Technical Sales Representative - Nuclear Power Industries

Ecolab; Alton (IL); Remote; USD 94,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Cell phone

Training programs

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company, is seeking a Technical Sales Representative to grow revenue in the power generation sector. This remote, field-based role covers northern and central Illinois, with a focus on nuclear and other highly regulated plants.

You will build relationships, perform field testing, and lead safety-first practices across multiple sites. The role requires a bachelor's degree and at least three years in technical sales, plus a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Three years of technical sales or field sales support experience.
• Valid Driver's License required.

Responsibilities

• Support industrial water treatment programs essential for safe power generation.
• Monitor and optimize cooling-water treatment, chemical feed systems, water chemistry, and smart monitoring technologies.
• Perform field testing, equipment inspection, calibration and reporting of program performance.
• Collaborate with station chemistry, operations and maintenance to address risks and improve plant reliability.

Skills

Technical sales

Field sales support

Driver's license

Education

Bachelor's degree

Engineering or life sciences degree

Job description

As the industry leader in water technology, we’re growing and need talented people like you to help us continue to protect the world’s most vital resource.

Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company, is seeking a Technical Sales Representative to join its industry leading sales team. You’ll be responsible for revenue and profit growth of programs and services in targeted accounts. With a consultative sales approach, you’ll build relationships with existing customers by understanding their key business drivers and executing system assurance programs. With strong account leadership, you’ll also convert strategic competitive accounts and sell new technologies to current customers.

What’s in it For You:

• You will join a growth company offering a competitive base salary, bonus structure and benefits
• Receive a company vehicle and cell phone
• Opportunity for a long term, advancing career path in service, sales or management
• Access to the industry’s most innovative training programs
• Support from a dedicated technical service team
• Culture that values safety first, including training and personal protection
• Feel proud each day to work for a company that provides clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments

What You Will Do:

• Supporting industrial water treatment programs that are critical to safe, reliable, and efficient power generation.
• Monitoring and optimizing cooling-water and related treatment programs, chemical feed systems, water chemistry, and digital monitoring/control technologies.
• Performing routine field testing, equipment inspection, calibration, troubleshooting, chemical inventory management, and program-performance reporting.
• Working closely with station chemistry, operations, maintenance, and other customer stakeholders to identify risks, resolve treatment challenges, and improve plant reliability and thermal performance.
• Supporting condenser and heat-exchanger performance, biological and scale control, corrosion management, lake/raw-water management, and other site-specific water applications.
• Participating in periodic plant outages, inspections, technical reviews, KPI meetings, and business reviews.
• Maintaining strong procedural adherence, human-performance practices, and a safety-first mindset appropriate for highly regulated nuclear generating facilities.
• Developing strong customer relationships while identifying opportunities to deliver measurable operational, reliability, sustainability, and economic value.
  

Territory/Location Information:

• Territory covers 100 mile radius from Joliet, IL
• Targeted accounts are within the Power Generation Industry (Nuclear, Coal, and Natural Gas)
• <25% overnight travel required

Position Details:

This territory covers a regional portfolio of power generation facilities across northern and central Illinois, primarily supporting the nuclear power industry , within approximately a 100-mile radius of Joliet, IL. This is a remote, field-based position. While the ideal candidate would be located in the western or southern suburbs of Chicago to provide convenient access to the territory, location flexibility may be considered, the greater distance from the territory may affect required travel and work life balance.

Because the assigned facilities are located within a defined regional footprint, the position will require regular travel between customer sites and a strong field presence. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working independently across multiple locations while collaborating closely with the broader Power team and technical resources.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• Three years of technical sales or field sales support experience
• Possess a valid Driver's License and acceptable Motor Vehicle Record
• Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (chemical, mechanical, industrial) or life sciences (biology, chemistry, etc.)
• Experience in power generation, nuclear operations, industrial water treatment, chemistry, engineering, or other highly regulated industrial environments .
• Water treatment or specialty chemical industry experience
• Working knowledge of OR operations, wet end chemistry, pulp mill operations>

As a trusted partner, your customers will rely on you for their success. Nalco Water is committed to seeing you succeed and provides several exceptional technical training programs to ensure you’re prepared to solve any customer problem.

Training programs are held in the field and at Nalco Water Headquarters in Naperville, IL; travel arranged and paid for by Nalco Water. Based on your skill level, topics covered may include technology, product, service, business and industry acumen, direct coaching and mentoring, management and leadership, classroom training and certifications.

About Nalco Water:

In a world with increasing water shortage and contamination challenges, Nalco Water, an Ecolab company, helps customers conserve more than 161 billion gallons of water each year. We work with customers across the world in the light industry (institutional, food & beverage, transportation and manufacturing), heavy industry (chemical, power and primary metals industries), paper and mining operations to reduce, reuse, and recycle their water while protecting their systems and equipment. Nalco Water provides the unique opportunity to work with a broad suite of technologies to deliver automated monitoring systems, data analysis and deep technical expertise to increase efficiency, sustainability and performance for our customers.

Annual or Hourly Compensation Range

The total Compensation range for this position is $93,800-$140,600 which includes base pay and target incentive based on performance, per plan terms. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

Benefits

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Potential Customer Requirements Notice

• Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

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