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Outside Sales Specialist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of outside sales experience
  • Water/wastewater experience required
  • Exceptional communication skills; both verbal and written
  • Valid US Driver License

Responsibilities

  • Expand existing relationships with end users, contractors, and engineers
  • Provide professional product promotion/selection and support
  • Travel within assigned sales territory
  • Attend product training seminars and participate in trade shows

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Relationship Building

About the company

United Flow Technologies (UFT) logo

United Flow Technologies (UFT)

  • Water & Wastewater Treatment
  • 201–500
UFT is an integrated platform focused on delivering products and technical solutions to water environment professionals, including sophisticated engineers and operators in the water and wastewater industry. While we have a national footprint, we go to market through a family of market-leading regional brands in targeted geographies. In the regions where we operate, we have a manufacturers’ representative network and system integration services. Our products and services include process equipment, flow control, pumps, automation controls, and other equipment solutions for the municipal and industrial markets. Our scale allows us to deliver a full suite of products and services to our customers, which makes us a strategic partner for both customers and OEM partners. Our customers trust our family of brands as we have served them over many decades to provide reliability in water and wastewater treatment facilities that have high costs of failure. United Flow Technologies (UFT) regional brands are MISCOwater, Tesco Controls, Macaulay Controls Company, The Henry P. Thompson Company, Shape Incorporated, EES, Newman Regency Group, Southwest Valve and Equipment, Kodru Mooney, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota Pump Works.

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Job description

Quality Controls, a UFT company is a representative and stocking distributor of flow control equipment, process equipment and process instrumentation.  We maintain a large inventory of valves, gates, actuators and instrumentation to meet our customers’ demanding requirements.   Our ability to warranty the material that we sell has earned us high praise from our customers and the owners of the facilities where our equipment is installed. Quality Controls, Inc. was founded in 1992 and has always focused on solving customer needs with a mantra of “Commitment to Quality and Service.”

The Outside Sales Specialist position is an outside sales role requiring you to meet and be comfortable conversing with consultants, treatment plant-level personnel and contractors. Plant level or direct sales activities require in-person consultation, demonstration, and problem-solving skills.

Candidates must reside in Metro DC or Maryland area.


What you'll do:
  • Expand existing relationships with end users, contractors, and engineers while building lasting relationships with new accounts.
  • Provide engineers and end users a professional level of product promotion/selection, support and follow up to ensure projects are successful and to maximize sales revenue.
  • Travel within assigned sales territory.
  • Be self-motivated to set up meetings, product promotion events, and relationship building activities to maintain frequent contact with your customer base.
  • Attend product training seminars and participate in local industry associations and trade shows.
  • Travel to represented (manufacturer) companies for training on an as-needed basis.
  • Work with end-users with a hands-on approach.  This may entail assisting with commissioning new equipment.
  • Work with the inside sales staff to provide a managerial role for projects and the management thereof.
  • Provide monthly sales reporting including forecasting and insights to current bid activity.

  • What you bring:
  • 3+ years of outside sales experience. Experience selling mechanical equipment like valves, actuators, and pumps desired.
  • Water/ wastewater experience required.
  • Exceptional communication skills; both verbal and written.
  • Valid US Driver License
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field preferred.
  • The ability to travel overnight up to 20%.
  • Great organizational and relationship skills.
  • Proficient with Microsoft 365 and familiar with CRM systems.

  • Compensation:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision 
  • 401k with match
  • Vacation time
  • $100-130K base +uncapped commission - Pay will depend on education, experience, skills, and location. The posted range reflects our current expectations but may change. Join our team to innovate the future of water and wastewater. You’ll collaborate with coworkers who are the best and the brightest, challenge yourself on exciting work, and help build the best water and wastewater platform company in the U.S.    Quality Controls is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law. 

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