Sr Sales Engineer MTI

Sr Sales Engineer for Tooling - Machine Tool Industry

Location: Greater Chicago area (Northwest Chicago or near Schaumburg, Illinois)

Job Summary: Kennametal is seeking a Sr. Sales Engineer to support our partnerships with Machine Tool Builders to grow our metal cutting business in the Northcentral United States including focus in Chicago IL, Wisconsin and Minnesota. This technical sales role provides the ability to see opportunity in challenges and creates solutions that provide a positive impact for our machine tool customers.

The candidate will need to possess the ability to gain the trust and respect of customers by not only establishing the relationship, but by listening to their challenges, solving technical issues, and following through on commitments in a timely manner. This is a field sales role that is based in a home‑office with required travel approximately 25‑50%.

• Establish relationships with new and existing Kennametal machine tool customers to provide solutions
• Manage and coordinate the execution of large customer projects with engineering and operations to exceed customer expectations
• Meet sales revenue goals of growth and profitability
• Promote and implement both custom and standard Kennametal Metal Cutting solutions
• Advocate for Kennametal to the customer, advocate for the customer to Kennametal
• Collaborate across multiple business segments
• Grow focus products through initiative activities
• Develop and maintain customer associated data to provide consultative partnership (CRM)
• Execute growth initiative projects
• Travel approximately 25%‑50%

• 6+ years’ experience in machining/metal cutting industry
• Technical training in machining and programming
• Associate or Bachelor in Engineering or related field or equivalent level of industry experience
• Strong technical understanding of metal cutting tooling
• Practical experience interpreting technical drawings and specifications
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Working cross‑functionally with customers, engineering, and manufacturing locations

Salary Range: $90,000 - $115,000 annually base salary plus bonus with target of 30% of base salary.

• 401(k) with match up to 6%
• Company Vehicle to facilitate travel requirements

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Company overview:
With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear‑resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,700 employees are helping customers in nearly 100 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $2.1 billion in revenues in fiscal 2023.

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