NZ Sales Engineer – Water Management & Industrial Food

Their solutions play a critical role in improving efficiency, product quality, yield optimisation, and sustainability across complex production environments. From advanced separation technologies through to heat transfer and fluid handling systems, their equipment is trusted in demanding environments where reliability, performance, and product integrity are essential.

With a strong and established presence across New Zealand, they continue to invest in growth and innovation, offering a complete spectrum of water and wastewater treatment equipment, along with a full range of solutions to support the industrial food processing industry.

The Opportunity:

Take ownership of a high-potential NZ territory, driving growth through a consultative, solution-led technical sales approach.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead sales across the Water, Wastewater, and Industrial Food sectors, working closely with customers to understand operational challenges and deliver tailored solutions that improve efficiency, reduce waste, create cost savings, and enhance overall performance.

With strong market demand and multiple projects already underway, this role is ideal for someone who can genuinely add value, build long-term partnerships, and continue to drive momentum across an active project pipeline.

Backed by a globally recognised brand, market-leading technologies, and a collaborative internal team, you will enjoy a high level of autonomy to grow and develop the New Zealand market.

The Role:

• Take ownership and drive revenue growth across Water, Wastewater, and Industrial Food sectors

• Build strong, long-term relationships with key customers, working with them on projects that are already underway.

• Identify and convert new and upcoming projects into profitable business opportunities

• Prepare and manage value-driven proposals, including tenders and commercial negotiations

• Manage a healthy sales pipeline, forecasting, and activity through CRM systems

• Deliver solution-based sales across technologies including decanter centrifuges, rotary drum thickeners, heat exchangers, and evaporation systems

• Collaborate with engineering and service support teams, leveraging their expertise as your eyes and ears in the field

• Stay ahead of market trends, customer needs, and emerging opportunities

 
About You:

• Proven experience in technical sales or sales engineering within water/ wastewater or industrial food processing environments

• Experience working with capital equipment, process technologies, or engineered solutions

• Strong relationship-building skills and a consultative, solution-based sales approach

• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to identify, develop and convert opportunities into revenue

• Ability to engage confidently with engineers, designers, plant managers, a wide range of stakeholders

• Self-motivated, proactive, highly driven, with a strong sense of ownership

• Comfortable managing a large territory, where the customers are already identified and projects underway.

• Ability to travel nationally and internationally.

The Rewards:

• Competitive base salary circa $120K, with flexibility for the right experience

• Car allowance plus 25% annual performance-based incentive

• 25 days annual leave

• Health insurance, plus Life and TPD insurance.

• A range of employee benefits, discounts, wellbeing programmes and activities.

• Work with world-leading technologies across critical industries

• High autonomy to shape strategy and drive performance

• Ongoing training and career development within a global organisation

This is an excellent opportunity to join a globally recognised organisation in a role that offers both technical challenge and commercial reward.

To apply, please submit your CV via the Apply button, or to [email protected]
Or contact Lisa Baggaley at Kings Recruitment Ltd. PH 09 600 5155/ 021656479.