Job Description
Job Title: Specification Manager/Flow Control (Water and Sewage Systems)
Location: Can be based in Austin, Houston or San Antonio - Will travel within the Central and Southern Texas Region
Hugh M. Cunningham Companies is a family-owned business established in 1947. Our associates are among the best in the industry! We have been hiring champions for over 75 years – people that share our passion for helping others. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality service and value to our clients. When you join our team, you can count on exceptional support, guidance, and encouragement from the top down!
Overview: Provide Technical Support to Project Sales by calling on groups of Architects, Engineers, Facility Managers and Owners with the goal of having HMC represented products specified for projects in assigned marketplaces. Meets regularly with key decision-makers within assigned municipalities, state and federal agencies to enhance the company’s position and continuously bring value-added services to the relationship.
Job Duties:
- Travel throughout assigned territory to meet with approving authorities: facility managers, owners, architects, engineers/establish and maintain relationships.
- Present represented products on upcoming projects.
- Prepare action plans and schedules to identify specification needs.
- Prepare cost estimates by studying blueprints, plans, and related customer documents; consulting with engineers, architects, and other professional and technical personnel.
- Follow up with Approving Authority for detail and sizing of products.
- Consult with technical support staff; to adjust quotations based on engineering changes.
- Provide technical information and training to engineer and architect contacts.
- Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; advising customer on product adherence to requirements; advising on needed actions.
- Prepare sales engineering reports by collecting, analyzing, summarizing sales information and engineering and application trends.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
SUPERIORITY OF PRODUCT, SERVICES, PEOPLE, AND "THE PRICELESS INGREDIENT".
Spanning over nine decades, Hugh M. Cunningham Companies has personified a sales agency for building products: mechanical, light industrial, waterworks, fire protection, turf, irrigation, HVAC, waterwell, agriculture and plumbing products. HMC represents the best manufacturers in the South-Central United States: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Our founder, Hugh M. Cunningham, Sr. was responsible for establishing one of the first manufacturers' representative agencies west of the Mississippi, as well as numerous innovations that directly impacted the way manufacturers' representatives operate today. HMC employs over 160 people focused on one overriding goal: marketing, selling, and servicing our manufacturers, to our customers, in our territory.