Application & Pre-Sales Engineer - Industrial Machinery

Job Description

Are you an engineer who enjoys working with industrial equipment, solving technical problems, and interacting directly with customers?

As a Pre-Sales Engineer at TOMRA Food, you'll combine engineering, customer interaction, and hands-on technical work to help food producers find the right solution for their processing needs.

Working closely with our Sales and Service teams, you'll analyze customer processes, support product demonstrations and field trials, evaluate equipment performance, and help define the right technical configuration for each application.

You'll act as a trusted technical partner throughout the sales process, translating customer challenges into practical, reliable, and commercially viable solutions.

What you'll do:

• Work alongside Sales and customers to understand their production processes, technical challenges, and requirements, and help identify the right technical solution.
• Analyze customer processes, production requirements, equipment performance, and operational data.
• Support and conduct product demonstrations, customer trials, field tests, testing, and performance validation.
• Define equipment configurations and contribute to technical specifications, system layouts, quotations, and supporting documentation.
• Design and evaluate processing solutions, including the integration of TOMRA and third-party equipment where required.
• Use technical and operational data to identify opportunities to improve equipment performance, utilization, and customer processes.
• Present technical solutions clearly through customer meetings, presentations, workshops, webinars, and reference visits.
• Work closely with Sales, Service, Engineering, and other teams to ensure proposed solutions are technically sound and aligned with customer requirements.
• Support the technical handover of awarded projects to implementation teams.
• Share application knowledge, technical expertise, and best practices across TOMRA Food.

Health, safety, and care for the environment come first. You are empowered to stop work if something feels unsafe, and we expect everyone to speak up so we can prevent harm and reduce our environmental impact.

Qualifications

What you'll bring:

We're primarily looking for someone with a strong technical foundation, hands-on problem-solving ability, and confidence working directly with customers.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• A degree in Engineering, Technology, Automation, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
• Experience working with industrial machinery, automation, processing equipment, material handling, or other equipment-based technical environments.
• Experience interacting directly with customers in a technical capacity, whether through service, applications, sales, engineering, technical support, or a similar role.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand a technical challenge and recommend an appropriate solution.
• Confidence communicating technical information and explaining solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret operational data and equipment performance information.
• Professional working proficiency in Spanish and English.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 30% across the EMEA region to work directly with customers and support demonstrations, field trials, and application projects.
• A valid driving license without restrictions.

Nice to have:

Experience in any of the following would be an advantage:

• Food processing or Agri-Tech.
• Field Service or Application Engineering.
• Technical Sales or Pre-Sales.
• Industrial automation or machinery.
• Equipment demonstrations, customer trials, commissioning, or performance testing.
• Preparing technical specifications, documentation, and customer presentations.
• System layouts, process design, or equipment integration.
• AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, or similar CAD/design tools.

If you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. At TOMRA, we recognize that diverse perspectives drive innovation and success. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Additional Information

What we offer:

• Up to 10% Annual Bonus – Performance-based STI linked to your contribution and company goals.
• Flexible Hybrid Working – A hybrid work model supporting flexibility and work-life balance.
• 29 Calendar Days of Holiday – In accordance with our CBA.
• International Exposure – Work with customers and colleagues across the EMEA region and gain exposure to different applications, industries, and technical challenges.
• Continuous Technical Learning & Development – Build your product, application, and technical expertise through TOMRA's learning and development opportunities.
• 100% Company-Paid Extended Life Insurance – Coverage in case of death and permanent disability.
• Private Health Insurance – Access at a discounted rate.
• All Business Travel Covered – Travel expenses and full travel insurance paid by TOMRA.
• Professional Equipment – Laptop, mobile phone, PPE, and professional workwear provided.
• Long-Term Recognition – Jubilee recognition every five years.
• Team Activities – Regular social activities and events with colleagues.

TOMRA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic. Reasonable accommodations will be made and will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Compensation: 34500 to N/A (EUR) (YEARLY)