Fire Protection Sales Representative

Position Fire Protection Sales Representative Company Columbia Fire, LLC Location Seattle, Washington in person, based at our Seattle office.

This position is not remote or hybrid.

Reports To Contract Division Manager Employment Type Full-time, salaried, exempt Experience Level Experienced.

This is not an entry-level or trainee position.

Fire protection experience is required.

Bargaining Unit Non-union position.

Columbia Fire is a Local 699 union sprinkler contractor and our fire sprinkler field positions are in the bargaining unit.

This position is not.

Incentive Eligibility Eligible for the Columbia Fire Standard Sales Incentive Plan (commission).

See Compensation.

Travel Daily local travel throughout greater Seattle and the Puget Sound region.

Occasional overnight travel as Columbia Fire bids work in markets outside Seattle.

ABOUT COLUMBIA FIRE Columbia Fire, LLC is a Seattle-based fire protection contractor founded in 2005.

We design, install, inspect, test, service, and repair fire sprinkler and fire alarm systems for general contractors, developers, building owners, and property managers across the Puget Sound region.

We are a Local 699 union sprinkler contractor.

Columbia Fire is part of Columbia Safety Services, LLC, a multi-state regional fire and life safety company.

Our operating companies and offices: Columbia Fire, LLC Seattle, WAValley Fire Control, LLC Albany and Newport, OR, and Spokane, WA, with an office in St Maries, IDFFF Protection Greater Boise, with an office in Nampa, ID We are building something long-term and formidable: a fire and life safety platform that operates well, invests in its people, and keeps its word.

Our core values guide how we operate: Customer First, Grit, Effective Communication, Own the Outcome, Take Pride in the Work, and Do the Right Thing.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS Today, bid coverage in Seattle is set by capacity rather than by choice.

Takeoff and estimating sit with a small group and with operations leaders who already carry full workloads, so the bids that get answered are the ones that fit in the gaps.

Work we should win gets no-bid, gets priced late, or gets priced by someone who never walked the building.

General contractors and owners we want a real relationship with get a number from us instead of a person.

This seat exists to own the front end of the fire sprinkler business in Seattle: find the work, walk it, take it off, price it, sell it, and hand a clean and accurate scope to the project team.

It is a sales seat but a sales seat for someone who can do the technical work behind the number.

THE OPPORTUNITY Columbia Fire has been in the Seattle market since 2005 with a union field force and a reputation we intend to keep.

You will sell new construction and tenant improvement sprinkler work, design/build and plan-and-spec, plus the service, inspection, deficiency repair, and retrofit work that comes with an installed base.

Inspection and service are where the group is investing, and there is re...