Sales and Engineering Intern - McNaughton-McKay

Sales and Engineering Intern

Join the company that helps make American manufacturing possible. You’ll work alongside essential industries such as automotive, plastics, food, beverage and aerospace, while becoming an employee owner through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). As a McNaughton-McKay employee, not only do you help the company succeed, you also share in the rewards.

McNaughton-McKay is a leading wholesale electrical distributor and solutions provider of electrical, automation, and renewable energy products for industrial, commercial, and residential markets.

This industry is providing exciting opportunities for growth and participation in reshaping how the world consumes and utilizes automation.  Efforts to modernize plant automation, data consumption and infrastructure are resulting in large projects for semiconductors, EV manufacturing, mining, battery production and many more markets.

At McNaughton-McKay, we are searching for candidates who want to be part of our team, with opportunities to participate in a fast and growing Automation market!

Sales and Engineering Intern

The Intern will support the internal and external sales/engineering teams with product research, customer quote follow up, house account calls, profit improvement, training coordination, promotion of initiatives, and interaction with manufacturers that provide solutions to McNaughton-McKay customers.

Internship would include:

• Gaining experience and understanding of the industrial automation market including products, processes, customers, specifications, and overall project management.
• Opportunities to meet with customers and visit various facilities.
• Driving new business activities through customer calls and daily quote follow up
• Improving profitability for the sales team through execution of agreement modifications.
• Day to day cross-functional engagement with sales, engineering, operations and other departments and leadership.
• Product training to better understand what McNaughton McKay distributes.
• Supporting current initiatives with the sales team.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities to be successful include:

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering, or similarly related technical field of study (open to Junior and Senior students)
• Previous internship experience preferred, but not required.
• Project management experience via school or internship preferred, but not required.
• Sales interest preferred, but not required.
• Knowledge of - and proficiency in - Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Strong communication and presentations skills

We appreciate your interest in McNaughton-McKay Electric Company.  We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.