible for full benefits on your first day with us! (medical, vision, dental, std, ltd, 401k)
• Based on your performance, you will have many opportunities for career development and advancement.
• MAPAL will train you both in the United States and abroad.
• We offer tuition reimbursement.
• We offer wellness programs.