Technical Sales Representative - Nuclear Power Industries

ecolab; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Cell phone

Industry training programs

Job summary

Nalco Water is seeking a Technical Sales Representative to join our field-based team in northern/central Illinois. You will drive revenue growth, build relationships with existing customers, and deliver system assurance programs in targeted accounts within the nuclear power sector.

You will monitor cooling-water programs, perform field testing, and collaborate with station chemistry and operations to improve plant reliability. Travel across sites is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 3 years of technical or field sales experience.
• Valid driver's license and clean MVR.
• Immigration sponsorship is not available.

Responsibilities

• Support water-treatment programs for safe, reliable power generation.
• Monitor cooling-water treatment and related chemical systems.
• Perform field testing, inspections, calibration, and reporting.
• Build relationships with plant stakeholders to identify risks and improve reliability.
• Travel routinely to multiple sites within northern/central Illinois.

Skills

Technical sales

Customer relationships

Field sales

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CRM software

ERP systems

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:

This position is based in the Chicago suburbs

Territory covers Dresden, LaSalle, Clinton IL.

Targeted accounts are within the nuclear power industries

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 w