Industrial Sales Engineer

As an Industrial Sales Engineer at Hilti, you will drive the adoption, integration, and long-term scaling of advanced technical solutions across manufacturing and production environments.

Operating at the intersection of engineering and commercial delivery, you will work directly within customer production environments to solve complex operational challenges, optimise workflows, and deliver measurable improvements in productivity, safety, and quality. This is a role defined by ownership, technical credibility, and execution—you will not just identify opportunities, but see them through to full implementation, adoption, and performance impact.

You will engage multi-level stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Quality, and leadership teams, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor while translating technical capability into tangible business outcomes. Success comes from your ability to combine hands-on technical expertise with commercial instinct and deliver real change on-site.

What You'll do

• Drive growth by identifying, shaping, and delivering high-value solution opportunities, owning outcomes while partnering closely with sales teams across industrial customers
• Assess customer production environments and workflows to uncover inefficiencies, constraints, and improvement opportunities
• Lead technical engagements with multi-level stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Production to define and position the right solutions
• Take full ownership of implementation, including on-site setup, testing, optimisation, and technical support to ensure solutions perform in real conditions
• Act as the technical interface between customer teams and Hilti’s internal functions, aligning engineering requirements with commercial delivery
• Embed solutions into customer operations, driving change management, system integration, and long-term adoption
• Enable the wider sales team, building their capability to identify and progress technical solution opportunities

What You’ll Bring

Desirable

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering (or related field)

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in Manufacturing or Production specifically with production lines, including related applications
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Willingness to travel nationally for customer visits and solution implementation
• Resilience and problem-solving mindset, overcoming challenges with a passion for continuous learning and long-term commitment
• Full, manual UK driving licence with no more than 6 points.

What’s In It for You

We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a competitive reward package that reflects this. Some of the benefits we offer include:

• A competitive base salary and bonus
• Company vehicle and a fuel/charging card.
• Extensive onboarding and training process and companywide events in Manchester.
• *6% employer pension contributions
• As standard 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays days' holiday. Aditionally you have the ability to purchase 5 days more annually
• Paid days off for great moments in life - your birthday, moving home, getting married alongside moments where you may need more support – fertility treatment, neonatal birth, home emergency day.
• Private healthcare, life insurance and wellbeing support.
• 6% pension contribution.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

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