About Praxair Surface Technologies

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc. (PST), a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., a global industrial gas company, offers a comprehensive array of high-performance coatings and technologies to the aviation, energy, and other industries. By continuously advancing coatings technologies, PST helps customers improve environmental performance, decrease energy consumption, extend component life, improve productivity, minimize downtime, reduce operating costs and produce high-quality products. Additional information about PST is available at

Job Overview

The Technical Sales Engineer supports the global sales team from a technical materials engineering standpoint, quotes new powder products and helps support production with instruction on how to manufacturer new powder products, assists in the review of customer specifications and uses production knowledge to establish alignment with customers on new opportunities to grow the powder business. Primary objectives of this position will be to help the commercial team find and secure growth in both Additive Manufacturing and Thermal Spray powder sales through, new product qualifications, production planning, schedule optimization, customer visits and technical presentations. This position can be performed at a remote location (located in the USA) and should be available to travel up to 25% of the time.

Requirements

• Works independently and judicially to support a global commercial team through technical, commercial, and quality guidance
• Functions as a primary contact between primary production sites (e.g., Indianapolis) and the international sales network (e.g., Europe)
• Review's customer specification and provides feedback in a timely manner
• Develops instructions for new product introduction and assists with the first article of inspection process
• Interfaces with the production team to help plan and execute critical customer orders
• Provides assistance to procurement and production in regard to supply chain issues or raw material purchasing
• Helps drive new product qualifications with key customers
• Responsible for helping account managers achieve global sales targets
• Communicates directly and presents to customers on a regular basis
• Provides guidance for new product or special product quotations
• Travels up to 25% of time to customers and production sites
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Engineering
• Work experience: 3-5 years in a related field of powder manufacturing and/or gas atomization of metals

• Proven problem-solving capability
• Effective communication and presentation Skills
• Demonstration of specific process knowledge (manufacturing, alloy design, quality, safety, and packaging of powder products)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Wavefront, Oracle, and Salesforce
• Master's or Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering

Access to export controlled technology/technical data and/or items required to perform this Position are subject to the laws of the United States (including but not limited to the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR"), 15 C.F.R. Parts 730-799, and/or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ("ITAR"), 22 C.F.R. Part 120-130) and the company's export control procedures, pursuant to which the release of such technology/technical data and/or items to anyone other than a U.S. Person* may be considered an export to the person's home country and may require authorization from the U.S. Government. Thus, additional information in this regard may be required from applicants for this Position. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

*Pursuant to the EAR and the ITAR, a U.S. Person includes any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship, any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence (i.e., a "green card" holder), or any individua

l who is granted political asylum or other protected status under applicable law.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.