Location: Gainseville, TX | Territory: DFW Employment Type: Full-Time | Field-based with [1 day/week] in the office Compensation: $45,000 base + commission | $80,000-$120,000+ realistic first-year earnings Reports To: Director of Operations

About Us

Abel Lumber is a family-owned / independent door, trim, & window supplier serving builders, remodelers, and contractors across Texas. Doors, trim, and windows are what we do — including our own door shop, where we prehang stock units and build custom doors from raw lumber.

That matters for this job. You won't be selling out of a catalog and hoping a vendor comes through. You'll have a shop behind you, people who answer the phone, and the ability to say yes to the odd request your competitor has to decline.

We're big enough to deliver and small enough that you can walk back to the shop and get an answer in five minutes. Decisions get made here, not at a regional office.

What You'll Do

You'll own a territory of builders, remodelers, and contractors — growing the accounts you inherit and opening the ones we don't have yet.

• Call on custom builders, production builders, remodelers, and GCs in your territory
• Take off plans and prepare door, trim, and window quotes — accurately and fast
• Walk jobsites, measure, verify openings, and catch problems before they become backcharges
• Build door and window schedules with customers; guide them on species, profiles, hardware, and lead times
• Open new accounts through cold calls, jobsite stops, referrals, and builder association contacts
• Manage orders from quote through delivery — pricing, change orders, ship dates, and punch-out
• Work directly with our door shop, inside sales, and drivers to keep jobs on schedule
• Handle problems personally when something shows up wrong; own the fix
• Track pipeline, quotes, and follow-ups in CRM
• Stay current on vendor programs, new products, and competitor pricing

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Proven outside sales experience — building materials, millwork, or construction preferred
• Ability to read blueprints and do accurate takeoffs
• Working knowledge of door, trim, and window products (or the construction background to learn them fast)
• Self-directed and organized — nobody is going to build your day for you
• Comfortable on a jobsite, in a builder's trailer, and on the phone at 6:45 AM
• Valid driver's license and clean driving record
• Proficient with [email, quoting software, Excel, CRM]

Preferred:

• Existing builder relationships in DFW
• Experience with multi-family and single family construction
• Background in framing, finish carpentry, estimating, or the trades
• Bilingual [English/Spanish]

Career-changer note: If you've been a superintendent, estimator, or finish carpenter and you know doors and windows cold, we'll consider you. Product knowledge and credibility with builders are harder to teach than sales technique.

Compensation & Benefits

• $45,000 to $60,000 base salary plus commission on net profit / tiered commission structure — no cap
• Realistic first-year total earnings of $80,000 – $95,000; top performers here earn $120,000+
• Company vehicle or vehicle allowance + fuel card
• Laptop provided
• PTO and paid holidays

How to Apply

Send a resume to Dylan.N@abellumber.com, or call Dylan directly at 940-291-8118 — if you're in outside sales, we'd rather hear you make the call.

Abel Lumber is an Equal Opportunity Employer.