Welding Sales Specialist

RWelding Sales Specialist (Open)

Location:

Reading PA Retail shopBensalem PA Retail shop Carlisle PA Garrison Retail shop Harrisburg PA (Plant) Filling industrial Hatfield PA Retail shop Hazle Township PA Retail shop King of Prussia PA Retail shop Philadelphia PA (Store) Retail shop Williamsport PA Retail shop

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW

The Welding Sales Specialist is a technical sales position responsible for developing Airgas specific selling expertise of Welding processes and applications. This position works closely with an Advanced Fabrication Welding Sales Specialist gaining experience utilizing the Airgas Advanced Fabrication Sales Methodology which includes the Airgas Efficiency Analysis & Engineered Cost Reductions. The Welding Sales Specialist interacts with a broad spectrum of Airgas associates external vendors and suppliers as well as existing and prospective customers.

• Responsible for growing profitable sales of Welding Processes and Welding Applications to both new and existing small to midsize Airgas customers.

• Works to develop indepth technical knowledge to become proficient at matching customer needs with the appropriate Airgas products and services to address customer inquiries and to provide customer service.

• Develops an understanding and ability to utilize the Airgas sales tools (Efficiency Analysis Welding surveys Welding 201 to promote sales and margin profitability.

• Travels to customer sites with the Advanced Fabrication Welding Process Specialist to gain an understanding of the customers current welding processes and help in determination of what Airgas welding solutions would further benefit the customer.

• Provides to customers sales knowledge and marketing literature to promote the Airgas Shielding Gases welding products and services.

• Upgrades selling skills and technical/product knowledge becoming wellversed in flexible and fixed automation applications and CNC cutting systems.

• Operates in a safe manner at all times and is a proactive advocate of safety promoting safety by example and aggressively promoting safety with other associates and customers.

• Special projects and other duties as required

Are you a MATCH

• Associates Degree in Welding (AAS) highly preferred. In lieu of Associates degree may accept Military Welding training Bachelors degree in Engineering or additional years of formalized welding training/ experience as a tradeoff.

• Requires successfully passing the Certified Welding Sales Representative (CWSR) exam sponsored by the American Welding Society (AWS) once hired to formally and successfully enter the Airgas Welding training program.

• Membership within the American Welding Society (AWS) American Society for Materials (ASM) American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) American Society for Quality (ASQ) American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and/or Society for Mechanical Engineering (SME) highly desirable.

• Prior sales experience required; prior technical sales experience preferred.

• 4 years of prior welding industry experience.

• Demonstrates both a strong interest and basic knowledge and understanding of welding processes and applications.

• Demonstrated relationship management & consultative aptitude with the ability to problemsolve and devise technical solutions for the customer.

• Ability to build effective relationships with all levels and roles both within Airgas and outside the organization.

• Knowledge of the principles of TQM Lean and/or Six Sigma.

We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans vacation sick time floating holidays and paid holidays for fulltime employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds tuition reimbursement discounted college tuition for employees dependents and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their race gender sexual orientation religion disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic.

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Airgas an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process please contact us by email at .

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