Regional Sales Engineer

New Business Development & Territory Growth

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

Account Reactivation & Expansion

• Identify competitive valve, instrumentation, and pump replacement opportunities.
• Call on end users, OEMs, contractors, system integrators, and EPC firms.
• 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.

Sales Execution & Inside Sales Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with valves strongly preferred.
• Instrumentation, pump, or sanitary process equipment experience a plus.
• CRM experience.

Why This Role Would Be Exciting for You?

Colesco is a profitable, thriving company that's investing in growth. 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.

About the Role

The Position Colesco is seeking a hunter-minded Sales Engineer to aggressively grow 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.

Company Profile

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 areas 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.