Application Engineer

General Description

As an Application Engineer you will be responsible for our business area of readychain® and readycable®. Together with customers, you design and configure ready‑to‑install energy chain systems that are individually tailored to a specific application or machine. You demonstrate your organizational talent by coordinating and prioritizing multiple simultaneous projects in different stages. Smart and creative process consulting helps clients reduce costs and improve technology.

With strong communication skills you lead price negotiations, new product introductions, manufacturing initiatives, and customer support.

• Assist with configuration and design of readychain® and readycable® products.
• Perform detailed reviews of customer drawings to identify the best manufacturing approach and cost‑effective component selection.
• Interface with electronics and material suppliers, and internally with sales, to solicit competitive material quotes.
• Calculate material and labor costs, tooling and test requirements, and pricing to support product quotation requests.
• Develop and document assembly drawings and manufacturing processes.
• Coordinate with multiple teams including New Product Introduction, First Article builds, and First Article inspections.
• Communicate with sales and/or customers to ensure their technical needs are met.
• Interact with quality, sales, and customers regarding product quality issues to find the best solution.
• Provide support to the manufacturing teams by resolving technical issues related to the product, assembly process, and tooling.
• Work closely with Process Engineering for continuous improvement of techniques, process documentation, tooling, and assembly aids.
• Coordinate and execute engineering change orders, waivers, deviations, and documentation change orders with assistance from multiple operations teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
• Knowledge of wire harnessing processes, tooling, and industry standards.
• Strong technical skills: ability to present technical concepts and provide customers with hands‑on techniques using our products.
• Self‑starter; motivated, team‑focused, and results driven.
• Strong communication, organizational, and time‑management skills.
• Familiarity with best manufacturing and assembly practices and techniques.
• Familiarity with Item Master and Bill of Materials.
• Demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing engineering discipline, theories, practices, and principles.
• Knowledge necessary to perform the job function, such as understanding of the engineering change order process, product development process, and value engineering.
• Strong product technology, change management, problem solving, communication, customer orientation, personal effectiveness, team skills, and quality.
• Knowledge of CAD tools.
• Additional knowledge of systems and software such as MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Competitive base salary with ongoing growth opportunities
• Complete benefits package:
  • Company‑paid HSA medical plan
  • Company‑paid dental
  • Company‑paid life
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance
  • Retirement with company contributions
• 20 paid time off days per year, plus nine holidays
• Subsidized lunch on‑site