Sales Engineer Senior

                                                                           

 

Distech Controls’ success and reputation are fueled by our world-class team of employees. We look for qualified individuals who are striving to succeed and that wish to actively contribute to our continued growth. Distech Controls values its team members and offers them a modern, motivating work environment, and competitive salaries and benefits.

Distech Controls is a Canadian-based company located in Brossard, on the South Shore of Montreal (QC), with a European headquarter in Brignais (Lyon), France. We are proud to be part of the Acuity Brands’ family since 2015. Our mission is to connect people with intelligent building solutions for better health, better space, and better efficiencies through our forward-thinking technologies and services.

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL) and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.  
 
We are positioned at the intersection of sustainability and technology. Our businesses develop technology that helps save our customers energy and reduce their carbon emissions. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and location-aware applications. 

Job Summary

We are looking for a problem solver with an application engineering and or programming background in BAS controls to help support our network of System Integrators and End-User customers with adoption of the best technology our industry has to offer.

 

This position is Remote (work from home) and does require company-paid travel.   You will work directly with your System Integrators, End User Customers, and Regional Sales Managers to create and manage your own schedule of commitments. 

 

You will be joining a sales team that prides itself on an incredible, family-like culture. You’ll be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in our industry. If the idea of learning about controllers with embedded graphics and Docker container support, and then sharing that knowledge with our customers excites you, this role is perfect for you!

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

As a Sales Support Engineer you will be the product subject matter expert and dynamic thinker for our Sales Team engaging in various types of support activities including but not limited to:

• New Product Introductions
• Tech focused sessions/webinars/lunch n learns
• Supporting new customer onboardings
• Attending Industry trade shows
• Product feature demonstrations
• Providing supplemental product training
• Supporting projects that are adopting new technology for the first time                 

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Exceptional knowledge and understanding of the Tridium Niagara Framework.  EC-Net (The Distech Brand of Tridium Niagara) is a cornerstone of a Distech Controls solution.  You should be confident in your ability to take a station from scratch with no templates to a complete automation system.
• A solid fundamental understanding of HVAC systems
• Ability to think logically and write programs for HVAC control
• Have a talent for simplifying complex topics and explaining them in easy-to-understand terms
• Fundamental understanding of protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, Lonworks
• Fundamental understanding of MSTP and IP networking

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with IoT integrations and API’s
• Ability to write code in computer programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
• Your personal hobbies inclu