Sales Engineer, Filters (CP)
Whitecollars Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Human Resources · 11-50 employees
About the role
You will develop the market across Egypt by identifying new business opportunities and providing technically credible filtration solutions to customers. This involves conducting site surveys, preparing proposals, managing the sales pipeline, and collaborating with internal teams to deliver complex projects.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires 2–5 years of experience in technical sales or application engineering, specifically within air filtration, HVAC, or industrial equipment. A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, HVAC, or a related engineering discipline is mandatory, along with strong communication skills in English and Arabic.
Full description
If you combine strong technical knowledge with a genuine commercial mindset, this is an opportunity to take ownership of a growing market and help customers solve complex air-quality and filtration challenges.
Our Client is a global provider of advanced air filtration and clean air solutions serving commercial, industrial, and highly regulated environments. Its solutions help organizations improve air quality, protect critical processes, enhance operational efficiency, and reduce energy consumption. The business works across a broad range of applications where reliable filtration and controlled environments are essential.
Why This Opportunity MattersAs a Sales Engineer - Clean Process & Filtration, you will sit at the intersection of engineering, customer relationships, and business development.
You will be responsible for developing sales opportunities across Egypt while providing customers with technically credible solutions, not simply selling products. From understanding a customer's operating environment and conducting site assessments to sizing solutions, preparing proposals, and supporting specifications and tenders, you will have meaningful ownership of the customer journey.
The role is particularly suited to someone who enjoys being close to customers, understands technical products, and can translate engineering requirements into commercial value.
What You'll Own• Develop the market across Egypt by identifying and engaging customers, consultants, contractors, and potential accounts within clean process and industrial environments.
- Build new business opportunities across sectors such as Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Food & Beverage, Automotive and EV, Biosafety, Electronics and Optics, Semiconductor Manufacturing, and related industries.
- Grow customer relationships by becoming a trusted technical contact and understanding the operational and technical challenges behind each requirement.
- Conduct site surveys and filter audits to assess customer needs and determine appropriate filtration solutions.
- Size and specify technical solutions based on application requirements, air-quality needs, energy efficiency, and overall value.
- Prepare technically and commercially sound quotations, including life-cycle cost and energy-saving considerations where relevant.
- Support consultants and contractors during specification and tender stages, helping ensure solutions are appropriately positioned and technically supported.
- Manage the sales pipeline and forecasting process through accurate CRM activity, opportunity tracking, reporting, and market intelligence.
- Work cross-functionally with application engineering, inside sales, and operations to develop and deliver complex proposals on time.
- Represent the business at relevant exhibitions and industry events, as well as customer presentations, workshops, and site visits.
- Achieve and exceed sales objectives by combining disciplined business development with consultative, value-based selling.
What Makes You SuccessfulYou'll thrive in this role if you are technically confident but equally comfortable having commercial conversations with customers.
You should bring:
- 2–5 years of experience in technical sales or application engineering, ideally within air filtration, HVAC, dust collection, or industrial equipment.
- A Bachelor's degree or technical diploma in Mechanical, HVAC, or a closely related engineering discipline, with relevant exposure to clean process environments.
- Practical knowledge of air filtration, ventilation, industrial or process filtration, dust and fume collection, molecular filtration, and/or HVAC filtration.
- Experience conducting site surveys, filter audits, application assessments, and technical solution development.
- A demonstrated ability to develop accounts and consistently work toward or achieve sales targets in a technical product environment.
- Experience working with pharmaceutical and/or food & beverage customers, particularly where quality and regulatory requirements influence purchasing decisions.
- Strong English and Arabic communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong negotiation, relationship-building, customer management, and presentation skills.
- A valid driving licence and reliable access to a vehicle for business travel.
- The flexibility to travel regularly across Egypt for customer meetings, site visits, presentations, and industry events.
What's In It For YouThis role gives you the opportunity to build on your technical sales experience while taking broader ownership of market development and customer relationships.
You'll work on technically meaningful projects, engage directly with customers and industry stakeholders, contribute to complex solution proposals, and develop expertise across applications where air quality, process protection, energy efficiency, and operational performance matter.
It is an opportunity to grow within a specialized technical-commercial environment while making a visible contribution to the development of the business in Egypt.
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