Senior Sales Engineer

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies. We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards. John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. The Senior Sales Engineer is responsible for developing and executing sales strategies to drive profitable growth within the petrochemical, chemical, energy, and industrial sectors across the Secunda region. This includes identifying upgrade, retrofit, aftermarket, and reliability improvement opportunities, managing strategic customer relationships, providing technical solutions, and ensuring alignment between customer operational requirements and John Crane capabilities. •Develop and execute regional growth strategies with a defined short, medium, and long-term opportunity pipeline. •Maintain and expand strategic relationships with key industrial customers. •Identify and convert upgrade, retrofit, reliability, and aftermarket opportunities. •Drive growth of mechanical seals, Dry Gas Seals, filtration systems, couplings, support systems, and reliability services. •Maintain a high level of forecast accuracy through effective CRM and opportunity mana