The Sales Project Engineer will work with the various engineering groups to quote machine options, share machine information, and act as a technical liaison between Mazak engineering (HQ and Factories), and Mazak Sales (Direct and Distributors), and 3rd part vendors and partners. Work is performed mostly in office setting, with some work in the Technology Center and the Factory.

Scope and Responsibilities:

Essential duties include, but are not limited to the following:

* Proactively attains a safe and healthy work environment for all employees.

* Close engineering requests / quoting machine options, drawing requests, 3D m odel requests, and misc. detailed machine information

* Technical liaison between Mazak engineering (HQ and Factories), and Mazak Sales (Direct and Distributors), and 3rd party vendors and partners.

* Support assigned machine groups for customer option quotation and order processing support through installation

* Work directly with Marketing, Purchasing, Production, Sales and Executive Management to develop industry leading machine tool solutions; research competitor products to ensure and maintain market leadership.

* Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and work with vendors and contractors.

* Ability to apply critical thinking and problem-solving techniques to evaluate complex information.

* Create worksheets and pdf emails to document reaching conclusions. SPE will be assigned certain primary machine lines, and secondary machine lines.

* Provide detailed documentation to assist project development and design process.

* Monitor the engineering request database for new requests on their machines, and to put their name and date on the request and begin working on it.

* Additional tasks and special projects as assigned.

Education/Certification:

* High School diploma or equivalent

* Engineering degree is not required, but STEM related degree is desired.

Skills:

* Related experience quoting products or services

* Commercial awareness with an understanding of end user applications.

* Microsoft Office (Excel Outlook)

* Experience with data entry into web-based system.

* Experience with clearly writing technical descriptions.

* Team player with great interpersonal skills.

* Strong written and oral communication skills.

* CAD is not required but is desired.

* Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure.