Sales Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.

Sales Engineer at Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division acting as a technical expert to provide solutions for gas projects. Identifying customer needs and building strong stakeholder relationships.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeIrving • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $128,470 - $192,710 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify customer technical requirements, pain points, and use cases, providing solutions tailored to their business needs
Build relationships with technical stakeholders within customer organizations to ensure long-term satisfaction and adoption
Assist in writing and reviewing the technical portions of proposals and Requests for Proposal (RFP’s)
Share customer feedback with internal product and engineering teams to aid in product development

Requirements

What you’ll need

Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions
Extensive Experience in facilitating creation of the 'right' products and services to resolve customer business issues
Ability to foster strong customer relationships via delivery on commitments, open communication, and on-going feedback/improvement
Advises others on creating customer focused environments in various scenarios
Anticipates customer needs, focusing efforts to proactively meet needs and exceed customer expectations
Measures and observes customer satisfaction levels to ascertain and implement service improvement alternatives
Communicates and models the criticality of customer focus as an organizational strategy
Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters
Current working knowledge of the regulatory environment for industry segment
Decision Making and Critical Thinking expertise
Effective communications skills with ability to adapt documents and presentations for the intended audience
Relationship Management techniques to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers
Extensive Experience in applying value selling principles and practices

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
401(k) savings plans*
Health Savings Account (HSA)*
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
Health Lifestyle Programs*
Employee Assistance Program*
Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
Career Development*
Incentive bonus*
Disability benefits
Life Insurance
Parental leave
Adoption benefits
Tuition Reimbursement

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Soft Skills

customer relationship managementopen communicationcustomer focusdecision makingcritical thinkingrelationship managementvalue sellingcustomer satisfaction measurementfeedback improvementproactive needs anticipation