Senior Chemical Equipment Sales Engineer

Most days mix complex deal work, mentorship, and senior customer engagement — leading technical engagement on major chemical equipment opportunities, mentoring junior SEs, partnering with senior account executives on strategic deals, contributing to product or technology strategy, and supporting executive customer conversations. You're often working at process equipment manufacturers, specialty fluid handling companies, or industrial distributors, and the customer industry — petrochem, pharma, food and beverage, water — sets the technical depth.

What tends to be harder than people expect is the chemical process knowledge combined with senior responsibility. Process compatibility, materials of construction, and process safety all matter, plant visits and customer technical pressure are real, and mentoring junior SEs is real senior work. Industry credentials, specialty depth, and AE partnership shape career growth.

People who tend to thrive here are technically credible, comfortable with chemical engineering language, willing to mentor and travel, and patient with industrial sales cycles. If you want pure design, that lives elsewhere. If you like leading chemical equipment technical sales, the role offers durable demand and a clear path toward principal SE or specialty industrial commercial leadership.