Technical Service Representative

**Date**:Feb 18, 2025

**Location**: Burnaby, CA

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

© 2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.

**Job Placement**:
**Job Purpose**:
The Technical Service Representative (TSR) provides a differential marketing advantage for AkzoNobel by delivering technical services to all customers within an assigned area. They support the sales team by conducting technical reviews, product trials and providing consultative services to customers, distributors, and prospects. They also provide both technical analysis, process analysis, and recommendations where appropriate.

**Total Compensation**:

- Annual base Salary of $80,000.00 to $95,000.00
- 15% Bonus based on personal and corporate performance.
- Vehicle Allowance of $800/monthly + KM reimbursement
- 3 weeks’ vacation + 5 personal/Sick days + 2 company determined floater days.
- Pension Plan
- Benefits including Drug, Medical, Life Insurance, Paramedical (including massage) an more.
- Employee Assistance Program
- Telemedicine
- Physical Fitness Reimbursement

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Participates in the selling process by assisting with product trials.

**Job Requirements**:

- English: read, spoken and written
- AMPP, NACE I, Frosio Inspector III or equivalent
- Must have previous experience working in a Shipyard (5+ years preferred)
- Good computer skills, well versed in Microsoft Office (Word and Excel) and is computer literate enough to navigate user friendly web-based programs.
- Must be able to travel to the USA if required.

**Physical Requirements**:

- Ascending, Descending and/or Balancing: (ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms).
- Balancing - maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces).
- Stooping, Kneeling, Crouching and/or Crawling: (Stooping - bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist). (Kneeling - bending legs at knees to come to
- rest on knee or knees). (Crouching - bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine). (Crawling - moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet). May
- need to crawl into/out of confined spaces.
- Reaching, Handling, Fingering, and/or Feeling: (Reaching - extending the hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction). (Handling - seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise
- working with hand or hands (fingering not involved)). (Fingering - picking, pinching, or otherwise working with fingers primarily (rather than with whole hand or arm as in
- handling). (Feeling - perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by means of receptors in skin, particularly those of fingertips).
- Seeing: The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. The important aspects of vision are:
a. Acuity, far - clarity of vision at 20 feet or more.
b. Acuity, near - clarity of vision at 20 inches or less.
c. Depth Perception - three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distance and space relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.
d. Field of Vision - area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point.
e. Accommodation - adjustment of lens of eye to bring an object into sharp focus. This item is especially important when doing near-point work at varying distances from eye.
f. Color Vision - ability to identify and distinguish colors.

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 44955 #LI-KT1