Lead Service Sales Engineer

Lead Service Sales Engineer

Eaton's ES AMER NAS division is currently seeking a Lead Service Sales Engineer. Candidates must reside within 50 miles of one of the following locations to be considered for the position: Tukwila, WA; Kennewick, WA; Spokane, WA or Wilsonville, OR.

What You'll Do:

Position Overview: The Lead Service Sales Engineer - Brownfield Datacenter Service Sales Specialist is responsible for driving service revenue growth within existing and new, operational large scale single or multi-tenant data centers by identifying, positioning and selling Eaton's electrical services portfolio. This role serves as the technical commercial lead for brownfield environments, owning customer engagement from opportunity identification through scope definition, proposal development and order capture.

The position focuses on life cycle services for installed electrical infrastructureensuring reliability, uptime, safety and compliance across gray space and white space assets in live data center environments.

In this function you will:

• Own service sales strategy for existing data center campuses operating in live environments
• Identify and qualify Brownfield opportunities related to:
• Preventive & predictive maintenance (PM, IR, torque, relay testing)
• Emergency response, troubleshooting and corrective repair
• Switchgear, breaker, ATS, UPS and generator modernization
• Controls, protection, relay and monitoring upgrades
• Engineering studies (arc flash, coordination, short circuit, load flow)
• Proactively expand annual service agreements and multi year service programs tied to uptime and risk reduction
• Act as the primary technical sales interface for data center operators, facility managers, and data center ownership teams
• Lead job walks, site assessments and Brownfield discovery sessions while facilities remain energized and operational
• Translate complex electrical conditions into clear, value-based service scopes aligned to customer risk, uptime and compliance drivers
• Maintain accurate quoting activity in Salesforce and deliver monthly sales forecasts
• Develop and present customer proposals in collaboration with the Technical Application Support team (TAS), ensuring clarity and alignment on all opportunities
• Collaborate with Eaton Engineering Services, field service engineers (FSE's), DOC teams and Project Operations to ensure executable solutions

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum five (5) years of field service, electrical industry sales and/or electrical engineering experience
• Possess a valid driver's license
• No relocation benefit is offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Tukwila, WA; Kennewick, WA; Spokane, WA or Wilsonville, OR will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
• This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. government export regulations applicable to that information, an applicant must be a U.S. person defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business
• Previous electrical sales experience
• Previous selling service-based solutions
• Familiarity with the operational needs of a data center

Skills:

Position Criteria:

• Possess excellent communication skills
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
• Knowledge of key customers and ability to grow relationships at those customers in multiple levels of the organization
• Ability to assess customer needs, provide clear, competitive quotations and overcome customer objections to win and grow the business
• Demonstrates understanding of market trends, industry issues and knowledge of competitors
• Ability to leverage support personnel to meet customer needs and work cross functionally in the organization to serve customers
• Knowledge of Eaton electrical product and service capabilities and ability to sell solutions to meet customer needs
• Effective implementation of Eaton's internal sales process
• Effective interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Time management, presentation and planning skills
• Ability to travel up to 50%

The compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. This position has a target total compensation range of $148,500 - $217,800.

Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.