Technical Sales Support

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Williamston, MI, USA
In-Office
Junior
Automotive • Chemical • Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
Supports technical sales and custom machinery projects from quoting through shipment. Converts orders into specifications, leads cross-functional meetings, tracks milestones, communicates updates, coordinates customer approvals and machine acceptance, manages punch lists, and arranges shipping documentation and logistics. The role bridges sales, engineering, production, materials, and customers while maintaining detailed project status and timelines.
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Company Description

Join our team as a Technical Sales Support professional and play a pivotal role in bringing complex, custom-engineered machinery to life. In this highly collaborative position, you’ll bridge sales, engineering, production, and customers—ensuring projects move seamlessly from quote to shipment. From supporting the promotion and configuration of advanced blow molding systems to leading machine order meetings, coordinating customer approvals, and managing acceptance and shipping logistics, you’ll be at the center of every project milestone. If you thrive in a fast-paced, detail-driven environment where technical knowledge meets customer partnership, this is your opportunity to make a measurable impact.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Sales Support:

  • Assist VP of Sales & Marketing, Regional Sales Managers, and Sales Project Engineers in promoting blow molding machinery and systems.
  • Support the quoting process by conducting research, providing specialized information, and creating engineering requests for special machine features.

Machine Orders and Project Management:

  • Convert sold machine orders into Machine Order Specification Sheets (MOSS) and lead MOSS meetings with engineering and production teams.
  • Provide regular status updates on machine orders, including timeline-specific work in progress and projected completions.
  • Communicate project updates between engineers, sales, and customers, including Gantt charting and major milestones.

Customer Coordination:

  • Serve as liaison between engineering and customers for time-sensitive approvals on machine layouts and revisions.
  • Coordinate machine acceptance, including scheduling, preparing materials, and facilitating customer arrival.
  • Support customers and salespeople throughout the machine acceptance process.

Shipping and Documentation:

  • Coordinate with materials department for shipping arrangements and confirm costs and tracking with customer locations.
  • Establish and maintain post-acceptance punch lists for handling prior to shipment.
  • Assign CSM numbers to track customer supplier components while in-house.

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Associate’s degree or two (2) year technical degree; or two (2) to three (3) years related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Experience in technical sales support, project coordination, or manufacturing preferred.

  • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office; experience with ERP systems and project tracking tools is a plus.

Additional Information

Bekum America Corporation offers a total compensation package that emphasizes the health and wellbeing of our diverse workforce, and encourages work-life balance. Our comprehensive benefits suite aligns with our belief that people are at the center of our success and should be valued as such.

Bekum America offers full medical, dental, vision, life, short and long term disability, tuition assistance, paid holidays, competitive vacation package, 401 (K) with company match and profit sharing, increases tied to performance, and a path for continued training and development.

Bekum America Corporation reserves the right to change, amend, add, delete, and otherwise assign any and all duties, responsibilities, and position titles as it deems necessary to meet the needs of its business.

Your contact person for this position:

Amber Stein, HR Manager, (517) 655-7126, [email protected]>

Skills Required

  • Associate degree, two-year technical degree, two to three years of related experience or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Experience in technical sales support, project coordination, or manufacturing
  • Experience with ERP systems and project tracking tools
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The Company
350 Employees
Year Founded: 1959

What We Do

Bekum is one of the world's leading manufacturers of extrusion blow-moulding machines. Hollow articles such as bottles and canisters are made from plastic on our machines. Numerous inventions and patents – some of which now form the industry standard for today's blow-moulding machines – were developed by Bekum. We consistently pursue the ongoing enhancement of this technology, which allows us to continue to offer our customers innovative solutions for a wide variety of applications.

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