Junior Sales Engineer - Refractories (North India)

Location : Surat or Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Experience Required : 1-3 Years

Industry: Refractories / Foundry / Steel

About the Role

We are seeking an ambitious and technically minded Junior Sales Engineer - Refractories to join our sales team, supporting customers across the Gujarat region. This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with experience in foundries, steel plants, or refractory products who is looking to develop a long-term career in technical sales.

The successful candidate will act as a trusted technical advisor to customers while driving sales growth and developing new business opportunities within foundries and induction furnace-based steel plants.

Key Responsibilities

- Promote and sell refractory products and solutions to Foundries and Mini Steel Plants.
- Develop and maintain strong customer relationships across the Gujarat market.
- Provide technical support to customers, including:

o Product selection o Repair recommendations o Installation supervision o Performance monitoring
- Identify new business opportunities and generate sustainable sales growth.
- Prepare and implement sales development plans for assigned territories.
- Collaborate closely with customers' technical, operations, refractory, and commercial teams.
- Support customers by recommending improvements in lining designs and proposing value-added products and services.
- Assist with troubleshooting and provide initial analysis of refractory performance issues.
- Prepare technical reports, quotations, presentations, and customer proposals.
- Conduct regular customer visits and travel extensively within the region as required.

Candidate Profile





Essential Requirements

- 1-3 years of experience in the refractory, foundry, or steel industry.
- Sound understanding of refractory products, properties, lining patterns, and selection criteria.
- Experience working with:

o Induction Furnaces o Steel Ladles o Launders o Continuous Casting Machines (CCM)
- Strong interest in developing a career in technical sales and business development.
- Ability to understand and investigate basic refractory performance and failure analysis issues.
- Good communication and relationship-building skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Willingness to travel frequently for customer visits and business development activities.

Preferred Skills

- Hands-on experience supervising refractory installation and maintenance projects.
- Experience interacting with foundry, steel production, refractory, and operational teams.
- Strong problem-solving and customer-focused approach.
- Ability to present technical solutions confidently to customers.

What We Offer

- Opportunity to develop a career in a growing technical sales environment.
- Exposure to leading foundry and steel manufacturing customers.
- Professional growth through technical and commercial training.
- Market-competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
- Dynamic and supportive work environment.

About the Company

- We are a family run company established over 70 years ago with a global presence with customers in over 40 countries. We have 300 employees based at 9 sites in the UK, US, Europe, China and India and supply a wide range of refractory and technical ceramic products.

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