Sales Engineer Formwork & Falsework

Job Title:

Sales Engineer Formwork & Falsework

Industry Sector:
Construction, Formwork & Falsework, Shoring, Groundwork, Temporary Works Construction Hire, Trenching, Piling, Propping, Civil Engineering, Specialist Formwork & Falsework Sub-Contractors and Main Contractors

Area to be covered:
Anglia and Northern Home Counties

Postcodes: PE, , IP, CB, CO, SG, LU, AL & CM

Remuneration: £45,000-£50,000 + 1% commission

Benefits:
Hybrid Car (or allowance of £500 per month) + full benefits package

The role of the Formwork & Falsework Sales Engineer will involve a technical field sales position, selling the hire (80%) and sale (20%) of formwork and falsework equipment.

Key responsibilities:

• 70% proactively stimulating demand for equipment through end users and tier One and tier Two contractors.
• 30% reactively dealing with well‑established relationships within formwork and falsework sub‑contractors.
• Responsible for an area with a turnover of circa £1m, currently performing below budget expectations.
• Follow up on Barbour ABI leads and own industry contacts.
• Spend a large proportion of time on construction sites and visiting head offices.
• Engage in projects typically £8,000–£25,000, with larger projects up to £70,000–£80,000.
• Utilise a team of qualified engineers for technical support.
• Visit construction sites (approximately 4.5 days a week) and conduct 4–5 customer visits per day.

The ideal applicant will be a Formwork & Falsework Sales Engineer with the following background:

• Open to most civils or plant/tools hire backgrounds.
• Technical brain.
• Ideally experience in hiring equipment to construction sites.
• Formwork or falsework technical field sales experience is ideal but not essential.
• Construction site experience, or an engineer working in a design office, or a tool hire professional looking for a field sales role.
• Strong new‑business skills.
• Energetic, driven, passionate, and enthusiastic.
• Open to hire or sales industry field sales experience.
• Companies of interest include GAP, Dewalt, Wurth, Speedy Hire, Hilti, Sunbelt or structural steel businesses or formwork consumables.
• Mix of construction and engineering background preferred.

• Est. 50 Years+
• Multiple depots nationwide
• 100+ employees
• Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Field Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Field Sales Jobs, Construction field sales vacancies and Specification field sales positions within Civil Engineering, Groundwork, Concrete, Formwork, Falsework, forming, shoring, Infrastructure, construction hire, plant hire, walls, trenching, piling, access, propping, columns and temporary works.