Main Duties & Responsibilities
Primary Job Role
Provides technical support to the Sales Department by conducting evaluations, completing reviews of project specifications.
Makes effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress the project. Serves as a point of contact for teams to ensure team actions mutually contribute to the success of the project.
Retrieves vendor drawings for submittals / fabrications, communicates assembly / fabrication work with clients and master scheduler for all required projects. Coordinates final hand-off procedures with the Service & Sales Department.
Maintains and often exceeds sales estimated margins through value engineering methods and effective purchasing practices for outside materials.
Provides technical communication with all manufacturers and their representatives.
Contributes to the evaluation process of all new products and services through research, testing and feasibility analysis of these products/services.
Performs quality control on the project throughout development to maintain standards expected.
Maintains accurate records and files. Assures correct vendor pricing and specification sheets are current.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Essential Job Competencies
Safety: fully supports, encourages and follows safe work behavior, and considers safety of paramount importance in the workplace.
Job Specific Skills: Demonstrates the required depth and mastery of knowledge and skill associated with the job as identified in the Learning Management System (LMS) and other applicable sources. Demonstrates the effective application of the job specific knowledge, skills and ability required to resolve job related challenges in the workplace. Refer to job specific training requirements for the job identified in the LMS.
Communication: Uses active listening skills, conveying information with the appropriate medium that is clear and easily understood. Uses feedback to verify effective and accurate communication has occurred. Ensures that others having a need to know are kept informed about developments, progress, problems and plans through consistent, effective communication. Avoids surprises.
Planning and Organizing: Creates realistic schedules and follows them. Evaluates progress against schedule and goal. Identifies the sequence of tasks and the resources needed to achieve a goal, and prioritizes key action steps. Anticipates the impacts / risks of actions. Seeks and uses others' input about critical actions, timelines, sequencing, scope, methodology, expected outcomes, and priorities. Adjusts plans based on input.
Fiscal Accountability: Follows all fiscal regulations, standards and control procedures when committing fiscal resources or processing financial transactions. Responsibly allocates and accounts for the use of fiscal resources, weighing alternatives and their benefits. Monitors budget usage and ensures critical costs are covered. Seeks ways to reduce costs.
Confidence and Drive: Confident in one's own ideas and capability to be successful; willingness to take an independent position in the face of opposition. Approaches challenging tasks with a "can-do" attitude. Driven to see projects and tasks through to successful completion, is not swayed by resistance and focuses on achievement of the initiative.
Takes Initiative: Takes appropriate action to resolve issues without requiring direction. Seeks out others involved in a situation to learn their perspectives. Makes difficult decisions in a timely manner. Is willing to make decisions in difficult or ambiguous situations, when time is critical. Assertive in a group when it is necessary to facilitate change, overcome an impasse, face issues, or ensure that decisions are made.
Analytical: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach breaking down complex tasks into its component parts and considering each part in detail. Compares alternatives, evaluating the costs, benefits, risks, and chances for success, in making decisions. Identifies patterns and trends to determine root cause. Generates a range of creative solutions, choosing the most appropriate option.
Company Overview
In 1962, Ring Power Corporation became a full-line Caterpillar dealer in North Florida, and later expanded its authorized territory to include Central Florida.
Today, Ring Power Corporate headquarters in St. Augustine oversees the operations of 18 branch locations throughout the state of Florida, including large regional facilities in Tampa and Orlando and crane and forklift sales and service facilities in Pompano. Ring Power also has eight facilities outside of Florida - The Carolinas, Georgia, Texas & Tennessee- to serve the needs of other specialized industries and customers.
Ring Power Corporation has become one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in the Southeastern United States through dedication to the mission of customer service. In order to preserve the "Customers First" reputation that Ring Power was built on, we continually train our employees and work closely with our customers to assure complete satisfaction, especially after the sale.
Currently, more than 2,300 employees at 20+ locations throughout Florida and the United States work hard to provide the highest quality construction equipment, backed by responsive, professional service and support at every level.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Formal Education Bachelor's Degree in a related area of study
Experience 3-4 years
Required / Credentials
Able to easily and effectively comprehend written material and communicate orally and in writing with employees and customers.
Not Required but Highly Desired Criteria
Bachelor's degree in construction management, business management or engineering.
Three to five years of experience in the manufacturing industry.
Updating of Knowledge
Job requirements change requiring re-training to stay current every 1-2 years.
Responsibility for Change, Innovation, Overall Improvement, and/or Effectiveness
Problem Solving Job requires complex problem solving skills in a dynamic environment. Independent research and analysis are routinely required to develop appropriate solutions. Awareness and intervention is expected to prevent problems from occurring.
Creativity Job requires creativity as part of carrying out daily activities. New approaches are encouraged.
Autonomy Job is not normally monitored, but overall objectives are clearly defined. Use of discretion in how the work is done, setting priorities and decision making is encouraged. More emphasis is placed on achieving the desired outcome, not on controlling the process.
Working Environment
Stress Load Regular exposure to these stresses (20-80% of the time).
Workload Fluctuation Job frequently involves changes in priorities, complexity and/or quantity of work.
Work Schedule Work is typically performed during regular business hours with occasional requirements to work nights, holidays and weekends.
Organizational Impact
A person's performance in this job has considerable immediate impact on expense, efficiencies or achievement of overall department objectives.
Supervisory Responsibility
Job involves a first level leader, responsible for team members only - no subordinate Supervisors / Managers)
Physical Demands
"NA": Not Applicable
"O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)
"F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)
"C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)
O: Climbing
O: Balancing
O: StoopingO: Kneeling
O: Crouching
O: CrawlingO: Reaching
O: Standing
C: SittingO: Walking
C: Feeling
C: FingeringO: Grasping
C: Repetitive Motion
C: TalkingC: HearingO: Pushing - Up to 25 lbs.
O: Pulling - Up to 25 lbs.
O: Lifting - Up to 25 lbs.N/A: Pushing - 26-50 lbs
N/A: Pulling - 26-50 lbs.
N/A: Lifting - 26-50 lbs.N/A: Pushing - Over 50 lbs.
N/A: Pulling - Over 50 lbs.
N/A: Lifting - Over 50 lbs.
Environmental Conditions
"NA": Not Applicable
"O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)
"F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)
"C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day
C: Inside conditions: Protection from weather but not necessarily from temperature change. O: Outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather. N/A: Extreme cold: Temperatures below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour. N/A: Extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. N/A: Noise: sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard above the ambient noise level N/A: Vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities of whole body. N/A: Hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions (i.e. proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working in high places, exposure to heat and/or chemicals. N/A: Atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: Fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases or poor ventilation. N/A: Oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids. N/A: Air particulates / contaminants: the worker is required to wear respirator.
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