Field Sales - Career in Engineering Recruitment
Doncaster
£28,000 starting salary + £2,400 car allowance + 55p per mile + uncapped commission
£36,000 basic salary on progression to Market Specialist - Machining
Build Relationships. Develop a Market. Become the Specialist.
If you're successful in field sales, you already have many of the skills we're looking for.
You know how to meet customers, ask good questions, understand their business, build relationships and create opportunities.
At Ion Tec, you'll use those skills in a different way.
Engineering recruitment.
This isn't a field sales position. We're looking for someone who wants to take their commercial experience into a new profession - while still spending significant time out meeting people and developing relationships face-to-face.
In simple terms, you'll build relationships with engineering companies that need to recruit and skilled engineers considering their next career move. You'll understand what both are looking for, identify where there's a strong match and manage the recruitment process through to successful placement.
But we want you to go much further than simply filling vacancies.
We're looking for someone who can use their sales experience to develop Ion Tec's specialist Machining recruitment market across Yorkshire - and, over time, build and lead the team responsible for it.
You don't need recruitment experience or an engineering background. You need commercial ability, curiosity, resilience and the drive to become exceptionally good at something.
We'll teach you the rest.
What You'll Actually Do
You'll spend time inside engineering and manufacturing businesses, meeting Production Managers, Directors and engineering teams and learning how their businesses operate.
You'll also meet skilled engineers face-to-face, understanding their experience, ambitions and what they're looking for next.
Back in the office, you'll manage the recruitment process - developing relationships, identifying suitable candidates, arranging interviews, managing offers and following assignments through to successful placement.
You'll develop new client relationships, identify recruitment opportunities, and work with manufacturers to understand the people and skills they need.
Your role is to understand both sides of the market and bring the right people together.
When a client employs someone you've introduced, Ion Tec earns a recruitment fee and you earn commission.
Just like field sales, success comes from developing relationships, understanding what people need and creating opportunities. The difference is that instead of selling a product, you're bringing together engineering businesses and talented people.
You'll specialise exclusively in machining, gradually developing genuine knowledge of the sector, its manufacturers and the people who make it work.
The objective is simple: become the person manufacturing companies call when they need machining talent.
The Ion Tec Academy
Your career with Ion Tec begins with four weeks of intensive training through the Ion Tec Academy.
We'll take the commercial and relationship skills you already possess and teach you how to apply them to specialist engineering recruitment.
You'll learn engineering and manufacturing fundamentals, machining, candidate assessment, client development, commercial negotiation, our systems and how to develop your market methodically.
After those first four weeks, you'll begin applying what you've learned on live assignments, meeting candidates and clients, developing your network and generating results of your own.
Progression isn't based simply on time served. Demonstrate the required professional and commercial standard and you'll graduate from the Academy as Market Specialist - Machining, with your basic salary increasing to £36,000.
What Could You Build?
The Academy is the starting point, not the destination.
There's a clear career path for people with the capability and ambition to grow with us:
Academy Associate - Machining - You learn. Quickly.
Market Specialist - Machining - You deliver. Consistently.
Senior Market Specialist - Machining - You own your market.
Head of Machining - You lead.
As you progress, your salary, responsibility and earning opportunity develop with you. At Head of Department level, you'll also earn additional commission based on the performance of the specialist team you've built.
For exceptional performers, that creates the potential to achieve six-figure annual earnings.
The opportunity isn't simply to progress through Ion Tec. It's to build something within it.
Who We're Looking For
You might currently work in field sales, business development, account management, territory sales or technical sales.
The industry you've sold into matters less than the commercial ability you've already demonstrated.
We're looking for someone who is curious, commercially minded, personable, resilient, ambitious and professional - someone who has already proved they can succeed commercially and now wants the opportunity to build something of their own.
About Ion Tec
Founded in 2021 and based in Doncaster, Ion Tec is an ISO 9001-certified specialist engineering and manufacturing recruitment business.
Our ambition is straightforward:
To build Yorkshire's most respected team of engineering market specialists.
Ready?
If you're commercially capable and feel there's more in you than your current career is allowing you to demonstrate, we'd be interested in talking to you.
The opportunity is substantial. So are the expectations.
We're more interested in where you could go than whether you've worked in recruitment before.
Send your CV and we'll arrange a proper conversation - about you, Ion Tec, what we're building and whether we're right for each other.