SunSource

LA - Application Engineer - Inside Sales Technical Support - Fluid Process Industrial Supply

SunSource  •  Baton Rouge, LA (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

Ford-Gelatt, a SunSource company, supplies industrial process equipment to the process industries with a focus on adding value. Our team at Ford-Gelatt is technically sound and highly experienced with industry leading brands.  We provide technical added-value in equipment sales in Louisiana, Mississippi, and SE Texas. www.ford-gelatt.com
The position will be responsible for sales and customer support of fluid process equipment and services. In this position you will specifically prepare proposals and quotes of pumps and mixers to provide technical solutions for customers. This is to be accomplished by working as a team with the outside sales Account Managers and inside support staff. A key objective is to maximize the company's profit margins while maintaining a positive relationship with our customers and suppliers. this is an onsite position based in our Baton Rouge, LA office.

Essential Functions

  • Learn the products that we represent, their appropriate applications, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as our competitor's capabilities
  • Prepare proposals and quotes of pumps and mixers to provide technical solutions for customers
  • Learn each supplier's sizing and selection program and procedure
  • Develop quotations for our customers for our equipment and maintain internal files
  • Enter orders in our order handling system after review of customer order to confirm consistency with our proposal
  • Develop working relationships with our suppliers and factory personnel
  • Develop relationships with our customers so that they think of our Company first for their rotating equipment needs
  • Work with our customers to resolve any warranty issues should they occur
  • Work w/ other inside sales staff to increase productivity and efficiency

Experience, Education and Skills

  • Mechanical degree preferred but not required; equivalent combination work experience, training and/or technical education will be considered.
  • Some inside sales or technical support experience is a plus.
  • Fluid process manufacturing or distribution environment is a plus.
Ford-Gelatt is a fast-paced, technically focused distribution company ahead of our competition.
We value our Associates' contributions and success in meeting and exceeding our customer's expectations.
If you are a self-motivated individual and effective in achieving customer service success through your professional accomplishments, then we want to hear from you!
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About SunSource

At SunSource, we don’t just sell products — we deliver solutions.

We don’t just offer service — we offer partnership.

And we don’t just power machines — we keep North American industry running.

Join forces with us and unlock a breadth and scale of opportunities you won’t find anywhere else.

With over 250 locations and 3,500+ employees, SunSource is the leading value-added industrial distributor and solutions provider for North America’s industrial and high-tech operators. Our customers rely on us for our vast portfolio of mission-critical components, our unrivaled industry expertise and technical capabilities, our expansive network with long-standing partnerships, and our commitment to driving technological innovation.

SunSource and our affiliate brands include Amazon Hose & Rubber, Applied Controls, Callahan Weber Hydraulics, Carotek, Denver Industrial Pumps, D/J Industrial, Electro-Matic, Energy Hydraulics, Ford-Gelatt, Fluid Process Equipment, GHX Industrial, K+S Services, Lubrication Equipment & Supply, Master Pumps & Power, McCarty Equipment, Mission Controls, Paragon Technologies, Perfection Servo, Precision Zone Industrial Electronics, Process Solutions Integration, Price Engineering, P.S.I. Fluid Power, Ryan Herco Flow Solutions, Stuart Hose & Pipe, The Hope Group, United Central, Western Hydrostatics, and Western Integrated Technologies.

Do work you can be proud of, with a team adding true value for our customers, our industry, and our world as a whole. We’re stronger together.

We may be many brands, but at our core we’re one company, one culture and one powerful operating system that keeps North American industry running.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Addison, IL
Year Founded
Unknown
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