Inside Sales Associate - Estimator

About us

McMillan James Equipment Company (MJEC) is a manufacturers’ representative offering commercial HVAC, plumbing, hydronics, and controls equipment—along with expert service, startup support, and a complete range of OEM and aftermarket parts to customers across Texas and beyond.

Position Summary:

You will be responsible for equipment selection, estimating and generating proposals. Other duties will include preparing submittals, equipment order entry and management of ship dates for each project. Individual must be detail and customer service oriented and have excellent organizational skills. Position requires a high level of oral and written correspondence with the sales team, customers and manufacturers to ensure timely completion of assigned projects while maintaining customer satisfaction. Individual must be able to work well with others in a fast-paced & high-volume environment.

Essential Job Functions

• Take off and estimate Air Solutions jobs per McMillan James standards, adhering to process and documentation requirements.
• Determine project requirements, constraints, and responsibilities to meet all of the customer’s system design, installation and maintenance requirements.
• Work with salesperson to create and maintain job files for each job throughout its duration.
• Support salesperson on assigned projects in order to optimize the job through the stages of product selection, specifications, reviewing plans, estimates, proposals, value engineering and redesigns.
• Manage multiple projects on an ongoing basis.
• Responsible for preparing correct project related data information and equipment for order entry.
• Must be able to read understand and interpret building plans & specs and be familiar with common system designs.
• Continuously aim for improvement of technical product knowledge, selection knowledge, estimate precision, quality and speed.