Applications Engineer

Job description

Responsibilities :

Support the business development team by developing technically robust proposals and concepts tailored to specific customer requests.

Collaborate with sales, engineering, and management to ensure a thorough understanding of customer needs, focusing on design and automation solutions.

This position plays a significant role in the achievement of corporate sales goals and objectives, additional duties include visiting customers occasionally, performing the initial development of projects, tracking quotation cost performance, and maintaining positive customer relationships.

• Create 2D / 3D design concepts, cost estimates, and written proposals for custom automated machines and production lines.
• Work with customers and internal sales team to ensure that equipment specifications and requirements are well understood to ensure quotes address customer needs and priorities.
• Collaborate with the engineering team(s), Project Managers, and the Applications Engineering Manager to research and develop concepts and proposals relative to specific customer requests.
• Support internal project kick-off meetings by ensuring all required project information is collected and communicated to the project team providing a thorough understanding of the project scope.
• Support customer kick-off meetings by communicating an accurate, detailed, and organized review of the quoted equipment and project scope.
• Respond to all assigned proposal inquiries in a timely manner.
• Actively participate in proposal review meetings with the assigned Project Manager and Engineers to ensure clear communication of the customer’s requirements and the commitments made by the company.
• Work with the entire business development team to coordinate the company’s participation at trade shows and in advertising media, ensuring that the company presents a strong and consistent message.
• Actively participate in the creative exchange of ideas to enhance the company’s research and development efforts developing an ongoing awareness of new technologies and trends in the marketplace that may be useful in solving customer problems.
• Ensure that regular and open communication takes place with other functional departments regarding the coordination and planning for both active and future customers.

Requirements

Qualifications and Requirements :

• B.S. degree in Engineering.
• Prefer 3+ years of mechanical design or concept design experience.
• Prior experience with development of proposals, cost estimates, quotes and applications with custom turnkey automation systems.
• Experience with PLC, VFD, HMI, Servo, Motion Control, Control Networks and other industrial automation technologies and applications.
• Demonstrated experience creating 2D / 3D concept and design drawings in a CAD software. Prefer experience with SolidWorks.
• Ability to occasionally travel to customer, supplier, and / or inter-company sites via vehicle or airplane (both domestic and international)
• Able to work in the US without sponsorship.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Short term disability

Long term disability

Life Insurance (with buy up option)

401K

Profit-sharing