Pre-sales Engineer - EcoStruxure Automation Expert (EAE), Pacific Zone

Schneider Electric is a global specialist in energy management and automation.

We are dedicated to supplying our customers with safe, reliable, and sustainable energy solutions.

We invent technologies that will transform the places where we live, work and play.

Our technologies ensure that Life Is On everywhere, for everyone at every moment.

Our Mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency.

About the position:

This is an opportunity for a highly skilled and passionate technical Pre-sales Engineer to join our Centre of Excellence (COE) in our Pacific Zone (including locations in Brisbane, Sydney, Perth AUS and Auckland NZ) and play a key role in driving enablement, and adoption of EcoStruxure Automation Expert (EAE).

This role will be responsible for driving best practices, innovation, and efficiency across all solutions and applications, ensuring alignment with the EAE commercial strategy and technology roadmaps.

This position will work closely with our sales teams to provide deep technical expertise to our customers and partners as well as advanced troubleshooting to support the successful implementation of EAE into customer solutions.

Reporting to the COE Lead, the role requires deep technical expertise, and a strong ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and business stakeholders.

This role is responsible to support country sales teams win more business on EAE and support customers through their entire project development cycle using EAE.

This role will require someone who is comfortable travelling and presenting in front of clients and partners in order to support them in undertaking and adopting EAE.

A vehicle will be provided for customer related travel.

Key responsibilities:


* Provide technical pre-sales expertise and support to the sales team on automation and control system architectures to help accelerate sales growth and increase opportunities conversation rate using EAE.


* Act as the technical subject matter expert at the customer to define and implement the best automation and control systems architecture using EAE.


* Work with the customer to identify technical requirements/ constraints to adopt EAE and offer the customer solutions that will support the adoption of EAE on their projects/machines.


* Explain and demonstrate the technical advantages and disadvantages of the proposed architecture using EAE.


* Create solutions architecture and demos and support the sales team to convince the customer to use EAE by highlighting the value and benefit to convention automation systems.

About you:

You will be an Industrial Automation technical expert with strong ability to build optimized solution architectures fitting the needs of customers (including channel partners such as Sis or POEMs) based on a broad technical knowledge.

You will have an in depth understanding of the Automation market - both hardware and software including communication networks and the...