Heavy Equipment Inspector

About the role

The Heavy Equipment Inspector is responsible for collecting information and documentation from sellers of heavy equipment, vehicles, trucks, and trailers. The role involves filling out detailed and accurate listing sheets, taking photos and videos, obtaining service records and titles, and scheduling and completing data capture for equipment being sold on purplewave.com. This position will travel throughout the region and communicate effectively with sellers to ensure a smooth auction process.

Responsibilities

• Communicate Purple Wave's auction process clearly and effectively to sellers.
• Schedule, complete, and document data capture for equipment being sold on purplewave.com.
• Gather and organize necessary information and documentation, including service records and titles.
• Complete detailed and accurate listing sheets and take high-quality photos and videos.
• Represent the company in a professional and ethical manner to heavy equipment owners, buyers, and sellers.
• Aid Marketing department with the creation of social media videos.
• Distribute promotional and marketing materials across various channels to effectively reach target audiences and enhance brand visibility.
• Assist sellers in preparing assets for sale, including tasks such as but not limited to jump-starting vehicles, cleaning out assets, removing decals, and ensuring assets are presentation-ready and appealing to potential buyers.
• Undertake additional assigned duties as requested.

Qualifications

• A High School Degree or GED.
• Ability to travel extensively when required.
• Knowledge of fleet, heavy agriculture and construction equipment.
• Proficiency in various technologies, tools, and systems to gather and share information electronically.
• Self-motivated with a strong work ethic.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent people skills and ability to maintain high ethical standards.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.

Skills

• Not Required: Bid calling skills and auction experience.
• Spanish speaking bi-lingual candidates are encouraged to apply.

About Purple Wave

PurpleWave.com is a leader in the equipment auction industry focusing on construction, ag, fleet, and government equipment. We are a data-driven, quickly changing and evolving, growing organization. Our focus is on marketing the assets we sell for our customers to find the highest quality bidders for the best recoveries for our sellers. We strive to make this transaction Straight, Simple, and Sold. We live daily by our core values of trust, team, care, and passion to be the place people want to work and our customers want to return to for their equipment buying and selling needs for their businesses. PurpleWave.com is the largest no-reserve Internet auction company in the Midwest. We have over 300 employees, nearly doubling in size in the last three years. We have a robust tech team and continue to invest in progressive techniques to enhance our services. While working at PurpleWave, you will have the opportunity to help our mission of being the easiest, most straightforward place to buy and sell used equipment. PurpleWave empowers its employees to solve problems effectively in a family-run business culture. We provide opportunities for continued education as you grow your career with tuition reimbursement. We have a generous benefits package in one of the fastest-growing companies in the area.

Equal Opportunity Employer

PurpleWave, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice to select the best-qualified candidate for each position in the organization. No employee of the Company will discriminate against an applicant for employment or a fellow employee because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, or other physical or mental disability, military or veteran status.