Sales Manager BOP & Construction

Join UCC Environmental, a leader in sustainable technology solutions:

Looking for a career where your work has real impact? At UCC Environmental, you’ll join a company built on solving complex industrial challenges while advancing sustainable solutions for air, water, and solids handling around the world.

We’re a privately held, family-owned business with more than a century of experience supporting mission-critical industries. Our teams work with utility power providers and heavy industrial customers globally, delivering innovative solutions in environmental compliance, material handling, and high-performance aftermarket technologies.

At UCC Environmental, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, global team that values technical expertise, problem-solving, and long-term customer relationships. With continued growth across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, we offer opportunities to contribute meaningfully to an expanding international business.

Headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois, UCC owns and operates sales, manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing facilities across the United States, Canada, Germany, India, and China. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter, your work has purpose, and your career can grow alongside a global organization, UCC Environmental could be the right fit!

The focus of the position will be to leverage Balance of Plant Engineering and Pre-Construction Management expertise to sell add-on services within UCC’s Strategic Markets. Primary responsibilities will include technically supporting sales and estimating activities within the UCC markets. The role will also include making sales calls with UCC Field Sales team, Contractor selection, Sales proposal support, Customer interaction as well as training and development of UCC’s Sales engineering staff in Balance of Plant Engineering best practices and typical Construction activities.

Candidates must have demonstrated capabilities in collaborating with others to perform proposal/project tasks within a team environment within weak matrix organizational structure. Work experience with a privately held company will be beneficial.

• Develop proposal opportunities and close sales for Construction and Balance of Plant (includes engineering and equipment) opportunities as an expanded offering where UCC is providing a design and supply quote for the various systems in the portfolio.
• Submit and update opportunities in the proposal database (Sales Manager Forecast Sheet).
• Lead the technical estimate and scope definition of assigned proposals; providing creative solutions to cost effectively support BOP and Construction proposals.
• Achieve annual contract booking goals; including revenue and margin targets.
• Contribute to the annual Sales Plan to ensure market outlook is accurate.
• Review and comprehend the internal UCC processes for BOP and Construction and ensure the correct estimating and execution steps are followed.
• Edit, amend and/or update internal UCC estimating processes as necessary to ensure they align UCC with industry expectations.
• Review, comprehend and assist in maintaining UCC Corporate Safety policies to ensure there is alignment with Customers, partners and subcontractors.
• Review technical system designs and develop division of responsibility between UCC, outside engineering partner(s) and installing contractors.
• Develop and manage an estimating database for the purposes of creating internal installation pricing that will be used to verify, confirm and compare against Owner budget expectations as well as Contractor/Partner priced proposals for various projects.
• Develop and maintain an internal UCC database of BOP and Construction budgets that can be used and applied to future internal estimates, compare against Partner proposals as well as comparing to actual costs.
• Provide pricing estimates for various project opportunities within, or before, the timeframe expected by the Customer to meet their internal sense of urgency.
• Collaborate with UCC personnel to define and drive action which maximizes Customer satisfaction and UCC profitability.
• Attend Sales Calls with UCC Field Sales Team to…