Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
Flowserve is seeking a consultative, industry-connected Sales Engineer to step directly into a high-performing, established Corpus Christi sales territory. This position represents a clean backfill opportunity, meaning you will immediately receive an active, functioning book of business valued between $3 Million and $4 Million in annual target booking potential.
You will serve as the primary commercial and technical anchor for our local customers, managing everything from initial engineering proposals and solution evaluations to downstream turnaround support, component repairs, and quality management. If you have deep roots in the Corpus Christi industrial space, a strong mechanical aptitude, and a passion for navigating complex client relationships on-site, this is your opportunity to drive regional commercial execution with a global leader.
Core Responsibilities
Territory Commercial Ownership: Manage an active account matrix to meet and exceed an assigned annual booking target between $3M and $4M.
Embedded Plant Account Management: Maintain routine, planned on-site communication and technical alignment with operators, reliability teams, and engineering leads inside local industrial multi-story facilities.
Cross-Functional Customer Advocacy: Act as the primary business contact for regional operations, seamlessly managing engineering proposals, product delivery tracking, repair coordination, and warranty resolutions.
Solution-Based Selling: Leverage technical and financial acumen to demonstrate return on investment (ROI) and lifecycle cost reductions for plant upgrades and hardware switches.
Internal & Partner Collaboration: Partner directly with off-site application engineers, customer service desks, and localized manufacturing centers to ensure technical submittals perfectly align with client needs.
Requirements & Qualifications
Critical Territory Parameters (Must Haves):
Local Plant Credibility: Proven, direct experience frequently walking in and out of refineries and chemical plants within the localized Corpus Christi industrial corridor.
Refinery Asset Familiarity: Strong design and operational familiarity with critical plant hardware-specifically industrial valves, instrumentation, rotating pumps, mechanical seals, or auxiliary Pipes, Valves, and Fittings equipment .
Geographic Alignment: The candidate must permanently reside in or completely relocate to the Corpus Christi, TX metropolitan area . Familiarity and established technical relationships within this specific local industry track are highly prioritized.
General Qualifications:
Education & Scope: BS or BA degree in a relevant engineering, business, or technical field is preferred, alongside 3-6 years of progressive industrial sales, account management, or technical operations experience.
Refinery Environment Capability: Willingness and capability to perform necessary physical actions on-site, including walking expansive plant footprints, lifting components up to 50 lbs, and ascending/descending outdoor structural ladders or staircases.
Commercial Skills: Demonstrated capability in technical product demonstrations, financial solution structuring, business report generation, and leading formal client update meetings.
Preferred Experience / Skills
Sales experience with Control Valves, Isolation Valves, Digital Positioners, and Valve actuators.
Experience in the refining, Chemical, Water, Power, and LNG gas, and power industries, including familiarity with valve instrumentation.
Training in sales techniques, negotiations and business finance
Demonstrated skills in leading meetings, including setting agendas, preparing, facilitating discussions and assigning follow-up activities
Ability to lead root cause failure analysis and communicate results - Strong verbal and written communication skills - Project management experience is a plus - BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 4-8 years relevant experience.
Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.
Req ID : R-20277
Job Family Group : Sales
Job Family : SA Sales
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