Application Development Engineer

Location

This role can be fully remote as long as you live near a regional airport.

Directly contributes to the execution of AEC’s strategic plans and overall growth of AEC by being a primary interface for Engineering, R&T and AEC’s Business Development organization to drive insertion of composite material based emerging technologies into applications. This individual will identify and drive internal and customer facing activities to accelerate AEC’s profitable growth through technology differentiation. Achieving this requires establishing and maintaining outstanding relationships with agreed target customers, AEC senior leadership and collaboratively working with AEC’s Engineering, Customer and Marketing organization to strengthen AEC’s brand in the marketplace.

In performing their respective tasks and duties, all employees are expected to adhere to Albany’s current values:
Albany Wins Together, Count on Each Other, Own Your Actions, Care About Each Other, and Share Your Enthusiasm. Safety must always come first; we never compromise on safety for the sake of achieving another objective. Employees are also responsible for the health and safety of themselves and each other.

• Composite structures technical lead in capturing new opportunities and leading application developments for AEC’s new and emerging technologies with new customers; and primary technical interface to AEC Business Development organization on efforts to insert our new and emerging technologies with existing customers on either current or new platforms
• Contributes directly to the execution of customer and internally funded development projects aimed at TRL 4-7 applications
  • Responsible for developing technical scopes of work, proposals, and directional production pricing targets to drive adoption of AEC’s technologies
  • Provides technical leadership and support to project engineers during project execution
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with targeted key customers to identify:
• customer needs where AEC’s unique technology can be leveraged to provide a solution
• new programs that provide the best opportunity to insert AEC’s unique technologies in the near
• intermediate and long term opportunities where our customers’ and AEC’s R&D activities could complement each other through collaboration
• Works collaboratively with AEC’s Business Development organization to ensure that engagements with customers lead to a common vision and value for AEC
• Supports the strengthening of AEC’s brand in the marketplace through industry and trade show engagements
• Contributes to AEC’s technical organization as a recognized leader in composite materials and processes knowledge base across the organization
• Supports the ongoing direction of AEC’s technologies focus areas by aligning the voice of the customer with AEC’s growth strategies

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Supervisors are responsible for overseeing their work group including but not limited to: formal evaluations/performance management as set out by the organization, recruitment, and developing

• 7 or more years of progressively responsible composite industry Engineering, Sales, and/or Marketing experience in an engineered products business required.
• The ideal candidate will have experience in CMC(Ceramic Matrix Composites), Hypersonic and Advanced Electronics.
• Undergraduate degree, preferably in Business or Engineering, required. Advanced business or technical degree preferred but is not required.
• Special consideration will be given to applicants who also have experience or training in aerospace composites or textile manufacturing with an understanding of the mechanics and strength of materials.
• Demonstrated experience working directly or through collaboration in an R&T environment and/or organization.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver exceptional results within a relatively unstructured, tightly resourced, high-growth organization would be a significant competitive advantage.
• Strong working knowledge of the development and qualification/certification process in the aerospace industry as the pathway for new engineered products production…