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Overview
Sales engineers combine technical product knowledge with business-to-business sales, often adapting heavy equipment or vehicle-related solutions to customer needs.
In job descriptions, look for technical customisation, customer advice, quotations, repair costs, warranty contracts, territory planning, sales targets, maintenance coordination and quality checks.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Sales engineer work sits between technical product adaptation and business sales. The role discusses customer requirements, prepares quotations, coordinates repair or maintenance services and keeps quality, warranty and cost issues visible.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include customer advice on vehicles or heavy equipment, technical communication, repair cost calculation, warranty contract compliance, territory planning, sales targets, road testing and quality checks.
Salary context
Salary context depends on product complexity, sales territory, quotation responsibility, technical customization, maintenance coordination, revenue targets and whether the role owns long business relationships or supports account teams.
Career paths
Career paths can move from technical sales support into key account work, service coordination, product specialist roles, regional sales management or technical consulting for vehicle, construction equipment or capital goods customers.
Good to know
Check whether the vacancy names the product range, customer type, quotation authority, repair process, warranty duties and sales targets. Clear adverts show how much engineering judgment is expected.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Wholesale of household goods
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is technical sales representative.
Explore this activityWholesale of other machinery, equipment and supplies
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Another occupation there is technical sales representative.
Explore this activityOther specialised wholesale
Another possibility is this activity. Another occupation there is technical sales representative.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Sales Engineers
41-9031.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
AltoTrail validates and presents the source relationships without adding ranking or recommendation semantics.
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.6Wholesale of other machinery, equipment and supplies46.5Wholesale of information and communication equipment47.8Retail sale of motor vehicles, motorcycles and related parts and accessories46.7Wholesale of motor vehicles, motorcycles and related parts and accessories46.8Other specialised wholesale46.14Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft46.4Wholesale of household goods
Alternative labels
coach sales engineer
PCV sales engineer
bus sales technician
bus and coach sales technician
heavy vehicle sales technician
LGV sales technician
light vehicle sales technician
LGV sales engineer
bus and coach sales engineer
coach sales technician
heavy vehicle sales engineer
bus sales engineer
PCV sales technician
light vehicle sales engineer
Occupation group
Technical and medical sales professionals (excluding ICT) (2433)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8529edc5-96ad-4cde-b34a-f86ad3753e4d |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2433.4 |
| ISCO group | 2433 |
| Concept type | Occupation |