Location: JBT Marel - Marcilla, Navarra
Employment Type: Full-Time, on location
Department: Diversified Food & Health
Lead the Future of Work at JBT Marel
Our Navarra site is a key hub for innovative food processing solutions, combining advanced equipment design with cutting-edge technologies. The location specializes in end-to-end solutions for fresh and frozen fruit and vegetable, and wet pet food applications, covering the full process from raw material intake and preparation to feeding, freezing, and packaging.
By integrating high-performance processing systems with gentle product handling and high throughput capabilities, the team enables customers to maintain product quality, optimize efficiency, and ensure food safety.
Serving a global customer base, the Navarra team plays a vital role in delivering scalable, efficient, and sustainable solutions that meet evolving consumer demands for safe, high-quality, and minimally processed foods.
The Pre-sales Engineer or Applications Engineer is a key position in the company. You’ll be one of the first contacts with the customer, playing a crucial role in bridging the gap between customer needs and the company's capabilities. This role involves transforming customer requests into tangible project deliverables, including design of layout, price calculations, and comprehensive quotations. The Applications Engineer ensures that all technical and commercial aspects are meticulously addressed to facilitate successful project execution. Also, you’ll take part in the negotiation of the project, the kickoff to the technical office and the follow-up of the project.
Your work is largely project-based pre‑sales / application engineering:
- Concept & layout design. Design layouts and solutions in AutoCAD based on the customer’s process and the available footprint
- Analyse customer requests and constraints (space, process, capacity). .
- Work with standard machines and configure/adapt them
- Technical & cost calculations: Break down solutions into machines, options and components, calculate machine and project costs using historical data, internal tables and engineering input. Translate costs into sales prices using price lists or margin targets.
- Quotations & customer interface (pre‑sales): Prepare technical and commercial quotations, and structure, describe and document the proposed solution clearly.
- Support the sales team with all technical aspects in customer discussions.
- Answer technical questions from customers and internal stakeholders before the order is placed.
You’ll work closely with sales, engineering and procurement to give the customer optimal service and support. Your scope is everything before the sale: from first concept to final quotation.
You are energized by working in a broad engineering scope, a kid of technical jack-of-all-trades who understands mechanical principles, machinery and has basic knowledge of automation and electrical concepts. Experience with layout thinking and process flow is highly recommended
We encourage each of our 12,000+ employees to bring their unique self to work and aim to make everyone feel recognized, valued and free to explore their potential. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and welcome new colleagues from all walks of life. You will recognize in yourself that you:
- Enjoy combining technical depth with financial insight. You enjoy calculations – both mechanical/technical and financial (costing, margins, pricing).
- Have an engineering degree (or equivalent technical background), for example: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Automation / Electrical Engineering
- Located in or near Navarra
- Hands-on experience with industrial machinery / production lines
- Enjoy working independently within a small expert team.
- Are comfortable moving between technical detail and business discussion.
- Experience with AutoCAD (or similar) for 2D layout design.
- Experience with 3D CAD tools such as SolidWorks (or similar) or strong affinity.
- Prepare quotations & support sales
- Can craft clear, well‑structured technical and commercial quotations.
- Experience in application engineering / technical sales
- Experience with project engineering or project design
- Food processing / food machinery
- Additional languages like French and/or Italian are especially valuable (many customers in those countries, sometimes with limited English).
- Experience or courses in data analytics / reporting tools like Power BI or advanced Excel.
- Willingness to travel occasionally.
We are the kind of people who find purpose in creating things. Our mission is to transform the future of food by creating a world where quality food is produced sustainably and affordably. Being the world leader in advanced food processing solutions, we’re in the unique position to make it happen–but we need individuals with diverse perspectives and skills to help us get the most out of this opportunity.
There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you do something worthwhile for a living. That said, coming home from work knowing you made a difference is just one of the great things you can experience at JBT Marel. You can expect:
- Freedom to take initiative and make a real impact in a growing global business
- An environment of trust and respect with space to explore and fail
- A collaborative, inclusive team culture with international cooperation
- Continuous learning through our advanced learning platform , with unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and Busuu language learning
- All the tools you need to succeed: laptop, iPhone, and a fully equipped home office
- An environment built on trust and respect, with room to explore, learn, and even fail
- To get a career instead of a job . We have many opportunities for internal growth; and we encourage it!
We’re excited to learn how you can contribute to our mission of smarter, safer food inspection. Apply now and join a team transforming the future of food processing.
Questions? Contact: Maarten Krepel – [email protected]
Learn more at: jbtmarel.com
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Connect with Talent Acquisition Specialist: www.linkedin.com/in/maartenkrepel
JBT Marel is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Join us — and be the driving force behind smarter, leaner food production.
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