Sales Coordinator
About the Role
Join DeSilva Gates Construction’s Materials Division in Sunol as a Sales Coordinator. You will support daily operations by coordinating customer orders, scheduling deliveries, and serving as a key point of communication between internal and external teams. This role is ideal for a proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment while ensuring accuracy in every detail.
Responsibilities
- Order Processing: Process high-volume customer sales orders, accurately enter information into company software systems, verify order details, and ensure timely order fulfillment.
- Dispatch & Scheduling: Handle a high volume of inbound and outbound phone calls, answer customer questions, resolve order or delivery concerns, and provide exceptional customer support.
- Customer Account Administration: Process new and existing customer credit applications, maintain customer account documentation, and ensure all required information is complete and properly filed.
- Scale House & Ticketing: Process material loadout tickets through electronic dispatch systems and provide backup assistance to the Scale House during busy periods or as needed.
- Data Management & Reporting: Maintain accurate electronic sales, inventory, customer, and operational records while preparing reports and verifying data accuracy.
- Administrative Support: Perform general administrative duties, including filing, scanning, document management, correspondence, and other office tasks while managing multiple priorities.
- Communication: Work closely with customers, sales representatives, dispatch, production, trucking companies, and accounting to ensure smooth daily operations.
Requirements
- Previous experience in customer service, sales administration, dispatch, construction materials, manufacturing, trucking, or a related industry.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate with internal and external personnel of all levels.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel. Able to learn new programs quickly.
- Experience using dispatch, ticketing, loadout, or other proprietary software systems is preferred, but not required.
Qualifications
- Ability to effectively multitask and prioritize workload independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage changing priorities.
- Proactive and resourceful, taking initiative to resolve issues and drive tasks forward.
- Analytical and detail-oriented, ensuring accuracy and compliance in all documentation.
- Team-oriented with a positive attitude and willingness to assist other departments as needed.
Benefits
- Pay: Base salary from $63,000/year (depending on qualifications).
- Profit Sharing: Cash and deferred.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision (competitive premiums with participation in yearly wellness program).
- Insurance: Life and disability.
- Paid Time Off: Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401k Plan: Retirement savings plan.
- Financial Planning Assistance: Support for financial planning.
- Career Growth: Opportunities for development and advancement.
About DeSilva Gates Construction
DeSilva Gates Construction is a place to build a strong, growth-focused career supported by mentorship from industry leaders. We deliver heavy civil construction projects with integrity, professionalism, and a commitment to excellence—while helping our employees advance and succeed. Founded in 1932, we are an award-winning contractor specializing in grading, paving, and construction management. Our culture is rooted in safety, respect, teamwork, and clear communication, with a family-oriented, client-focused approach grounded in honesty and accountability. We're looking for self-motivated, ethical professionals who take ownership, build strong relationships, and thrive both independently and in teams.