Description:

Automation Engineering Corporation (AEC) seeks an extraordinary Business Development professional to help our customers solve manufacturing problems with state of the art factory automation machines and systems. AEC serves customers in a wide variety of industries, in multiple countries, each with challenging and unique requirements that will stretch you technically and professionally.
You will be challenged to produce your best output to propose and sell systems incorporating robotics, machinery, vision sensors, plant networks and data, control systems and instruments. We are devoted to integrity, teamwork, proficiency, and perseverance.

AEC Business Development Leader will participate in:

• Developing strategy and plans to identify markets and prospects
• Qualify, meet and introduce prospects to AEC
• Solicit opportunities for business
• Develop concepts, proposals, estimates
• Close sales opportunities
• Develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with customers, prospects and partners
• Continual improvement

We develop and continually improve our world class project delivery model. We extensively train all of Team AEC. We offer a pleasant, family oriented “play hard – work hard” environment.
AEC recognizes and rewards our “A” players. Compensation includes salary, benefits, profit sharing, and performance bonus. AEC also understands the value of incentive based compensation. You will be well compensated based on your success in developing new business.

We offer:

• Professional development
• Exposure and opportunity in a growing company
• Interesting technology with world class customer base
• Opportunity to develop into operational or executive management
• Professional recognition and reward
• Opportunity to join a first class team of like minded, exceptional people
• Competitive pay, excellent benefits

AEC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

For information on the Greenville, SC area, please see:

• Greenville.com (area events)
• GreenvilleOnline.com (area news)
• GreenvilleCounty.org (local government)
• UpstateAlliance.com (area statistics and information)

AEC provides a full range of factory automation services:

• Mechanical and electrical design for factory automation systems and equipment
• Custom fabricated machinery and control panels
• Installation and startup
• Training, support, and service
• AEC was founded in 1981 and operates from a 55,000 ft2 facility off Pelham Road in Greenville, South Carolina. AEC is privately held and is employee owned.

Requirements:

• Most candidates should have a degree in engineering, physics, etc. Lack of degree is not a disqualification for the right person.
• 5 years demonstrated success in project, automated, equipment sales
• 2 years experience in manufacturing industry

The ideal AEC Business Development Leader will have many or all of these traits:

• Excellent communicator: listening, speaking, reading, writing
• Understand, adopt, endorse, and promote a corporate culture of customer focus, integrity, teamwork, technical excellence, and perseverance.
• Experience preparing automation project proposals budgets and cost estimates
• Hard working, self motivated
• Results focused
• Experience with automated systems design
• Well organized
• Creative / Innovative
• History of continued education and professional development
• Knowledge of current automation technology
• Mechanical background or aptitude
• Pay attention to the details and the big picture
• Formal sales training
• MBA

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