Senior Sales Engineer
Join Clarke Energy as a Senior Sales Engineer
Drive the transition to resilient, efficient energy solutions
At Clarke Energy, our Senior Sales Engineer plays a pivotal role in helping customers reduce energy costs, improve resilience and achieve their sustainability goals. Combining technical expertise with commercial understanding, you'll work with energy-intensive organisations to identify opportunities, develop tailored solutions and secure high-value engineering projects.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building relationships, solving complex challenges and shaping projects from initial customer engagement through to contract award. You'll spend much of your time working directly with customers, developing commercially attractive and technically robust solutions whilst representing the Clarke Energy brand and values.
What you'll be doing
Building new business opportunities
You'll proactively identify and develop a strong pipeline of prospects across a range of industrial and commercial sectors. Using market intelligence, industry knowledge and networking opportunities, you'll engage directly with high-energy users and key stakeholders to uncover opportunities for Clarke Energy's solutions.
Working with consultants, specifiers and other industry influencers, you'll position Clarke Energy as a trusted energy partner and create opportunities for long-term growth.
Developing customer relationships
You'll meet regularly with prospective and existing customers to understand their operational, commercial and sustainability objectives. By combining your technical knowledge with a consultative sales approach, you'll recommend solutions that address customer needs while clearly demonstrating the value and differentiators of the Clarke Energy offering.
Building strong relationships is central to success in this role. You'll become a trusted technical resource, helping customers navigate complex energy challenges and supporting them throughout the decision-making process.
Managing proposals and securing projects
You'll coordinate the preparation of customer-focused technical and commercial proposals, feasibility studies and supporting documentation. Working closely with colleagues across engineering, proposals and project delivery teams, you'll ensure submissions are accurate, competitive and aligned with customer requirements.
From initial enquiry through to contract award, you'll help manage the sales process, support negotiations and contribute to securing profitable orders with acceptable commercial terms.
Providing market insight
You'll monitor market developments, competitor activity and regulatory changes, feeding valuable information back into the business. Your input will support forecasting, budgeting and wider sales and marketing planning activities.
You'll also represent Clarke Energy at industry conferences, exhibitions and networking events, helping to raise awareness of our solutions and capabilities.
Upholding quality, safety and professionalism
As a customer-facing ambassador for Clarke Energy, you'll ensure all activities are conducted in line with our Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality standards. You'll demonstrate professionalism, integrity and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of service.
About you
You're commercially minded, technically credible and motivated by creating value for customers. You enjoy building relationships, influencing decision-makers and developing innovative solutions that help organisations achieve their objectives.
You'll likely bring
- Experience in a Technical Sales Engineering role involving high-value engineering projects
- Strong engineering knowledge and an understanding of technical applications
- A thorough understanding of the sales process for complex engineering solutions
- Excellent presentation, negotiation and communication skills
- Strong project management and organisational capabilities
- Good commercial awareness and the ability to balance risk and reward
- Strong IT skills and familiarity with CRM and Microsoft Office applications
- The resilience and determination to succeed in a competitive sales environment
Desirable experience
The following would be advantageous but are not essential
- Degree-qualified in Engineering or a related technical discipline
- Experience within the Energy, Waste or Environmental sectors
- An interest in emerging energy technologies and markets
- Experience developing and delivering energy infrastructure or industrial solutions
Why join Clarke Energy?
We believe exceptional customer solutions start with exceptional people. In return for your expertise, we offer:
- A very competitive salary, based on experience
- Car allowance
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays
- 7% company pension contribution
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Westfield Health cash plan
- Life assurance and employee assistance programme
- Investment in your professional development and career progression
- A collaborative culture where your ideas and contributions are genuinely valued
About Clarke Energy
Clarke Energy, a Rehlko company, is an award-winning multinational specialist in sustainable energy solutions. We design, install and maintain high-quality power generation systems, supporting customers as they transition towards more resilient, efficient and lower-carbon energy systems.
Our culture is built on integrity, technical excellence and long-term relationships, with both our customers and our people.
Ready to help shape the future of energy?
If you're a technically minded sales professional looking for the opportunity to work on meaningful projects, develop lasting customer relationships and contribute to a growing energy business, we'd love to hear from you.