Technical Sales Representative Nuclear Power Industries

As the industry leader in water technology were growing and need talented people like you to help us continue to protect the worlds most vital resource.

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

Whats 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 industrys 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
• <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:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors 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 youre 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.

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