Full-Time

Sales Manager

Desalination, USA

Posted on 10/31/2025

Energy Recovery

Energy Recovery

201-500 employees

Energy recovery technologies for industrial fluids

Compensation Overview

$120k - $130k/yr

Remote in USA

Hybrid

Remote in the U.S.; travel 30-50%.

Category
Sales & Account Management (3)
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Required Skills
Market Research
Sales
Lead Generation
Requirements
  • A Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering is required along with a strong technical background
  • 5-10 years of experience of sales & business development in target market(s) is preferred
  • Experience working in Water Treatment Market
  • Fluency in spoken and written English
  • Availability to travel 30-50% of the time
  • Ability to develop business plans and other commercial documents
  • Ability to effectively utilize resources to solve issues and create solutions to customer and partner needs and problems
  • Ability to project a strong leadership image and foster a cooperative working relationship with other departments and colleagues
  • Skilled at customer relationship management, business planning, teamwork and execution. Superior oral & written communications and interpersonal/relationship skills
  • Ability to conduct well-organized training sessions and convey technical information clearly at all levels
Responsibilities
  • Adheres to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes
  • Meet or exceed assigned quota by creating and executing a territory sales plan, ensuring that sales pipeline remains full with qualified leads and prospects
  • Assist in developing markets, customers, distribution channels and identify pain points for Make regular visits to prospects/customers/partners/consultants/relevant tradeshows on each of the assigned countries to develop positive working relationships, build pipeline with qualified leads, grow revenues from new and existing accounts, and to educate customers industry
  • Preparation of proposals, presentations, revenue goal settings, as well as sales training
  • Monitor market conditions & trends, and competition benchmark (pricing, technologies)
  • Work effectively with internal support departments (Marketing, Accounting, Legal) wherever and whenever needed
  • Perform market research to identify PAM, TAM, SAM, SOM and new opportunities
  • Develop business plans, sales processes, and strategies for assigned markets that ensures attainment of company sales goals and profitability
  • Evaluate market trends, competition benchmark and provide appropriate support to product & business development
  • Control Travel & Entertainment expenses to meet budget guidelines
  • Gather customers’ feedback and report out
  • Work with end users & engineering companies to specify ERII's products
  • Identify, organize, and execute relevant conferences, seminars and events
  • To report to Senior Management on sales metrics, opportunities and threads
  • Ensure accurate and complete information is captured in Customer Relationship Management system (CRM)
  • All other projects and duties as assigned
Desired Qualifications
  • 5-10 years of experience in sales & business development in target markets is preferred
  • Experience working in Water Treatment Market is preferred

Energy Recovery designs and sells energy-recovery technologies for industrial fluid systems. Its products, including the PX Pressure Exchanger, Ultra PX, IsoBoost, and VorTeq, capture and reuse energy from high-pressure fluid streams to lower overall energy use and operating costs. The company serves multiple sectors such as desalination, industrial wastewater treatment, hydraulic fracturing, sour gas processing, and CO2 refrigeration, and it also offers licensing and long-term service agreements. What sets the company apart is its long history of deploying pressure-exchange technology and its portfolio of proprietary solutions that span different industries, not just desalination. The goal is to help customers reduce energy costs and environmental impact while delivering reliable, scalable energy-recovery solutions through direct sales, licensing, and services.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Leandro, California

Founded

1992

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What believers are saying

  • $15M SWRO contracts in India ship in 2024 for 670,000 m³/day capacity.
  • $28M PX Q400 deals in Gulf produce 1.5M m³/day municipal water.
  • New VP Wastewater and CTO target expanding municipal treatment markets.

What critics are saying

  • Flowserve's CALDER DWEER erodes SWRO share in Saudi Shuaibah 3 plant.
  • Grundfos centrifugal ERDs win 2025 Gujarat 200,000 m³/d contract.
  • China's ALLIED Power clones displace Energy Recovery from UAE Taweelah.

What makes Energy Recovery unique

  • PX Pressure Exchanger achieves 98% efficiency in SWRO desalination worldwide.
  • PX Q650 and Q400 deliver highest capacity for mega desalination plants.
  • U Series expands to U20, U80, U250 for UHPRO wastewater applications.

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Benefits

Medical, dental, & vision

Disability & life insurance

401(k)

EAP

Pet insurance

FSA

Tuition assistance

PTO

Company events

Company News

DMW Corporation
Dec 15th, 2025
Energy Recovery Devices for water treatment facilities "DeROs-E(R)" receives Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award at the Energy Conservation Grand Prize

Energy Recovery Devices for water treatment facilities "deros-e(r)" receives Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award at the Energy Conservation grand prize. Its Energy Recovery Devices(ERD) for water treatment facilities, " DeROs- [E(R),] " has won the top award, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award, in the Electricity Demand Optimization category of the Products and Business Models category of the 2025 (Reiwa 7) Energy Conservation Awards (sponsored by the Energy Conservation Center, Japan). The award ceremony is scheduled to be held at Tokyo Big Sight on Wednesday, January 28, 2026. The Energy Conservation Award is a system that recognizes outstanding energy conservation efforts and advanced, highly efficient energy-saving products in Japan's industrial, business and transportation sectors. The award-winning " DeROs- [E(R)" is an energy-saving device that can reduce the equipment's power consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by highly efficiently recovering and reusing the pressure energy of wastewater generated during the water treatment process in water treatment facilities such as those used to produce ultrapure water and for wastewater and sewage treatment. A challenge with conventional ERDs for seawater desalination is that energy recovery from wastewater discharged from low-pressure reverse osmosis (RO) membranes is uneconomical. " DeROs- [E(R)" was awarded this prize in recognition of its ability to recover energy highly efficiently even under low-pressure conditions of RO wastewater pressure of 0.2 to 4 MPa by optimizing the shape of the flow path. Based on its purpose of "Enriching Lives and Shaping a Better Future Through Water and Air," Dmw Corporation will continue to create solutions that help resolve Social Responsibility issues and contribute to the development of a sustainable Social Responsibility.

Pump Industry
Feb 27th, 2025
New CTO and VP of Wastewater appointed to Energy Recovery

Energy Recovery also promoted David Kim-Hak to Vice President, Wastewater, a new role created to capitalise on growth opportunities in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment.

H2O Global News
Dec 17th, 2024
Energy Recovery Wins "Breakthrough Innovation Award" at IDRA World Congress

At the 2024 IDRA World Congress show this week, Energy Recovery, Inc. was honored with The Breakthrough Innovation Award for Most Innovative Company in Desalination Technology.

Business Wire
Jul 31st, 2024
Energy Recovery Appoints Mike Mancini as Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Mancini joins Energy Recovery from Astranis Space Technologies Corp., a San Francisco-based next-gen satellite company, where he served as CFO for four years and was instrumental in bringing this revolutionary satellite technology to market.

Business Wire
May 9th, 2024
Energy Recovery Announces $15 Million In Swro Contracts In India

SAN LEANDRO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Recovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: ERII) today announced $15 million in contracts to supply its PX® Pressure Exchanger® energy recovery devices to seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants in India. All orders are expected to ship in 2024. All together, these plants will provide over 670,000 cubic meters of clean drinking water to communities in India each day. As one of the most water stressed countries in the world, India continues to invest in desalination projects in order to supplement its freshwater supply. The country is home to 18% of the world’s population but has only 4% of the world’s water resources

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