Regional Sales Engineer

The Position

Colesco is seeking a hunter minded Sales engineer to aggressively grow our sales in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Missouri. This is a hands on, full cycle sales role focused on new account acquisition, reactivation of dormant accounts, and expansion of existing customers through cross selling.

Location:

Cincinnati, Ohio

Reports to:

General Manager

Colesco is seeking a hunter minded Sales engineer to aggressively grow our sales in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Missouri. This is a hands on, full cycle sales role focused on new account acquisition, reactivation of dormant accounts, and expansion of existing customers through cross selling.

• Prospect and develop new accounts across the Midwest territory
• Conduct cold calling, on site prospecting, and structured territory planning
• Identify competitive valve, instrumentation and pump replacement opportunities
• Call on end users, OEMs, contractors, system integrators and EPC firms.

• Re engage inactive or underdeveloped accounts within the territory
• Cross sell valves, instrumentation, pumps, and fluid control solutions into existing customers
• Increase product penetration within multi site accounts
• Identify retrofit, upgrade, and aftermarket opportunities

• Prepare technical information and manage customer quotations and pricing
• Own opportunities from quote through purchase order
• Place orders directly with manufacturers and vendor partners
• Coordinate lead times, submittals, and order follow up
• Maintain CRM records, pipeline forecasts, and activity tracking

• Approximately 50% outside sales (field work, plant visits, prospecting)
• Approximately 50% inside sales execution (applications, quoting, order processing)
• Expected travel: 2 to 3 days per week within the Midwest

• 3+ years of industrial sales or business development experience
• Proven success hunting new business and reactivating accounts
• Experience in fluid control, industrial equipment, or process systems is preferred
• Strong prospecting discipline and time management
• Valid driver’s license

• Experience with valves strongly preferred
• Instrumentation, Pump or sanitary process equipment experience a plus
• Background in industrial markets
• CRM experience

• Colesco is a profitable, thriving company that’s investing in growth. Career development is important for us.
• This is an opportunity to join a talented, hard working team that’s pushing itself to be the best it can be.
• We give back to the community through philanthropy and community service.
• True hunter role with autonomy and territory ownership
• Ability to sell complete solutions, not just part numbers
• Large Midwest installed base with real growth opportunity
• Performance driven culture with strong earnings upside

Founded in 1962, Colesco is a long established distributor of valves, flow control, instrumentation, and an expanding pump portfolio. We support solutions inside the plant and in gray area like utility rooms and infrastructure. We partner with leading manufacturers to deliver engineered solutions, supported by strong application knowledge and responsive service. We support some of the largest companies in North America, serving industries from pharma, food & beverage, and chemical to energy, automotive, aerospace, semiconductors, HVAC, hospitals, education, and data centers.
Richards Industrials/Colesco firmly supports the principle and philosophy of equal opportunity for all individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.