Component Sales Rep

Company Overview: Truss Craft of Nebraska, a Mead Lumber Company, is a leading provider of products for professional contractors, builders, and remodelers. With 50 operating locations across nine Midwestern states, we are proud to be 100% employee-owned and ranked as the 12th largest building material supplier to professional builders in the U.S. At Mead Lumber, we strive to create a team that works and succeeds together every day in an authentic, team-oriented setting.

• Employee Ownership: As a 100% employee-owned company, you will have a stake in our shared success.
• Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible scheduling options that support your lifestyle.
• Career Growth: We are committed to your professional development, providing ongoing learning and advancement opportunities.

Job Summary: To professionally represent Truss Craft to vendors, branches, subcontractors and contractors. Use industry knowledge to educate our customers and sell products. Provide feedback to management in regards to needs of the customers as it pertains to wall panels, floor trusses, and roof trusses.

• Learn company products, procedures, culture, and customer service
• Ability to work with products such as wall panels, floor trusses, roof trusses, engineered wood products and conventional framing.
• Establish plan to meet with contractors routinely to grow component sales.
• Interacts with and advises customers and subcontractors on technical aspects of inquiries when more in-depth analysis is required; able to answer most questions using own knowledge and experience.
• Carefully qualify all conflicts between the architectural pages, structural pages and specification with the contractors.
• Work closely with customers to coordinate and schedule deliveries
• Build and develop strong relationships with customers and their sales staff.
• Understands and observes all safety procedures and practices in order to prevent injury to self or co-workers; attends periodic safety meetings as required; may recommend changes to improve safety procedures.

• Knowledge of company product pricing, discount, and estimating formulas and guidelines.
• Knowledge of basic math and measurement skills
• Minimum of 5 years of truss sales or design experience preferred
• Construction Knowledge (framing specific)
• Truss knowledge
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints and architectural drawings
• Minimum of High School Diploma or GED. Prefer an Associate’s Degree in business, marketing or construction management.
• Valid driver’s license ability to travel locally.
• May be required to occasionally lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects up to 50 pounds.

Once eligible, you will participate in our ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan), a unique benefit that can provide a financial source for your future/retirement that very few companies offer.  We also offer our employees competitive pay as well as the benefits listed below:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans
• 100% Employer Paid Group Term Life, AD&D, and STD
• Additional Voluntary Life, AD&D, and LTD
• Paid Time Off & Holiday Pay
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) Plan
• Scholarship & Tuition Assistance Programs
• Employee Assistance Program

Equal Employment Opportunity: Mead Lumber Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, age, pregnancy, marital status, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, or any other protected basis prohibited by law.