Technical Solutions Leader

Barry-Wehmiller • Mediapolis, IA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Technical Solutions Leader leads and develops the Technical Solutions team and is accountable for its performance and results. This is a player-coach role, combining personal support for quotations and technical-commercial projects with direction and development of the team.

The role leads the quoting process, maintains the quoting system, and ensures proposals accurately reflect customer requirements, equipment scope, costs, pricing, and margins. It promotes commercial discipline and reviews completed project costs and margins to improve future quoting assumptions. The leader works across Sales, Application Engineering, Engineering, Operations, and Finance, supports customer communications, monitors awarded projects through completion, and ensures a complete technical and commercial handoff to downstream teams. The role also drives continuous improvement, standardization, and cross-training within the global Technical Solutions organization.

The position works in a plant/manufacturing environment involving industrial machinery and chemicals. The employee must correctly wear and use any Personal Protective Equipment required at the location.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 1–2 years of relevant experience; or a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, or a related field and 3–5 years of relevant experience; or an Associate degree and 5–7 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a team.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and ability to understand technical equipment and applications.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.
• Strong understanding of costing, pricing, margins, and basic manufacturing principles.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively with customers and cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience with CRM, ERP, quoting, and similar business systems.
• Ability to correctly wear and use Personal Protective Equipment required at the work location.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Technical Solutions team and be accountable for team performance and results.
• Serve as a player-coach, personally supporting quotations and technical-commercial projects while providing direction to the team.
• Lead the quoting process and ensure proposals accurately reflect customer requirements, equipment scope, costs, pricing, and margins.
• Maintain the quoting system to encourage consistent use of standard product configurations, costing, and pricing, and escalate non-standard requirements as appropriate.
• Drive commercial discipline by ensuring adherence to established pricing, margin, discount, and approval policies.
• Review completed project costs and margins to improve future costing, pricing, and quoting assumptions.
• Work cross-functionally with Sales, Application Engineering, Engineering, Operations, and Finance to resolve technical and commercial requirements.
• Support customer communication to define requirements, clarify proposals, and address project-related questions.
• Monitor awarded projects through completion and communicate status, changes, and concerns to customers and appropriate internal teams.
• Ensure an accurate and complete technical and commercial handoff of awarded projects to downstream functions.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and cross-training within the global Technical Solutions organization.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree