Jobs at Van Meter Inc.

Manages and grows customer relationships, coordinates sales, identifies new business opportunities, and provides product and project support. Conducts customer visits, develops account-specific selling strategies, analyzes buying patterns and business reports, and collaborates with inside sales representatives and technicians. Requires strong communication, negotiation, problem-solving, leadership, business acumen, and adaptability, along with sales experience and willingness to travel.

Operations intern supporting warehouse and distribution center activities, including receiving, picking, shipping, inventory management, process analysis, procedure improvement, and operational projects. The rotational program provides exposure to multiple departments, business processes, customer-facing functions, and cross-functional collaboration. Interns complete and present a capstone project while developing professional, technical, analytical, and leadership skills in a primarily on-site warehouse and office environment.

Sources and screens candidates, builds talent pipelines, coordinates job postings, interviews, recruiting events, and college partnerships, and supports recruiting operations. The role maintains candidate records and calendars, creates job advertisements and outreach, analyzes sourcing and recruiting metrics, prepares reports and dashboards, and recommends process improvements. It requires close collaboration with recruiters and People Operations leaders while maintaining candidate communication, confidentiality, and accurate recruiting documentation.

Sources and screens candidates, builds talent pipelines, coordinates job postings, interviews, recruiting events, and calendars, and maintains recruiting records. Analyzes sourcing data, prepares recruiting metrics and dashboards, and recommends process improvements. The role partners with recruiters, colleges, community organizations, and hiring stakeholders while supporting entry-level and high-volume hiring. It requires strong organization, communication, confidentiality, technology skills, and occasional regional travel.

Serves as a lifecycle services subject matter expert and trusted advisor for industrial customers. Identifies operational, reliability, workforce, and improvement needs; develops recommendations, business cases, proposals, and roadmaps; and advances service agreements and recurring revenue opportunities. Partners with account managers, suppliers, customer success, and delivery teams throughout opportunity development and adoption handoff. Maintains CRM activity, supports sales enablement, and contributes to lifecycle services portfolio and commercialization strategy.

Sells products and services to construction, contractor, and OEM customers through inbound and outbound communications. Responsibilities include advising on product selection, quoting prices and credit terms, preparing orders, providing stock and delivery information, managing customer relationships, reviewing transaction reports, coordinating with outside sales, and resolving order or customer issues. The role also involves vendor purchasing oversight, sales data entry, negotiation, and maintaining accurate account information.

Coordinates large commodity projects from initiation through completion, managing customer and vendor communication, purchasing, delivery schedules, pricing, inventory, reporting, and issue resolution. Serves as a liaison among customers, wire centers, suppliers, commodity managers, purchasers, and sales representatives. Supports pricing updates, product launches, market growth, process improvements, and accurate project progress reporting while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.

Supports automation engineering projects through application research, product selection, estimation, BOM development, technical documentation, configuration, programming, testing, integration, commissioning, troubleshooting, and customer support. Works under experienced engineers while gaining foundational knowledge of automation systems, controls, and industrial technologies. Collaborates with customers, suppliers, sales, and project teams, participates in customer-site activities and training, and follows engineering, safety, and documentation standards.

Supports industrial automation initiatives and customer-focused projects while shadowing product specialists, visiting customer sites, completing product training, and assisting with proof-of-concept and application development activities. Collaborates with internal teams, develops technical and problem-solving skills, presents project outcomes, and gains exposure to automation products, customer solutions, and cross-functional business operations.

Supports industrial automation sales initiatives through job shadowing, customer site visits, technical solution development, demonstrations, trade shows, and cross-functional collaboration. The intern builds technical expertise, learns sales strategies, assists customers and internal teams, and participates in training and professional development activities.

Supports industrial automation engineering projects through application research, product selection, estimation, BOM development, technical documentation, configuration, programming, testing, integration, commissioning, troubleshooting, and customer support. The intern collaborates with engineering, sales, suppliers, and customers while learning automation systems, controls, integration, safety practices, and project processes. Overnight travel to customer sites may be required.

Supports project coordination for electrical distribution, lighting, and gear projects. Responsibilities include shadowing project teams, assisting with customer solutions and design processes, attending training and industry events, supporting event setup, completing administrative tasks, and traveling to customer sites. The intern collaborates with cross-functional teams and gains exposure to project management, engineering, automation, robotics, and information technology careers.

Supports project coordination for electrical distribution, lighting, and gear projects. Responsibilities include cross-functional collaboration, customer-site visits, event and trade-show support, assisting with lighting and gear solutions, administrative tasks, and learning project development and design processes. The internship provides exposure to customer interactions, vendors, field operations, and technical industry practices.

Supports customer relationships and product sales initiatives through customer visits, inventory management, product demonstrations, joint sales calls, order processing, and product replenishment. The intern works with Account Managers, Product Specialists, manufacturer representatives, and mentors while identifying customer needs and improvement opportunities. The role includes local travel to customer and branch locations, inventory-related physical tasks, product training, and exposure to industrial, automation, warehouse, and distribution environments.

Industrial Sales Interns gain hands-on experience in industrial automation, technical sales, customer engagement, and solution development. Responsibilities include job shadowing automation teams, supporting technical solutions, joining customer site visits, developing product expertise, assisting with training materials, attending events and demonstrations, and collaborating across departments. The role requires strong communication, analytical, organizational, and teamwork skills, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office and the ability to travel to customer, branch, and event locations.

Sell products and services to construction, contractor, and OEM customers via phone and office interactions. Manage inbound/outbound communications, assist with product selection, prepare quotes and sales orders, track inventory and delivery, and collaborate with outside sales and vendors to resolve issues and support account activity.

Design electrical layouts and BOMs for MCCs, packaged drives, and control panels using EPLAN and internal tools; partner with sales and suppliers to develop competitive proposals, ensure compliance with safety and certification standards, support standardization and continuous improvement, and provide technical clarifications during project execution.