Employment Opportunities

L.N. Curtis & sons is an employer interested in employees with long-term ambitions. Our average years-of-service is 15+ years. Our employees are our family and it's important to us to take care of them. Our benefits are excellent and our salaries are commensurate with skills and experience.

Please find below the details of available positions in our growing company.

Three (3) positions currently open.

May 2008
Rescue Tool Specialist – Northern California and Western Nevada

Do you get excited when someone wants to talk about Rescue Tools?  Do you think you can explain how Rescue Tools help emergency responders perform their duties successfully and safely?  Are you mature, hard working, and able to help others be successful?  Have you done training or teaching?

This is a very unique position for a person that has a strong passion for Emergency Responder Rescue Tools and is able to educate others.  The person in this position works closely with L.N. Curtis & sons sales representatives, and their customers, developing new business, training, and working with our partner suppliers.

The ideal candidate would posses the following qualities:

• A relentless desire to be the best at what you do.
• The ability to manipulate equipment in excess of 60 lbs.
• The willingness to travel away from home and work long hours, including working outdoors in various weather extremes.
• Knowledge of rescue struts, hydraulic tools, air lifting bags and saws.
• Proven ability to follow through on ALL customer and sales representatives requests.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively, and promptly, with customers and sales representatives via verbal and written means.
• Excellent time management, organizational skills, and ability to plan weeks, and months in advance.
• Provide solutions, be assertive, proactive, and have the courage to take initiative to effect change.
• Exceptional presentation skills, understand Socratic selling.
• Able to clarify, analyze, overcome customer objections, and effectively decide on good solutions for all parties involved.
• General computer skills to include competence with Word documents, PDF, Power Point, and Outlook.
• Bachelor’s degree, or proven work history and success in the realm of Rescue Tools.

Excellent salary and benefits, which include health insurance, dental insurance, long term disability insurance, paid holidays, vacation pay, and 401(k) plan.

Candidates interested in this opportunity should email their expression of interest to:

Brian Livingston – Rescue Tool Specialist Manager
blivingston@lncurtis.com

April 2008
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Specialist, Full Time
Intermountain (Utah, Wyoming, Montana, So. Idaho and Eastern Nevada)

Do you get excited when someone wants to talk about turnout gear?  Do you think you can explain how PPE works to protect emergency responders?  Are you mature, hard working, and able to help others be successful?  Have you performed training or teaching?

This is a very unique position for a person that has a strong passion for emergency responder PPE and is able to educate others.  The person in this position works closely with L.N. Curtis & sons sales representatives, and their customers, developing new business, training, and working with our partner suppliers.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualities:

• A relentless desire to be the best at what you do.
• The willingness to travel away from home and work long hours.
• Knowledge of turnout clothing, helmets, boots, gloves, EMS clothing, and wildland clothing.
• Proven ability to follow through on ALL customer and sales representatives requests.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively, and promptly, with customers and sales representatives via verbal and written means.
• Excellent time management, organizational skills, and ability to plan weeks, and months in advance.
• Provide solutions, be assertive, proactive, and have the courage to take initiative to effect change.
• Exceptional presentation skills.
• Understand Socratic selling.
• Able to clarify, analyze, and effectively decide on good solutions for all parties involved.
• General computer skills to include competence with Word documents, PDF, Power Point, and Outlook.
• Bachelor’s degree, or proven work history and success in the realm of PPE.
• Excellent salary and benefits, which include health insurance, dental insurance, long term disability insurance, paid holidays, vacation pay, and 401 (k) plan.

Candidates interested in this opportunity should email or fax their expression of interest to:

Contact: 
Mark Dolim – PPE Specialist Manager
Fax:  510-839-0219
mdolim@lncurtis.com
www.lncurtis.com

March 2008
Inside Sales Professional
Seattle, Washington

L.N. Curtis & sons, a worldwide leader in the Fire and Rescue equipment industry since 1929, has an exciting opportunity in our Seattle Washington office for an: INSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE

The person in this position will work closely with outside sales representatives managing existing accounts, developing new business and handling heavy incoming sales calls from new and existing customers.  We are dedicated to providing world-class customer service. The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:

• The ability to follow through on all client and account representatives’ requests within allotted time period.
• Communicate effectively to customers verbally, via e-mail or phone.
• Must have excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Assertive, proactive and takes initiative to effect change.
• Able to handle heavy phone volume of inbound and outbound calls.
• General customer service skills with the ability to overcome objections.
• Must be able to analyze situations and effectively decide on a good business solution for all parties involved.
• HIGH ENERGY and a GREAT ATTITUDE A MUST!
• General computers skills.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Posses the desire to exceed customer expectations.

Excellent salary and benefits, which include paid holidays, vacation and a 401 (k) plan.

For immediate consideration please email your resume and cover letter to jcefalu@lncurtis.com Phone calls will not be accepted.