Outside Sales Engineer
Growing HVAC
Outside Sales Engineer
Location: Central PA
Compensation: Negotiable base plus commission | Glide path to 100% commission where dollar for dollar sold you will make more money than base plus
Travel: Home-based in your territory, with occasional travel to the home office for collaboration and support.
About the Role:
You’ll own a territory as an outside sales engineer for a growing manufacturers’ rep firm, selling commercial HVAC equipment by winning specifications with consulting engineers and earning the business of mechanical, service, and design-build contractors. This is real business development — you’ll dig in, build relationships from the ground up, get your products named as basis of design, and win substitutions where you’re not. The line rewards consultative selling: you win by getting spec’d and building genuine relationships, not by coasting on products that move themselves.
This is a strong fit for someone early-to-mid in their sales-engineering career who’s hungry, money-motivated, and wants to build something. You’ll step into a territory with strong, largely untapped accounts available now — not a decades-long wait behind senior reps for the good accounts — with real room to grow into a market or office leader over time. You’ll run your territory with autonomy and remote support from an experienced, hands-on team.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own and grow a territory, selling commercial HVAC equipment across the full product line
- Call on consulting and MEP engineers to win basis of design and get your products specified
- Build relationships with mechanical, service, and design-build contractors and earn their business
- Chase and close service-replacement and design-build opportunities for a shorter sales cycle
- Prospect and develop new accounts from the ground up — this is a business-development role, not order-taking
- Protect your specs from substitution, and push substitutions where a competitor holds the spec
- Coordinate submittals, selections, and pricing with inside sales and application engineering to move deals forward
- Manage your pipeline and forecast across a longer plan-and-spec cycle
About You:
- A few years of HVAC equipment sales experience, or a technical / application-engineering background ready to step into outside sales
- An engineering foundation (mechanical or related) — enough to speak credibly with consulting engineers
- Strong with consulting engineers, or the relationships and drive to get there fast — this is what moves the needle quickest; a mix of engineer and contractor selling is welcome
- If you’re contractor-focused, the appetite and skill to work service and design-build, not just wait for spec’d jobs to come to you
- A true hunter — self-sufficient, money-motivated, and comfortable building a territory largely on your own
- Ready for the ownership and pace of a lean, high-upside rep firm, where you carry deals end to end
- Comfortable working remotely with support from an experienced team, plus occasional travel to the home office
What We Offer:
- Uncapped commission with a base that steps down as your book builds — and a commission rate that never changes
- A strong, largely untapped account base to grow into from day one, instead of waiting behind senior reps for the good accounts
- High autonomy to run your territory your way, backed by remote support from an experienced, hands-on team
- A real path to grow into a market or office leadership role as the territory develops
- Direct access to the firm’s partners in a lean, high-upside environment where your effort drives your income
- A company card to cover your travel expenses