Sales Engineer

Job Details: Job Location: Lee Spring Brooklyn

• Brooklyn, NY, Position Type: Full Time, Salary Range: $70000.00 - $80000.00Salary/year, Job Category: Sales, Description About us: Founded in Brooklyn in 1918 by Robert Lee Johannsen, Lee Spring has grown into a global manufacturer with locations across the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia — stocking more than 25,000 catalog products alongside custom-engineered solutions. If you're looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you've found it. As a Sales Engineer at Lee Spring, you won't just sell a catalog part number — you'll act as a customer's technical partner, translating force, motion, and fatigue requirements into a spring or wire form solution that works in their application. The Sales Engineer is a customer-facing, technically fluent role responsible for growing new business and expanding existing accounts by delivering value-based spring and formed wire solutions. You'll serve as the connective tissue between sales, engineering, and operations — making sure every solution that reaches a customer is manufacturable, cost-effective, and built to perform. What You’ll Do: Customer-Facing & Business Development Research and identify new account opportunities within assigned territories Build long-term relationships with customer engineering and purchasing teams Confer with customers to assess application needs — force, motion, fatigue resistance, and durability Technical Estimation & Quoting Prepare technical estimates and formal quotations that balance performance, manufacturability, cost, and lead time Develop, present, and respond to proposals, including RFP responses for industry-specific solutions Design & Program Support Support spring and formed wire design work in partnership with internal engineering Guide projects through prototyping, testing, PPAP, and customer qualification Support new program launches with analytics-driven problem solving and continuous improvement Challenges You’ll Navigate Winning trust with engineers who need precision, not a sales pitch Moving fast on quotes while making sure what's quoted can be built Managing a full project lifecycle — from first conversation through production launch — without losing momentum Qualifications: Qualifications Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field 2–4 years of experience spanning engineering and sales-facing work Working knowledge of engineering principles and their practical application to product design Strong communication skills — written, verbal, and presentation Comfort with quantitative work: quoting, cost analysis, and technical proposal development No prior spring industry experience required — Lee Spring provides training and team support to help you succeed