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For information on how to get into the elevator trade, please
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Field
Superintendent |
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Salesperson |
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Field Superintendent / Project Manager
General Field Duties
- Quality control
- Maintain & enhance productivity, keep jobs on
track
- Field personnel evaluations and discipline
- Overall schedule management
- Administer safety program
- Represent field issues to management and office
staff and vice versa
- Perform ongoing account management with
current customers to ensure customer satisfaction. 2nd level
representative in customer complaints after sales rep..
- Direct field training efforts
- Periodic spot checks on all jobs
Sales & Project Management Duties
- Assisting salespeople with selling maintenance, repair and
modernization for a full line of vertical transportation
equipment.
- Review technical aspects of bid documents,
assist salespeople in performing site-surveys.
- Assist salespeople in the technical
details of their work.
- Order materials & equipment
- Ensure that required materials or equipment will
be delivered on time and project will be completed within
contracted time limits.
- Scheduling work, maintaining/updating the work
schedule
- Visiting job sites to quality-check the Work by
Others prior to job start
- Preparing job info packets for the men
- Dispatching the men to jobs
- Ordering progress billings
- Checking on job progress - Quality & Productivity
Control
- Scheduling adjustors, closeout and final
inspections
- Organizing job paperwork into completed job
files to give to accounting
The person who would excel in this position would
enjoy a fast-paced, dynamic, small-company work environment
where what you do makes a difference. People who excel at
American Elevator generally can handle a higher degree of
independence and responsibility for the profitability and
quality of their work with a minimum of supervision. We have a
close-knit team of people who go out of their way to help each
other out in a true team spirit. You would be working directly
with the company owner and sales manager, Larry Bentley.
Salaried position and the pay range is
roughly equivalent to union mechanic-in-charge scale based on experience.
Benefits include full
medical, dental, vision, retirement and a vehicle allowance or vehicle.
Must have clean driving record, credit and background history.
Qualifications & How to
Apply:
This position requires a minimum of 15 years direct supervisory experience
in the elevator industry. You will be expected to drop your card
if you have not already done so. Please do not apply if you
do not have this level of experience and commitment. Fax resumes to
206-623-8066 or email to Marc Vendetti
on the
Contact Us page.
This
is a busy office, no
phone calls, please.
American Elevator is the Pacific Northwest's oldest,
most established independent and is an equal opportunity
employer.
PRINCIPALS ONLY, no recruiters, ad placement companies or
business service firms please.
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Construction & Modernization Salesperson
General Duties and Overview
- Pursue leads from phone calls and other sources
- Gather pricing information and prepare
estimates
- Create proposals for clients
- Work with sales support to enter new jobs
into system
- Hand off jobs to project managers and
provide support.
- Provide reporting to sales manager
- Provide support to sales assistant and vice versa
- Perform ongoing account management with
current customers to ensure customer satisfaction.
1st level representative in customer complaints or other
issues.
Sales & Project Management Duties
- Selling maintenance, repair and
modernization for a full line of vertical transportation
equipment.
- Contact prospective customers and
schedule appointments according to type of equipment, sales
potential and geographical location. Explain types of
service available and quote cost of servicing equipment.
Explain tasks performed to achieve maximum performance, such
as lubrication, testing, and examination of equipment.
- Review bid documents or site-survey notes
and prepare estimates of equipment to be serviced, repaired,
or modernized and submit documentation to immediate
supervisor for project review.
- Present proposals to customers for
approval.
- Follow up on proposals to answer
questions, overcome objections & close sales.
- Entering sold projects into company information
system
- Order materials & equipment
- Ensure that required materials or equipment will
be delivered on time and project will be completed within
contracted time limits.
- Scheduling work, maintaining/updating the work
schedule
- Troubleshooting technical and other issues
- Visiting job sites to quality-check the work by
others
- Preparing job info packets for the men
- Instructing the shop personnel to prepare the job
boxes, tools & materials
- Dispatching the men to jobs
- Ordering progress/final billings from accounting
dept.
- Checking on job progress - Quality & Productivity
Control
- Scheduling adjusting, closeout and final
inspections
- Selling of service contracts, modernization work
and repairs
- Prepare monthly report of contracts sold,
jobs closed, details of business transactions, and customers
contacted.
- Organizing job paperwork into completed job
files
The person who would excel in this position would
enjoy a fast-paced, dynamic, small-company work environment
where what you do makes a difference. People who excel at
American Elevator generally can handle a higher degree of
independence and responsibility for the profitability and
quality of their work with a minimum of supervision. We have a
close-knit team of people who go out of their way to help each
other out in a true team spirit. You would be working directly
with the company owner and sales manager, Larry Bentley.
This is a salaried position and
is based on experience and performance.
Benefits include full
medical, dental, vision, retirement and a vehicle allowance or vehicle. Annual
bonus with review.
Must have clean driving record, credit and background history.
Qualifications & How to
Apply:
This position requires a minimum of 10 years direct sales experience
in the elevator industry. Please do not apply if you do not
have this level of experience. Fax resumes to 206-623-8066 or
email to Marc Vendetti
on the
Contact Us page.
This
is a busy office, no
phone calls, please.
American Elevator is the Pacific Northwest's oldest,
most established independent and is an equal opportunity
employer.
PRINCIPALS ONLY, no recruiters, ad placement companies or
business service firms please.
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How to get into the elevator trade: |
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apprenticeship program regulated by the Department of Labor and
Industries and run by the elevator union. They have a web
site which explains the program and has a lot of information
about how to register and begin the process. Here is the
link to that site:
http://www.lni.wa.gov/TradesLicensing/Apprenticeship/default.asp
Please do not contact us about getting into
the trade. We can only hire people who are already enrolled
in this
program or who are already in the union. For more information,
contact the local union business office at:
International Union of Elevator Constructors -
Local 19
2112 Thorndyke Ave. W.
Seattle, WA 98155
(206) 282-4885 Toll-Free 1-800-562-5639 Fax
(206) 282-3970
Contact:
Charlie Val
Local 19 Business Agent
For other States without a formal
apprenticeship program, the basic process of getting into the elevator
trade for a union shop goes like this...
You send résumés around to all the elevator companies and
makes sure you have a cell phone number on it so they
can get a hold of you when they need to.
At first, you get hired as a Probationary Helper (Proby) @ 50%
Journeyman's wage and no benefits and you are not yet in the
union. If you can stay employed and get 6 month's worth of
hours logged in a 9 month period of time and complete the
correspondence education, you are eligible to join the
union and move up to 70% scale as a Helper.
Of course, it's not that easy... It's all about
timing, because to get hired as a Proby, there cannot be any 70%
Helpers on the out-of-work list ("The Bench" as it is called),
none, zip... They need to get hired first and
always before any new Probys can be hired. So you have to
wait until the bench is clear of any 70% people and then you
need to be
available on a moment's notice, because you never know when the
call will come. The trade is actually very closed
to total outsiders, most Probys that get hired are someone's
brother or nephew or son or something like that.
It's possible though... and during boom cycles there are lots of Probys who
make it by working on all the
new construction. But the hiring environment fluctuates with the
local economy and you need to keep tabs on if there is anyone on
the bench.
To get into the trade in non-boom times is tougher, but not
impossible. Without knowing anyone you will have the best
chance if you take welding and electrical courses. Being a
certified welder would definitely give you an edge and the
electrical courses would help you get into service and repair
and away from the construction end of the business (unless that
is what you like) which is fraught with injuries. We have
found that good all around auto-mechanics seem to have the right
combination of skills for the trade.
College is not a prerequisite, but good reading, writing,
communication and basic math skills are important. There is a
fine educational program co-sponsored by the union and the employers
which is specific to the knowledge you need to succeed in the
field. It would typically take about 4 years to move
through this curriculum and be able to take the final exam
necessary to become a Journeyman and make the big bucks.
You basically need to be very tenacious and stay in touch with
the employers. Once you get hired as a new Helper, here
are our "Golden Rules" of staying hired & success
in the trade:
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Be reliable- always be
on-time or early |
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Be neat and
clean |
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Have a good attitude
towards everyone and every task. Have the utmost
respect for your trade, it is the best one out there. |
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Keep your driving
record clean and stay out of trouble.
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Anticipate
the needs of the Mechanic you are assigned to work with-
have things ready for him before he has to ask for
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Keep a list of extra things
that need to be done all around you in your shirt pocket
notebook, ready to do when you have a free moment. Keep
things picked-up and tidy for your Mechanic, make your
jobs look good and be safe. |
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Have
a good work ethic, don't be afraid to get dirty and keep
your hands out of your pockets. Always
stay busy. |
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Remember the job priorities
of: Safety 1st --
Quality 2nd --
Speed 3rd |
And if you're serious-- never, ever give up...
you will make
it.
Good luck!
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PS: As of 2003, Helpers are not referred to as Helpers anymore, they are now
"Apprentices" and there are many new steps or levels of Apprentice
pay. But the basic outline of how the hiring process works remains the
same. -AEC
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