Cement Technical Services Representative

Job Summary

The Cement Technical Services Representative provides quality technical service functions to CalPortland's customer base in Northern California. This individual must be highly pro-active in order to maintain and/or create cement sales opportunities with contractors, state and county public works agencies, as well as customers.

Benefits

At CalPortland, we’re proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that provides health and financial support to our most important resources: our employees.  Your benefits are an important part of your overall compensation at CalPortland. That’s why we give you a wide range of benefits to choose from.  All regular full time employees may enroll in a variety of health and welfare plans including medical, dental and vision plans.  Other benefits include life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, and retirement program.  The company also has a variety of voluntary benefits for employees to choose from.

Compensation

$90 - $120k+ DOE

Responsibilities

• Strong technical interaction with customers and potential customers, intra-company personnel, sales, and promotional and technical associations
• Become familiar with cement performance and quality, both chemically and physically at each location, where cement is produced or distributed
• Communicate customer problems, needs, and future opportunities effectively with sales and operations personnel
• Work with various agencies on specifications
• Provide technical updates and/or training to sales and operations personnel as needed
• Interact with the Central Laboratory personnel to perform customer service testing such as evaluation of their raw materials with our various cements or experimental testing of products
• Interact with management regarding cement quality, new products, changes in specifications, product uses, etc.
• Attend quality control meetings at cement plants and provide feedback to plant on customer quality needs/comments
• Travel required as needed

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Requirements/Qualifications

• 3-5 years of technical services experience in the cement/concrete industry and/or construction materials industry
• Ability to spontaneously discuss industry, market and product knowledge in a variety of audiences
• Strong formal presentation skills
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Self-motivated
• Ability to influence and drive decision-making as appropriate
• Strong analytical skills
• Team-player both internally and externally
• Mid-level skill level with Microsoft Office Software, i.e., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Clean driving record (for last five years)

Preferred:

• Experience with public entities (state, county, city governments, etc.)
• Background in construction and/or manufacturing of construction products

Conditions of Employment

Successful candidate must submit to post-offer pre-employment physical examination, drug/alcohol screen, and background check. Some positions require FMCSA regulated on-going drug and alcohol testing.

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