Foundry and Machine Shop Products Sales Representative

As a Foundry and Machine Shop Sales Representative, you sell casting services, machined components, or metalworking products to manufacturers. Your customers need metal parts — castings, machined components, or related products — for their own manufacturing or products. You need technical knowledge of metalworking processes and the ability to work with engineering customers.

Your day involves customer visits and technical consultation. You might tour a customer's facility to understand their needs, review part prints and specifications, discuss capabilities with your operations team, prepare quotes, and follow up on opportunities. Technical conversations with customer engineers are common. You also manage existing accounts for quality, delivery, and relationship issues.

The hardest part is the technical complexity and long sales cycles. Parts often require custom engineering, tooling investment, and qualification processes before production. Sales cycles can span months. You need enough technical depth to discuss metallurgy, tolerances, and manufacturing processes credibly. The people who thrive here have genuine technical interest, patience for complex sales, and enjoy working with manufacturing customers.