Sales Engineer (Minerals & Mining)

Location: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia

Company

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, provides mission-critical flow control solutions, including mechanical seals, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies for energy and process industries.

What you will do

• Develop and implement sales plans for the mining and minerals market in line with regional and global objectives.
• Identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities across Kalgoorlie and the Central Goldfields region.
• Expand existing customer accounts, grow market share, and achieve sales, profitability, and market growth targets.
• Build relationships with mine operators, consultants, EPCM firms, procurement teams, and senior decision-makers.
• Provide technical and consultative support, collaborating with sales, engineering, service, product, and application teams.
• Manage strategic account plans, sales pipelines, forecasting, market analysis, and performance reporting.

Requirements

• Proven sales and business development experience in the mining and minerals industry.
• Experience servicing gold, nickel, lithium, rare earths, or mineral processing operations.
• Strong technical sales background with consultative solution-selling experience.
• Established network and knowledge of the Kalgoorlie, Goldfields, and broader Western Australian mining market.
• Experience with sales pipelines, forecasting, CRM systems, strategic account planning, and business reporting.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills; an engineering, metallurgy, mining, or process engineering qualification is highly desirable.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment.
• Employee resource groups support inclusion across veterans, Pride, Black employees, women, and neurodiverse colleagues.
• Recognition is provided through the annual Smiths Excellence Awards and Smiths Day celebration.
• Competitive compensation and benefits are offered.