Description
About us:
Founded in Brooklyn in 1918 by Robert Lee Johannsen, Lee Spring has grown into a global manufacturer with locations across the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia — stocking more than 25,000 catalog products alongside custom-engineered solutions.
If you're looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you've found it. As a Sales Engineer at Lee Spring, you won't just sell a catalog part number — you'll act as a customer's technical partner, translating force, motion, and fatigue requirements into a spring or wire form solution that works in their application.
The Sales Engineer is a customer-facing, technically fluent role responsible for growing new business and expanding existing accounts by delivering value-based spring and formed wire solutions. You'll serve as the connective tissue between sales, engineering, and operations — making sure every solution that reaches a customer is manufacturable, cost-effective, and built to perform.
What You’ll Do:
Customer-Facing & Business Development
- Research and identify new account opportunities within assigned territories
- Build long-term relationships with customer engineering and purchasing teams
- Confer with customers to assess application needs — force, motion, fatigue resistance, and durability
Technical Estimation & Quoting
- Prepare technical estimates and formal quotations that balance performance, manufacturability, cost, and lead time
- Develop, present, and respond to proposals, including RFP responses for industry-specific solutions
Design & Program Support
- Support spring and formed wire design work in partnership with internal engineering
- Guide projects through prototyping, testing, PPAP, and customer qualification
- Support new program launches with analytics-driven problem solving and continuous improvement
Challenges You’ll Navigate
- Winning trust with engineers who need precision, not a sales pitch
- Moving fast on quotes while making sure what's quoted can be built
- Managing a full project lifecycle — from first conversation through production launch — without losing momentum
Qualifications
Qualifications
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field
- 2–4 years of experience spanning engineering and sales-facing work
- Working knowledge of engineering principles and their practical application to product design
- Strong communication skills — written, verbal, and presentation
- Comfort with quantitative work: quoting, cost analysis, and technical proposal development
- No prior spring industry experience required — Lee Spring provides training and team support to help you succeed
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related field
- 2-4 years of experience spanning engineering and sales-facing work
- Working knowledge of engineering principles and their practical application to product design
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
- Comfort with quantitative work, including quoting, cost analysis, and technical proposal development
What We Do
Lee Spring Company LLC manufactures and distributes mechanical springs, wire forms, stampings, and fourslide parts worldwide. It offers more than 25,000 inventoried stock products in various materials, available for immediate shipment, while also producing custom springs to customer specifications. Founded in Brooklyn in 1918, the company provides catalog and custom-designed spring solutions, supported by engineering expertise and locations across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
