Our client, a global leader in unique component manufacturing, is looking for the perfect blend of personality and technical expertise to ensure customer needs are understood and followed throughout the entire product lifecycle. As an application engineer, you’ll utilize your strong technical background and superior communication ability to handle everything from collecting market & customer feedback to testing & design review with engineers to assisting internal sales teams with technical proposals that drive new business.
Your Mission
- Deeply research, test, analyze and understand off-highway mobile power systems for multiple applications and industries
- During development, work cross functionally with sales team and engineering to ensure customer needs are met while contributing to technical proposals that drive new business
- Provide technical training, assessments and documentation to support sales team
- While staying abreast of market patterns and changes, create & complete risk assessments in order to forecast future opportunities
- Perform in-depth inspections of all products, including returns and installations
- Utilize root-cause analysis to develop & implement corrective action plans
- Deliver product inspection report to customers
- Champion design reviews including updating documentation & specifications and obtaining formal customer approval
- Examine and investigate recurring product problems or failures
- Continually look for opportunities to improve processes and reduce cost via changes in materials, vendors and overall product design
- Propose suggestions to senior leadership to add to, remove from and/or make adjustments to the current product line
- Leverage data, face-to-face time with customers and background expertise to make educated decisions
- As an expert in the competition, assist sales & marketing personnel with the development of technical documentation and marketing content
- Regularly report on project progress to senior leadership
- Travel up to 50%, some international
A Few Qualifiers
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or similar discipline
- Hands-on experience with hydraulics, drives and other components
- High level of technical expertise with the ability to write technical reports & documents
- Machine testing experience preferred
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
