Audio Visual Pre Sales Engineer - Vega Europe
- Company
- Manor Royal Business District
- Location
- Crawley, West Sussex
- Salary
- Competitive dependant on experience, + benefits
- Posted
- 02 Jan 2018
- Closes
- 30 Jan 2018
- Sector
- Defence, Engineering
- Function
- Engineer
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
The company: established and headquartered in Hong Kong, 1986, it now employs over 500 AV/VC personnel, with regional offices in China, Hong Kong, India, Australia, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam and United Kingdom, and strategic partners throughout Western Europe and the United States. In two decades, the company has expanded into a leading global total solutions provider with over 6,000 clients. Services include audiovisual consulting, product supply, engineering, acoustic consulting, as well as a turnkey AV/VC support and maintenance capability. Their diverse portfolio includes investment, education, legal, healthcare, residential, and airport sectors as well as fortune 500 and large multinational firms.
The Role;
We have a permanent full-time position available immediately in our Operations Team, for a highquality Pre Sales Engineer.
As a Pre-Sales Engineer you will be responsible for designing and drafting systems for business proposals brought in by the sales team, ensuring that quotes are technically correct before they are signed off. You will also be responsible for the following; providing technical support to the sales team throughout the sales process, writing technical specs, specifying correct equipment required for each sales proposal, providing simple concept drawings for the quotes, preparing supporting documents and detailed drawings for projects that have been sold, assisting the sales team during client meetings to confirm and ensure that the technical requirements are correct. Main Job Tasks &
Responsibilities:
Technical interpretation of client and sales team specifications
Conducting technical site surveys of client sites to enable accurate sales proposals
Producing Bill of Materials including all equipment and professional services required for project completion
Estimation of project consumables for inclusion within proposals
Providing direction to enable the production of proof of concept schematics and technical overview documentation
Authoring scope of works for proposed projects
Proof checking colleague’s system designs
Attending client meetings in conjunction with the BDM’s to present Vega’s technical proposals
Identifying upsell opportunities and briefing the relevant BDM
Keeping up to date with current and emerging AV/UC technologies
Experience & qualifications
• Minimum 2 years AV/UC system design experience
• Infocomm CTS, CTS-D or CTS-I certification an advantage
• Thorough knowledge of AutoCAD and/or Stardraw
• Thorough knowledge of MS Office
Key Competencies
Lateral thinking and problem solving skills
Planning, coordination and organisation
Excellent communication skills
Excellent Client facing skills
Team working and customer service skills
Flexibility and adaptability
An awareness of new and emerging technologies
An in-depth understanding of AV technology theory