Technical Sales Trainee; Recent Graduate Development Program

Overview

Puffer-Sweiven is a local Impact Partner of Emerson. We offer a broad base of superior solutions including the top product lines for a given application. Our specialties include Process Control & Safety Systems, Control Valves & Regulators, Isolation Valves & Actuation, Oil & Gas Automation, Reliability Solutions & Services, Pressure Management, Specialty Pumps & Rotating Equipment, and Instrumentation. We serve the Central and Gulf Coast regions of Texas with quality products, technical support, and knowledgeable staff to implement process solutions.

Job Title: Technical Sales Trainee (Recent Graduate Development Program)

Job Category: Sales Associate

Requisition Number: TECHN
002389

Locations: Corp Office & Dist Center, 4230 Greenbriar, Houston, TX 77477, USA

Posted: January 16, 2026

Employment Type: Full-Time

• Receives training and performs basic duties in several departments such as Sales, Operations, Inside Sales, Accounting, or Branch sales.
• Learns line and staff functions, operations, management viewpoints, and company policies and practices that affect each phase of business.
• Sets performance goals and objectives with upper management.
• Monitors performance progress with management and Human Resources representatives.
• Observes experienced sales professionals to acquire knowledge of methods, procedures, and standards required for performance of sales job responsibilities.
• Receives training in functions and operations of related departments to facilitate subsequent transferability between departments and to provide greater promotional opportunities.
• Prepare proposals/quotes including product sizing, selection and pricing.
• Interact with customers on a day-to-day basis providing technical, commercial, and general sales support.
• Evaluate customer requirements and identify opportunities for expanding scope of products/services supplied.
• Proactively follow up with customers on quotations.
• Attends company-sponsored training classes.

Education/Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university, in Engineering or Industrial Distribution, is required.
• General knowledge of business, industry and sales knowledge learned through a specific degree program.
• A basic framework and understanding of sale, or sales engineering within the process industry is a plus.

Experience/

Skills:

• Previous or Co-op experience directly related to the valve or process industry preferred.
• Microsoft Word and Excel experience required. Order Processing, Inventory, Database software experience preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• High ethical standards.
• Good organization skills.

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