Now Hiring - Hillenbrand - Auxiliary Product Specialist (Sales Project Engineer) in Batavia, OH

Full description of the position

The Auxiliary Product Specialist (Sales Project Engineer) role is responsible for supporting the sales of auxiliary equipment by working with Sales team and customers to price equipment, create proposals, and produce orders. This role requires selling strategies and an engineering level of understanding plastics processing auxiliary equipment as either a single piece unit function, or more importantly the role requires an understanding of how the different pieces of equipment are uniquely fit into the role of a customer's Unique plant system or single cell system.



Who we are:

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating ("MRO") supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.


Milacron is an operating company of Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand ([please apply online] is a global diversified industrial company with businesses that serve a wide variety of industries around the world. We pursue profitable growth and robust cash generation to drive increased value for our shareholders. Hillenbrand's portfolio includes industrial businesses such as Coperion, Milacron Injection Molding & Extrusion, and Mold-Masters, in addition to Batesville, a recognized leader in the death care industry in North America. Hillenbrand is publicly traded on the NYSE under "HI."



Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:



Application sizing of auxiliary equipment based upon customer's unique applications.

Able to understand and explain the offerings being recommended to customers.

Produce customer-based pricing strategies unique to the opportunity along with margin analysis review.

Create proposals and validate the information for each product and modifying the details on proposals specific to the application being proposed.

Order Entry in Milacron System - Verifying the correct order data is with the purchase order prior to entering the order, and verifying costs / selling prices align with the equipment ordered

Teamwork and Collaboration - sharing of information and creating opportunities to educate our sales team on the products offered by the Auxiliary Group.



Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A


Skills/Experience/Education:

Associates degree in business, engineering, or relative field, or 3-5 years' experience in plastics machine manufacturing environment, or combination of education and experience

Sales oriented & Customer Focused

Detail Oriented

Should be able to work in multiple projects (multi-task) in a specialty product environment.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to work in a cross functional work environment.

Excellent computer skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.).

Ability to communicate and coordinate within different levels of the organization

Understanding of plastics injection / blow molding process preferred

Robotics and Automation Experience preferred

Engineering experience preferred.

Travel: 5% of Role Requires Travel - Will require supplier training on-site at vendor locations and customer visits with sales team on request of customer or sales department.




Physical Demands:

To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.



While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to crouch. The employee may occasionally lift items as heavy as 10lbs. Specific vision abilities may include the employee's ability to see near and far distances.



DISCLAIMER: The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of any employee assigned to this job. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.



At Milacron / Hillenbrand we strive to build a diverse workforce through equal opportunity employment that embraces and leverages the differences everyone has to offer. Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer of minorities/females/disabled/veterans