Pre-sales Engineer - EcoStruxure Automation Expert (EAE), Pacific Zone

This role will be responsible for driving best practices, innovation, and efficiency across all solutions and applications, ensuring alignment with the EAE commercial strategy and technology roadmaps.

This position will work closely with our sales teams to provide deep technical expertise to our customers and partners as well as advanced troubleshooting to support the successful implementation of EAE into customer solutions.

Reporting to the COE Lead, the role requires deep technical expertise, and a strong ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and business stakeholders. This role is responsible to support country sales teams win more business on EAE and support customers through their entire project development cycle using EAE.

This role will require someone who is comfortable travelling and presenting in front of clients and partners in order to support them in undertaking and adopting EAE. A vehicle will be provided for customer related travel.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide technical pre-sales expertise and support to the sales team on automation and control system architectures to help accelerate sales growth and increase opportunities conversation rate using EAE.
• Act as the technical subject matter expert at the customer to define and implement the best automation and control systems architecture using EAE.
• Work with the customer to identify technical requirements/ constraints to adopt EAE and offer the customer solutions that will support the adoption of EAE on their projects/machines.
• Explain and demonstrate the technical advantages and disadvantages of the proposed architecture using EAE.
• Create solutions architecture and demos and support the sales team to convince the customer to use EAE by highlighting the value and benefit to convention automation systems.

About you:

You will be an Industrial Automation technical expert with strong ability to build optimized solution architectures fitting the needs of customers (including channel partners such as Sis or POEMs) based on a broad technical knowledge.

You will have an in depth understanding of the Automation market - both hardware and software including communication networks and the ability to interconnect different generations of automation offers i.e. new technology into old or existing control systems.

You will be self-motivated and driven with a must-win mindset and a desire to be successful together with a proven record of being an early adopter who can leverage their technical intensity to drive sales growth

Your tertiary qualification in either Electrical/Electronic/Mechatronics Engineering, Computer Science IT programming or Code development and 5 years of experience in automation solution development and programming, will support your ability to apply code development and design system/solution architecture that will fit into industrial applications on the factory floor and plant to control equipment and processes.

While this is a highly technical role, you will also possess the commercial acumen to understand the significant role that technical teams play in the sales cycle to influence and win new business and customers

Key skills and experience:

• Demonstrated ability to apply code development and design system/solution architecture that will fit into industrial applications on the factory floor and plant to control equipment and processes
• Hands-on knowledge of industrial protocols (Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, etc.)
• Deep expertise in, PLC programming, SCADA/DCS, and industrial networking
• Extensive experience in designing and deploying large-scale automation solutions
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to simplify complex technical concepts for engineers, customers, and executives
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience engaging both technical and business audiences
• Embedded Software Engineer background, ideally with strong IT focus would be highly regarded.
  • Be well versed on IIOT and the convergence between IT and OT.
  • Object oriented Programming, Windows and Linux development environment, Docker/Kubernetes/Swarm, Virtualization, Event driven methodology, C# programming for HMI integration
  • Networking experience in LAN, WAN, VLAN, Managed Switch, Routers, Communication protocols TCP/IP based Modbus, EthernetIP, Profinet, HTTPS, MQTT.
  • Experience in the following programming language: C/C++, Python, JavaScript is advantageous.

All applicants must have working rights in Australia at the time of application and will be required to provide documented evidence if selected for Interview.

Schneider Electric does not accept unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles from external agencies or suppliers via any method. If any candidates are submitted in an unsolicited manner, we will consider this as a direct candidate application to Schneider Electric and no fee will be payable.

Benefits of working for Schneider Electric



The list is long but importantly we offer a competitive salary package, access to our employee share plan and salary continuance insurance. Additionally, we offer all our employees a chance to build your career within our global organization. With our game changing 'Open Talent Market' you have the opportunity to; work on global projects, explore future roles or establish a mentorship to grow your skills. The opportunities are at your fingertips.

• Flexibility at Work and Global Family Leave
• Option to participate in our Share Program, with discounts and company contribution for employees
• Potential opportunity to purchased further annual leave
• Discounts at major vendors such as Clipsal, JB-HiFi and Hoyts just to name a few through our employee rewards schemes
• Continuous training on Schneider products
• Exposure to a market leader in sustainability and automation
• Global support at your fingertips
• Working in a well-balanced team and inclusive environment

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