Engineering Inside Sales - Fasteners & OEM Prints

MSC Industrial Direct Co.,Inc.; Maple Grove (MN); On-site; USD 57,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

MSC Industrial Supply Co. seeks an Engineering Inside Sales Tech to provide engineering print and documentation support to the sourcing and purchasing team. You will coordinate reverse engineering with customers, OEMs, and manufacturers, ensuring alignment between customer prints and supplier capabilities.

In this role you will work with OEM functional groups, review designs, and communicate differences. Requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5+ years in design/engineering, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five years of design or application engineering or technical experience with production fasteners and OEM items.
• Knowledge of fasteners and bolted joint design.
• Maintains a high level of confidentiality related to all duties and responsibilities, such as the proprietary information of vendors and customers.
• Strong ability to apply applications of engineering principles and practices to solve specific problems in a timely manner.
• Ability to document process flow and report improvements to the process or product.
• Understands process and product testing procedures including chemical, mechanical, and dimensional.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal required.
• Ability to deal professionally with customers, internal customers and suppliers in a polite, efficient, and responsive way required.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical users required.
• Self-motivate, committed and enthusiastic Engineering/Technical professional, must be able to work on own initiative and without constant supervision.

Responsibilities

• Review customer “part to print” to ensure what they physically have matches what they have specified on their engineering documentation and/or the samples provided.
• Reconciles differences and gets approval of markups and deviations in meeting with outside sales engineer and the customer.
• Engages with the OEM Sourcing team to review and coordinate the customer print against the supplier's capability to provide parts to specification.
• Reconciles with the supplier if requested by sourcing, the differences and deviations between the customer's design print, requirements and specifications and the manufacturing print and capabilities from the supplier.
• Assists the sourcing team to reconcile with customers and obtain approval on supplier's print.
• Reviews the customer's application against the design print, requirements and specifications.
• Reviews and request adjustment of the information from MIR, based on meetings and documented agreements with the customer, and according with the reconciled and approved documentation from customer and from supplier.
• Actively participates in part review meetings with sourcing, purchasing and QC.
• Works jointly with AIS quality department on print readying and print reviews.
• Fosters the MSC Culture in the department and throughout the company to ensure fulfillment of MSC's vision and unity of purpose.
• Participation in special projects and performs additional duties as required

Skills

Design engineering experience

Fasteners knowledge

Documentation

Engineering principles application

Communication skills

Self-motivated

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

Equivalent experience

Job description

MSC Industrial Supply Co. seeks an Engineering Inside Sales Tech to provide engineering print and documentation support to the sourcing and purchasing team. You will coordinate reverse engineering with customers, OEMs, and manufacturers, ensuring alignment between customer prints and supplier capabilities.

In this role you will work with OEM functional groups, review designs, and communicate differences. Requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5+ years in design/engineering, and