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Join our global team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.\nAbout the role\nTechnical Sales Engineer is responsible for providing technical expertise and support throughout the sales process, from initial customer engagement to post-sale implementation. This role involves analyzing customer requirements, preparing technical proposals, and delivering product demonstrations. The Sr. Sales Engineer ensures that solutions are technically sound and aligned with customer needs.Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan\nWe are looking for a technically strong Sales Engineer for industrial pumps and rotating equipment.\nThis role is not a pure sales position. The successful candidate should be able to understand customer processes, read technical documentation, discuss operating conditions, prepare technically correct offers, and support customers during project execution.\nAt the same time, the role requires commercial initiative: regular customer visits, development of new opportunities, follow-up of installed base, preparation of technical presentations/seminars, and active contribution to order intake growth in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.\nThe role is approximately 60-70% technical/application engineering and 30-40% commercial sales development.\nMain responsibilities/Technical/Application sales\nAnalyze customer requests, technical specifications, data sheets, operating conditions, and tender requirements.\n\nPrepare technically and commercially correct offers for industrial pumps, rotating equipment, and spare parts.\n\nClarify technical requirements with customers, Sulzer factories, tendering teams, engineering teams, and service teams.\n\nSupport the technical documentation approval process between customers and Sulzer factories.\n\nReview customer comments to technical/commercial documents and coordinate required changes.\n\nParticipate in technical discussions with customers, design institutes, EPCs, and end users.\n\nCustomer and business development\nDevelop regional sales in Kazakhstan and Central Asia with focus on mining, metallurgy, chemical industry, mineral fertilizers, and general industry.\n\nMaintain and develop relationships with existing customers.\n\nSearch for new customers, applications, projects, and installed-base opportunities.\n\nPlan customer visits, technical meetings, seminars, webinars, and product presentations.\n\nBuild opportunity pipeline and contribute to order intake growth.\n\nTendering, order execution, and coordination\nPrepare tender documentation, including work with electronic tender platforms.\n\nReview commercial conditions and support contract approval with customers.\n\nRegister orders in SAP and coordinate order execution.\n\nMonitor delivery timelines and communicate with customers, factories, logistics, accounting, and tendering teams.\n\nReport activities, maintain forecasts, and provide regular updates on sales opportunities.\n\nRequirements\nHigher technical education: mechanical engineering, hydraulic engineering, process engineering, materials science, or similar.\n\nMinimum 3 years of experience with industrial equipment, preferably pumps, compressors, rotating equipment, process equipment, or engineered products.\n\nAbility to read and understand technical specifications, pump data sheets, drawings, and customer RFQs.\n\nUnderstanding of centrifugal pump principles: flow, head, efficiency, NPSH, pump curves, operating point, cavitation risk.\n\nBasic understanding of industrial materials: cast iron, carbon steel, stainless steel, duplex/superduplex, elastomers, coatings.\n\nExperience with industrial customers in mining, metallurgy, chemical industry, oil & gas, power, water/wastewater, or general industry.\n\nWorking professional English and fluent Russian. Kazakh is an advantage.\n\nReadiness for regular business trips across Kazakhstan and Central Asia.\n\nStrong communication skills, ability to conduct technical discussions and presentations.\n\nIndependence, attention to detail, responsibility, stress resistance, and focus on result.\n\nStrong advantage\nExperience with centrifugal pumps, slurry pumps, multistage pumps, compressors, agitators, or other rotating equipment.\n\nExperience in mining/metallurgy or chemical industry.\n\nExperience with SAP/CRM or similar systems.\n\nExperience in international industrial companies.\n\nAbility to conduct technical presentations or seminars for customers.\n\nKnowledge of pump selection software or basic hydraulic calculations.\n\nThis role may be a good fit for you if\nYou like industrial equipment and technically complex products.\n\nYou are comfortable speaking with engineers, mechanics, maintenance teams, and plant managers.\n\nYou prefer long-term industrial sales, not fast transactional sales.\n\nYou can combine technical analysis with customer communication.\n\nYou are not afraid of business trips, site visits, tenders, technical discussions, and responsibility for results.\n\nYou want to grow in an international engineering company with strong products, technical know-how, and long-term customer relationships.\n\nThis role is probably not the best fit if\nYou are looking for a purely office-based engineering role without customer visits.\n\nYou prefer only communication and negotiations, but do not want to work with technical documentation.\n\nYou have mainly general sales experience and limited interest in understanding industrial equipment.\n\nYou are not comfortable with tenders, technical specifications, drawings, calculations, and detailed follow-up.\n\nYou expect only short-cycle sales; our projects may require long-term development and technical support.\n\nWhat we offer\nRole in an international engineering company and one of the recognized leaders in industrial pumping and rotating equipment.\n\nWork with technically complex projects and major industrial customers in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.\n\nCompetitive fixed salary and annual performance bonus depending on business results and individual performance.\n\nGood office environment in Almaty.\n\nOpportunity to work with international factories, engineering teams, and technical experts.\n\nLong-term professional development in industrial technical sales.\n\nAs part of the selection process, candidates may be asked to complete a short practical technical task based on a customer RFQ, pump data sheet, or technical specification.\nWhat we offer you\nAs per local requirements\nSulzer is an equal opportunity employer. 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