Career Area:Engineering
Job Description:Job SummaryCaterpillar's Electric Power Division has an open opportunity as a Sales Support Engineer. The Sales Support Engineer will solve challenging engineering problems involving products, systems, and components using advanced simulation techniques and analysis.
What You Will Do- Collaborate with customers and outside sales team to scope and execute projects that meet the customer's needs.
- Recognize which products should be offered based on the customer's request for quote.
- Review Customer Drawings and Specifications and provide clarifications, exceptions, and deviations as required with bids.
- Use design configurators to build conceptual switchgear layouts to feed the costing tool.
- Use costing tools to provide costing for custom applications.
- Develop Sales Proposals.
- As quotes become orders, complete the Order Entry tasks necessary to facilitate the transfer of the project to the project execution teams.
- Keep up-to-date on new technologies and drive continuous improvement to established techniques.
What You Will Have- Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.
- Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
- Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
- Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components.
• Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.
• Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in one's general area of technical competence.
• Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.
Top Candidates Will Also Have- 4-year degree required; Electrical Engineering Degree Preferred.
- Experience with switchgears and switchboards.
- Understanding how to quote and price switchgears and switchboards.
- Understanding of PLC controls and computer controls.
Additional Information- This position is located in Alpharetta, GA.
- Travel up to 10% is required.
- Domestic relocation assistance is not offered for this position.
- Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.
- This position requires the candidate to work a 5-day-a-week schedule in the office.
Final DetailsThis employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers
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Summary Pay Range:$97,530.00 - $146,290.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
- 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
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Posting Dates:November 11, 2026 - November 24, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
