CORE Transformers is seeking an accomplished Sales Engineer to serve as the senior technical and commercial authority for complex new construction projects. This influential role will help shape winning strategies for hyperscale data centers, renewable energy facilities, and industrial developments.
Key Responsibilities
- New Construction Bid Leadership: Serve as the senior technical and commercial lead on complex new construction bids, shaping scope, specification interpretation, and win strategy on the projects with the highest engineering complexity and commercial risk.
- Commercial Guidance on Complex Quotes: Provide commercial judgment on pricing strategy, risk positioning, and scope trade-offs for non-standard, engineered-to-order proposals — translating technical complexity into a defensible, winning commercial position.
- Market Intelligence & Strategic Guidance: Act as CORE's market guide for the new construction segment — tracking competitor positioning, spec trends, utility and developer requirements, and pricing dynamics, and translating that intelligence into guidance the Sales Engineer 1 team can act on.
- Working Team Leadership & Development: Serve as a hands-on, working leader for the Sales Engineer 1 group — reviewing complex quotes, coaching technical and commercial reasoning, acting as the escalation point for difficult specifications, and building the team's capability to take on more complex work over time.
- Technical Spec Review (Complex Projects): Analyze customer drawings, one-line diagrams, and utility interconnection requirements on the most technically demanding projects and specify transformer requirements for the factory accordingly.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner with factory engineering, product engineering, and White Glove teams to resolve non-standard configuration and retrofit challenges on new construction projects.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related field preferred; extensive field experience in transformer application engineering, testing, and repair is highly valued in lieu of a degree.
- 15+ years of experience in transformer sales engineering, application engineering, switchgear, or power systems engineering, with deep expertise in medium-voltage (up to 35 kV) power transformation and new construction/engineered project work.
- Demonstrated success leading technical and commercial strategy on complex, high-value bids — data centers, renewable energy plants, and industrial new-build projects.
- Strong working knowledge of the competitive landscape, pricing dynamics, and specification trends across the medium-voltage transformer market, with the ability to translate that knowledge into actionable guidance for the team.
- Proven ability to mentor, coach, and develop less experienced engineers — acting as a working leader rather than a people manager, with credibility that comes from hands-on technical depth.
- Advanced proficiency in reading and interpreting electrical drawings, single-line diagrams, specifications, utility interconnection agreements, and protection schemes.
- Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to walk a job site in steel-toed boots and present technical and commercial strategy to executive leadership and customers in a boardroom.
Why Join Us: At CORE Transformers, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact from day one. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment where your ideas and initiatives are valued.
Location: This is an on-site position based in Seneca, SC (just outside Greenville & near Clemson University).
If you are passionate about satisfying customer expectations and are ready to take on a rewarding challenge, apply now to join our dynamic team at CORE Transformers!
CORE Transformers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or a related field
- 15+ years of experience in transformer sales engineering, application engineering, switchgear, or power systems engineering
- Deep expertise in medium-voltage power transformation up to 35 kV and new-construction engineered projects
- Demonstrated success leading technical and commercial strategy on complex, high-value bids
- Experience with data centers, renewable energy plants, or industrial new-build projects
- Strong knowledge of competitive positioning, pricing dynamics, and specification trends in the medium-voltage transformer market
- Ability to mentor, coach, and develop less experienced engineers
- Advanced proficiency interpreting electrical drawings, single-line diagrams, specifications, utility interconnection agreements, and protection schemes
- Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to work on job sites in steel-toed boots and present technical and commercial strategies to executives and customers
- Extensive field experience in transformer application engineering, testing, and repair may substitute for a degree
What We Do
CORE Transformers supplies electrical distribution and power transformers for commercial, industrial, renewable-energy, and critical-power applications. It offers new, reconditioned, and made-to-order units, plus transformer repairs, customizations, rentals, and related support. The company emphasizes product availability, rapid delivery, reliability, and tailored solutions, serving customers such as data centers, utilities, contractors, and renewable-energy developers with transformer products and services across a range of project sizes and operating environments.
