Outside Technical Sales Representative – CNC Tooling & Accessories
Salt Lake City, Utah
Are you the person everyone in the shop comes to when it's time to improve cycle times, solve tooling problems, or optimize a machining process?
We're looking for an experienced machining professional to join our outside sales team. This is an opportunity for someone with a strong technical background in CNC machining who enjoys working directly with customers to improve productivity and manufacturing performance.
Whether you're already in technical sales or you're a machinist, programmer, applications engineer, or manufacturing engineer looking to leverage your expertise in a customer-facing role, we'd like to talk with you.
What You'll Do
- Develop and grow relationships with manufacturers throughout the Salt Lake City market.
- Help customers select the right cutting tools, workholding, and machining accessories for their applications.
- Analyze machining processes and recommend tooling improvements that reduce cycle times, improve tool life, and increase profitability.
- Work alongside customers on the shop floor to troubleshoot machining challenges and implement process improvements.
- Generate new business while maintaining and expanding existing customer relationships.
- Partner with leading tooling manufacturers to deliver technical solutions that create measurable value.
What We're Looking For
- Hands-on CNC machining experience in a production or job shop environment.
- Strong knowledge of carbide cutting tools, indexable tooling, workholding, and machining processes.
- Experience selecting tooling, feeds and speeds, and optimizing machining operations.
- Ability to confidently discuss machining applications with programmers, engineers, shop owners, and production managers.
- Self-motivated with excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Sales experience is a plus but not required—we value technical credibility first.
Ideal Background
You may currently be a:
- CNC Machinist
- Lead Machinist
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Applications Engineer
- CNC Programmer
- Tooling Specialist
- Technical Sales Representative for another tooling distributor or manufacturer
If you've helped shops improve productivity through better tooling and machining strategies, you'll likely be a great fit.
What We Offer
- Competitive base salary, $80k - $85k plus commission – eventually moving to full commission – on-target earnings of $110k - $150k
- Vehicle allowance and business expense reimbursement.
- Comprehensive benefits – health, dental, vision – day-1 of employment
- 401k with match
- Ongoing product and technical training.
- The opportunity to represent industry-leading tooling brands while helping customers become more profitable.
If you're passionate about machining and enjoy solving manufacturing challenges, we'd love to hear from you.
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Skills Required
- Hands-on CNC machining experience in a production or job shop environment
- Strong knowledge of carbide cutting tools, indexable tooling, workholding, and machining processes
- Experience selecting tooling, feeds and speeds, and optimizing machining operations
- Ability to discuss machining applications with programmers, engineers, shop owners, and production managers
- Self-motivated with excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Sales experience
What We Do
Productivity Inc. supplies CNC machine tools, fabrication equipment, tooling, industrial supplies, and automation systems to manufacturers across the Midwest and Western U.S. Beyond equipment distribution, it provides applications engineering, automation integration, machine repair and preventive maintenance, appraisals, auctions, and machinery relocation. Its stated mission is to help precision manufacturers improve efficiency, precision, and profitability through products, technical expertise, and end-to-end manufacturing support.
