Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Other duties may be assigned.

• Receives customer inquiries by telephone, e-mail, electronically or fax.
• Assists customers in product selection by providing technical product expertise.
• Prepares accurate price quotes for customers, including estimates of related shipping charges.
• Estimates date of delivery to customers, based on knowledge of PTI’s production and delivery schedules.
• Accepts customer purchase orders and creates corresponding sales orders in PTI’s computer system.
• Provides ongoing service to customers.
• Ability to discuss product, using literature, catalogs, and website to articulate solutions of features and benefits about product to customer. Mechanical background and/or mechanical aptitude are requirements of the role. Testing may be used to determine results.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

One year certificate from college or technical school and one to three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Computer Literacy

Ability to learn/use ERP system of PTI. Open, manipulate and save programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to communicate effectively internally and with external customers and plant partners.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and articulate solutions to internal associates and external customers.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; sit; and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, operate computers, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to walk, reach with hands and arms, and climb or balance.

The employee must have ability to lift upwards of 50lbs in weight.

Summary

As part of a rapidly growing company, the inside sales representative will sell mechanical power transmission products and bearings to MRO and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

There will be a 3-6-month training period of shadowing, learning and hands on exposure to multiple departments of the organization, including but not limited to: Receiving, Quality, Rework, Pack/Pull/Ship, Engineering.