{"id":1064467,"url":"https://alion.io/job/eaton-senior-sales-engineer-10","title":"Senior Sales Engineer","company":{"id":6044,"name":"Eaton","domain":"eaton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/eaton","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":239,"ghost_share":0.004,"stale_share":0.339,"repost_share":0.038,"time_to_fill_p50_days":42,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Sales","role_family":"Sales","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Houston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":88000,"max_usd":184000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1808},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-15T22:21:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-17","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T18:52:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"Eaton’s North America Sales division is currently seeking a Senior Sales Engineer within 50 miles of Houston, TX.\nWhat you’ll do:\nPosition Overview:\nThe primary function of the Senior Sales Engineer is to sell assigned product lines to targeted customers in targeted market areas. This position will be responsible to achieve the assigned sales goal consistent with the expectations of a thoroughly seasoned professional sales engineer for the assigned product categories while under little supervision. It will be an expectation to optimize sales volume, product mix and profit margin, while increasing sales in the marketplace. This position will need to coordinate sales for the assigned customer and distributor base. It has the responsibility to manage all aspects of the customer relationship, providing sales and technical assistance with distributors, customers, end users and specifiers.\nThe primary functions include providing sales and technical assistance with distributors, contractors, end users and electrical group personnel; provide timely and accurate information for order entry, while elevating quality issues to attention of management, and ensuring that accurate information flows to market intelligence data on competitive products, customer needs preference and buying habits; support distributor inventories and inventory turns by recommending specific products and levels to be stocked; and provide necessary reports and surveys requested in a timely manner.\nIn this function you will:\nAccurately and timely plan and specify interpretation, quotation and technical support\nCommunicate with customers, warehouse and plants to facilitate problem resolution\nCollect, analyze and utilize market intelligence regarding competitive products, customer needs, preferences and buying habits\nReview and interpret customer needs on plans and specifications\nProvide facility timely solutions to customer issues by utilizing available resources or creating procedure for resolution\nBe aware of and respond to market conditions and competitive activities while communicating such information to product divisions\nPlan promotional events and presentations with distributor personnel to promote Eaton’s position, while developing a proven record of achieving assigned sales goals\nPrepare and present bids and quotations to customers using company price and delivery guidelines while using sound business judgment\nQualifications:\nRequired (Basic) Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited institution\nMinimum three (3) years of electrical industry experience\nPossess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver’s license\nAbility to travel 10% of the time.\nEaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.\nNo relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50 miles of Houston, TX will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering\nSkills:\nPosition Criteria:\nPossess excellent communication skills\nMust be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future\nKnowledge of key customers within sales territories\nTime management, presentation and planning skills\nCommands knowledge of Eaton electrical product and service capabilities and can assemble standard offerings to meet customer needs with occasional internal oversight\nPossess an understanding of the sales process using sales techniques as evidenced by good customer relationships\nSkilled in Bidmanager and Vista\nDemonstrated an understanding of market trends, industry issues and knowledge of competitors\nEffective interpersonal and teamwork skills\nAbility to leverage support personnel to meet customer and organizational needs\nAbility to travel up to 10%\nAll positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.\nThe compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. This position has a target total compensation range of $107,250 - $157,300\nBase salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\nEaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.\nYou do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.\nTo request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.\nWe know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. 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