Senior Application Engineer

Senior Application Engineer

Senior Application Engineer

BH Job
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SF Job Req r Application Engineer

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Job Title:

Sr Application Engineer

Location:

Ocala, FL

About Us:

Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies - from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers - to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability.

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Job Overview:

The Senior Application Engineer is the technical authority responsible for supporting customers, sales teams, and channel partners with engineering expertise in compressed air purification and gas generation systems. This role provides advanced product selection, system design support, sizing calculations, and technical proposals for air treatment equipment such as desiccant dryers, refrigerated dryers, filtration systems, condensate management, and onsite gas generation. This position also plays a key role in driving solution accuracy, improving engineering tools, and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

Application & Technical Support:

* Provide expert-level application guidance on compressed air and gas treatment solutions.

* Select and size air dryers, filtration, and gas generation equipment based on customer operating conditions, ISO 8573.1 requirements, dew point specifications, and environmental factors.

* Evaluate customer data on pressure, flow, inlet temperature, ambient conditions, and contamination levels to recommend optimal solutions.

* Review engineering drawings, P&IDs, and customer specifications to ensure compliance and identify risks or deviations.

Proposal & Solution Development:

* Prepare detailed technical proposals, system schematics, tender responses, and custom configuration documents.

* Develop system layouts including dryers, filters, aftercoolers, condensate drains, receivers, controls, and interconnecting piping.

* Perform dew point calculations, purge air calculations, and pressure drop estimations.

* Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to ensure feasibility of custom configurations.

Cross Functional

Collaboration:

* Work closely with Sales, Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Service, and Quality to support winning project bids.

* Provide technical input for New Product Introduction (NPI) and voice-of-customer data.

* Assist Field Service with complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.

* Support Operations with technical clarification needed for build to order systems.

Customer Interaction & Training:

* Participate in customer meetings, technical workshops, onsite assessments, and presentations.

* Deliver training to distributors, internal teams, and customers on air treatment technologies, system balancing, and proper installation.

* Build credibility through responsive, accurate, and high?quality technical communication.

Documentation & Continuous Improvement:

* Maintain and improve sizing tools, configurators, technical databases, and engineering templates.

* Develop standard work, application guides, and best?practice documents for internal and external use.

* Mentor junior application…