Automation Specialist

Why Turtle?
At Turtle, you will play a key role in our goal to listen, learn, and help customers in need.

With over 900 employees, spanning across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, we believe that our people are our most valuable assets.

Through our culture of innovation, education, and accountability, we ensure to create a space where everyone matters.

We believe that EVERYONE can do extraordinary things and our mission is to create a workplace that empowers our employees to be successful.

This is why our history spans over 100 years and has led to our standing as one of the nation’s largest independent electrical industrial distributors.

We believe that by making the right choices, we can find the right solutions.

That’s how we built our past, and that’s how we’ll build our future.

About the Role

The Automation Specialist role is a commercial and technical resource that is focused on the industrial automation portfolio of products and services.

This role supports customers and offices in northern New Jersey, the lower Hudson Valley, and NYC metropolitan areas including Nassau and Suffolk counties.

This position is full Time – Average 3 days per week travel in NYC metro area.

This position provides support to internal and external customers primarily in the areas of variable frequency drives (VFD’s), motion control, and programmable logic controllers (PLC’s).

This support includes providing technical knowledge in the use of automation products as well as trouble-shooting support, acting as a liaison between customers and Rockwell Automation.

In addition, the role will include education of internal and external customers through webinars and on-site interactions.

These presentations aim to educate customers on new and existing products and services.

You will use your knowledge of the local business and competitive landscape to provide industrial automation solutions to customers.

What You'll Do

Sales Leadership


* Plan and execute the annual commercial business growth including target account selection and pursuit, maintain technical competency, and identify future business investments.


* Articulate the value of Rockwell’s Mechatronic offering, engage in value discussions of rotary motion offerings (including independent cart and robotics), sell customer outcomes at all levels of the customer, develop third party vendor and delivery partners.


* Customer-centric business advocate


* The performance of this specialist group is judged on the revenue performance of the assigned product segments.

Candidate demonstrates ability to work independently and is self-motivated.

Technical


* You will be a technical liaison between Rockwell Automation, the distributor, and customers, providing technical, marketing, and commercial leadership for sales growth.


* The Mechatronics Specialist is the domain expert and point of contact for customers when supporting the Mechatronics portfolio, which includes E...