Inside Sales

Nox Metals; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nox Metals in Ferndale, MI is seeking an Inside Sales professional to turn RFQs into shipped orders, delivering fast, accurate quotes and tight specs, pushing orders into production, and keeping customers informed throughout the process.

You will own the inbox, read drawings, discuss alloys and tolerances, coordinate with quality, supply chain, and shipping, and partner with Outside Sales to keep the sales engine running.

Qualifications

• Experience in inside sales, quoting, estimating, or customer service in metals, machine shops, or industrial manufacturing.
• Technically fluent: able to read a drawing and talk alloys, tempers, tolerances, and lead times.
• Sharp with numbers and detail-oriented, comfortable living in spreadsheets, quoting tools, and AI tools all day.
• Organized enough to juggle dozens of open quotes without dropping one.
• Precise under pressure and customer-obsessed.
• A low-ego team player who takes ownership, works safely, and never says 'that\'s not my job'.

Responsibilities

• Own inbound RFQs end to end, estimate jobs in WAYNE, run nests, validate scrap, and turn drawings, specs, and POs into clean jobs in NOX NEST.
• Push orders into production with every detail right (alloy, temper, thickness, tolerances, certs, ship date, packaging).
• Work with scheduling to commit dates we can hit and hit the dates we commit to.
• Own the customer relationship inside the four walls: quotes, follow-ups, confirmations, status updates.
• Catch issues before they become problems, including missing specs, mismatched POs, and conflicting cert requirements.
• Coordinate with quality, supply chain, and shipping on every order from open to delivered.
• Work hand in hand with Outside Sales as the engine that lets them keep selling.
• Log every quote and outcome in the CRM.
• Ask questions instead of guessing, and always look for a better way to do the work.

Skills

Inside sales

Quoting

Estimating

CRM use

Reading drawings

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Team player

Tools

CRM

Job description

Inside Sales | Nox Metals | Ferndale, MI

Nox Metals is a Detroit-based technology company supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers, using software and automation to move metal faster than the industry thought possible.

We need an Inside Sales hire to turn RFQs into shipped orders: fast, accurate quotes, specs locked in tight, orders pushed cleanly into production, and customers kept in the loop the whole way. You'll own the inbox, the front door of the company.

You will:

• Own inbound RFQs and quoting end to end, estimate jobs in WAYNE, run nests, validate scrap, and turn drawings, specs, and POs into clean jobs in NOX NEST

• Push orders into production with every detail right (alloy, temper, thickness, tolerances, certs, ship date, packaging)

• Work with scheduling to commit dates we can hit and hit the dates we commit to

• Own the customer relationship inside the four walls: quotes, follow-ups, confirmations, status updates

• Catch issues before they become problems, including missing specs, mismatched POs, and conflicting cert requirements

• Coordinate with quality, supply chain, and shipping on every order from open to delivered

• Work hand in hand with Outside Sales as the engine that lets them keep selling

• Log every quote and outcome in the CRM

• Ask questions instead of guessing, and always look for a better way to do the work

You should be:

• Experienced in inside sales, quoting, estimating, or customer service in metals, machine shops, or industrial manufacturing

• Technically fluent: able to read a drawing and talk alloys, tempers, tolerances, and lead times

• Sharp with numbers and detail-oriented, comfortable living in spreadsheets, quoting tools, and AI tools all day

• Organized enough to juggle dozens of open quotes without dropping one

• Precise under pressure and customer-obsessed

• A low-ego team player who takes ownership, works safely, and never says "that's not my job"

Nice to have:

• Metals or aerospace quoting background

• WAYNE-style nesting tools experience

• GD&T reading ability

• AS9100, DFARS, AMS, or ASTM experience

• Forklift or crane certification

Full time, in person in Ferndale.