Technical Sales Engineer

Are you ready for a rewarding and challenging career in the steelmaking industryã

Bring your metallurgical know how to a role where your insight truly shapes the future. As a Technical Sales Engineer youll partner with customers to understand their challenges recommend the best products and provide solutions that make a measurable difference.

About the Position:

The Technical Sales Engineer is a key driver of growth and innovation within our steel melting this role youll combine your technical expertise with hands on industry insight to help customers across a wide range of industries solve complex operational challenges. Youll work closely with production and engineering teams to understand customer issues develop tailored solutions and prepare compelling technical proposals that showcase our capabilities.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys solving intricate operational problems building strong customer relationships and supporting the full lifecycle of equipmentfrom new system sales to aftermarket services including maintenance planning component refurbishment and on site field support. If youre motivated by technical challenge customer impact and the energy of a heavy industrial environment this role puts you at the center of it.

About Ellwood Quality Steels:

• Family-owned business with long-range vision.
• The world leader in the production of high quality carbon alloy stainless and tool steel ingot.
• Unmatched commitment to our customers.
• Emphasis on flexibility responsiveness and problem solving.
• Continual investment in our people process and equipment.
• Highly trained workforce state-of-the-art equipment and methodology.
• A manufacturing environment where excellence is an everyday occurrence.

Our focus at Ellwood Quality Steels is to create anãenvironment of opportunityãwhere you canãgrow your career.ãOur culture values diverse talents and theãcontributions of all employees. Our commitment includesãcompetitive compensation support for yourãprofessional growth and a range ofãemployee benefitsãthat help to protect the health and welfare of our people.

What Youll Get:

• Competitive compensation with eligibility for Profit Sharing
• 401(k) retirement plan with an excellent Employer Match
• Excellent health care dental and vision plans
• Company-paid Life AD&D and disability benefits

What Youll Do:

• Reviews inquiries establishes pricing and develops steel ingot or billet process plan
• Responsible for managing the sales for EQS and ENS and supporting the sales of other Ellwood business units as applicable and necessary.
• Maintains an up-to-date understanding of applicable steelmaking and downstream processes.
• Responsible for making credit decisions in conjunction with Finance on customers.
• Travel is required (local national and international) typically 25-30% of the time to customers for sales calls or in response to technical service inquiries as needed.
• Assists sales staff in technical inquiries order planning scheduling and product disposition.
• Coordinates and oversees customer orders and deliveries.
• Responsible for tracking profitability of products and orders as well as managing customer WIP and stock inventory levels.
• Identify suggest and implement improvement opportunities in the sales and customer service processes for EQS and ENS.
• Offers technical and operational expertise to customers.
• Responsible for coordinating the investigation to conclusion and resolution of customer claims in conjunction with Metallurgy.

What Youll Need:ã

• Bachelor Degree required or a commensurate level of experience; Metallurgy or Material Science Degree is preferred.

• Three (3) to five (5) years experience in sales/marketing function in steel producing market preferred.

• Commitment to safety
• Ability and willingness to travel when necessary
• Valid drivers license
• Strong problem solving/analytical skills
• Must be able to work with types of people
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Strong work ethic
• Willingness to learn

EQS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity

Required Experience:

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