Technical Sales Engineer, Charcroft Electronics, UK wide

Jun 4

Job Title: Technical Sales Engineer
Location: UK-based / Remote with regular UK travel to Charcroft and customer sites
Contract: Full-time, Permanent

About Charcroft Electronics Ltd

CharcCharcroft Electronics Ltd is a UK-based, CECC/BS approved franchised distributor and manufacturer of high-reliability electronic components. Our product portfolio includes passive, interconnect, power, magnetic, optoelectronic, semiconductor and electromechanical components.

Certified to EN9120:2018 and ISO9001:2015, and accredited to IECQ-CECC and JOSCAR registered, we serve demanding sectors including aerospace, defence, space, rail, industrial, audio, and other harsh-environment markets.

With over 50 years of technical expertise, Charcroft combines deep product knowledge, in-house manufacturing capability, and personalised customer support.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Sales Engineer to support and develop customer relationships across the UK, whilst acting as a key technical resource for both customers and the wider Charcroft sales team.

This role focuses on supporting design-in activity, identifying and developing new opportunities, providing technical guidance on component selection and applications, and helping convert opportunities into long-term business through a consultative, solutions-led approach.

The successful candidate will work closely with internal sales, product specialists, in-house engineering and our franchised manufacturers, to support technically demanding applications and drive design-in opportunities across multiple sectors.

The position would suit someone with a strong technical electronic or electrical-engineering background, with experience in specifying electronic components, who is seeking a customer-facing technical support role; building relationships, finding opportunities and working closely with engineering teams and procurement functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical and commercial support to customers across the UK.
• Act as a technical resource for the internal and external sales teams.
• Support customer design activity, qualification projects, and design-in opportunities.
• Attend customer meetings, site visits, exhibitions, and supplier visits where required.
• Provide application-level guidance and support component selection activities.
• Identify and develop new business opportunities across existing and prospective accounts.
• Support key franchise growth initiatives and supplier development plans.
• Work closely with internal sales, product management, quality, engineering, and supplier contacts to coordinate customer support.
• Support supplier presentations, training sessions, and joint customer visits.
• Maintain accurate records of opportunities, activity, visit reports, and forecasts within company systems.
• Provide feedback on market trends, customer requirements, competitor activity, and emerging technologies.

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Proven experience in a technical sales, applications, field sales engineering, or product specialist role within the electronic components industry.
•Strong technical understanding of electronic and/or electromechanical components and their applications.
•Experience supporting customer design activity and technical opportunity development.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineering, procurement, and commercial stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness with the ability to identify valuable opportunities, support price negotiations, and opportunity conversion.
• Ability to work independently whilst also collaborating closely with wider teams.
• Full clean UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly across the UK.
• Experience supporting customers within aerospace, defence, space, rail, industrial, audio, or other high-reliability sectors.

Some demonstrable experience working with technologies aligned to Charcroft’s franchised manufacturers, this could include experience with:

Passive components
Capacitor technology: Ceramic, Electrolytic, MLCC, FILM, Tantalum
Resistors: Composite, FOIL, Thin-Film, Thick-Film, Wirewound
Magnetics
Inductors, Transformers, Ferrite Components
Power products
Encapsulated Power Supplies
Electromechanical products
Circuit Breakers, Contactors, Thermostats
EMC components
Common-mode chokes, X/Y Capacitors, Shielding, Filters
RF components
Dielectric/Coaxial Resonators, Tuning Elements, Ferrites
Sensors
Current-sense, Temperature/Pressure/Flow, Presence-Detection, Optical infra-red sensors
Semiconductors:
high-reliability Discrete devices, ICs, Oscillators.

Desirable:
• Educated to degree level in a related Electrical or Electronic subject
• Familiarity with qualification standards and approvals for Aero-Defence-Space
• Experience working with franchised manufacturers and supplier networks
• Understanding of defence, aerospace, or high-reliability supply chains
• Established relationships with major Aero-Defence-Space customers in the UK
• Experience of designing for high-reliability and harsh-environment applications

Why Join Charcroft?
• Join a respected privately-owned UK company with over 50 years of industry expertise.
• Play a key role supporting technically demanding customers and long-term programmes.
• Work with market-leading suppliers and blue-chip customers.
• Be part of a supportive and knowledgeable team with strong technical depth.
• Competitive salary, performance-related bonus, pension, and benefits.
• Flexible remote working with autonomy and variety across a national customer base.