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Overview
This work connects sales with technical knowledge of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment. Representatives respond to inquiries, prepare quotations, demonstrate product features and maintain customer relationships.
In job descriptions, look for hardware, plumbing, heating equipment, product demonstrations, quotation work, customer follow-up, sales reports, CRM software, marketing activity and technical communication with trade customers.
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These representatives sell hardware, plumbing and heating equipment for a business while explaining technical details to customers. The work links prospecting, customer inquiries, fit, function, quotations and customer follow-up.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes product comprehension, technical communication, requests for quotation, demonstrations, CRM records, sales reports, marketing actions and sustained customer relationships in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment.
Salary context
Pay context depends on the hardware, plumbing and heating range, trade-customer responsibility, quotation volume, product-fit advice, account follow-up and any showroom or field-sales duties.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward trade account management, heating or plumbing product specialist work, branch sales leadership, supplier sales support or commercial roles in building-service products.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name plumbing, heating or hardware categories, customer type, quote handling, product matching, CRM tools, branch or field work and supplier contact.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is solar energy sales consultant.
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The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 2
Sales Engineers
41-9031.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETSales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
41-4011.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to many ESCO occupations.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Mapping project version 1: O*NET-SOC 2019 → ESCO 1.1.0. Targets are validated against ESCO 1.2.1.
Source: European Commission, joint ESCO Secretariat and USDOL/ETA project. O*NET Database: USDOL/ETA. This presentation uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.84Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
Alternative labels
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plumbing and heating equipment
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Occupation group
technical sales representative (2433.6)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4a13bafa-a2ac-4864-a278-176ea5969280 |
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| ESCO code | 2433.6.3 |
| ISCO group | 2433 |
| Concept type | Occupation |