Product Specialist

Valmet; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Company-funded pension

Job summary

Valmet is seeking a proactive engineer-seller to establish relationships with mill personnel and grow the doctoring market across the Midwest. You will travel frequently to consult, sell, and service doctoring parts and solutions, helping customers identify improvements in their production processes.

You will also perform mill services such as audits and inventories and quote prospective agreements while maintaining territory forecasts and call reports.

Qualifications

• Proactive and curious mindset with education/experience in mechanical engineering and/or paper sciences.
• Willingness to travel across the U.S. territory to support customers.

Responsibilities

• Establish professional relationships with mill personnel such as maintenance, reliability, purchasing, and production.
• Grow our market in doctoring and sell Valmet doctoring parts and solutions.
• Travel frequently to customer sites for consulting, selling and servicing Valmet doctoring solutions.
• Identify potential areas for improvement in customers' production processes related to the products.
• Perform mill services including audits, parts inventories, and evaluations at assigned accounts.
• Quote and secure orders for prospective agreements from existing and potential customers.
• Provide territory forecast/budget for assigned accounts and maintain call reports; monitor market and competition.
• Support customers throughout the Midwest region of the United States with frequent travel.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Paper Science or Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Responsibilities

• Establishes professional relationships with appropriate customer personnel such as Mill maintenance and reliability, purchasing, and production.
• You will be responsible for growing our market in doctoring.
• This role will require frequent customer visits involving consulting, selling and servicing Valmet doctoring parts and solutions.
• You will help the customer identify their potential areas of improvement as it relates to these products in their production processes.
• In this role, you will also roll your sleeves up and perform in mill services including paper machine audits, parts inventories, and other evaluations at assigned accounts.
• The successful candidate will secure opportunities to quote on prospective agreements and obtain orders from existing and potential customers.
• You will help provide a territory sales forecast/budget for assigned accounts, record call reports, and understand the market and competition.
• This position supports customers throughout the Midwest region of the United States and requires frequent travel within the territory.

Expectations

This opportunity could be right for you are a pro-active, curious minded individual, and have the right combination of education and experience in mechanical engineering and/or paper sciences disciplines. As you'll be working closely with our customers throughout the U.S. geographical area, you will spend a large portion of your time traveling. Bachelor's degree in Paper Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Technology, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

We Offer

We offer a challenging work environment that values innovation and suits development-minded people who enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic setting.

• Includes a generous wage and benefits package that includes a 401k with company match as well as company-funded pension.

Please note that any offer of employment is contingent upon a background check and pre-employment physical and drug screen.

Additional Information

Delivering competitive technologies and services is what we do best. At Valmet, we continue to push forward and develop ourselves, concentrating on technology, services, sustainability, local presence, and our people.

Where everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 20,000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.

Valmet is an equal opportunity employer

All employees and applicants for employment will not be discriminated on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit-based factors.

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