Application Engineer - Parts and Product Mgmt

Job Details

Job Location:

UCC Libertyville - Libertyville, IL 60048

Salary Range: $72,000.00 - $80,000.00 Salary/year

Join UCC Environmental, a leader in sustainable technology solutions:

Looking for a career where your work has real impact? At UCC Environmental, you’ll join a company built on solving complex industrial challenges while advancing sustainable solutions for air, water, and solids handling around the world.

We’re a privately held, family-owned business with more than a century of experience supporting mission-critical industries. Our teams work with utility power providers and heavy industrial customers globally, delivering innovative solutions in environmental compliance, material handling, and high-performance aftermarket technologies.

At UCC Environmental, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, global team that values technical expertise, problem-solving, and long-term customer relationships. With continued growth across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, we offer opportunities to contribute meaningfully to an expanding international business.

Headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois, UCC owns and operates sales, manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing facilities across the United States, Canada, Germany, India, and China. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter, your work has purpose, and your career can grow alongside a global organization, UCC Environmental could be the right fit!

The Application Engineer serves as the technical bridge between the Parts Sales team (inside sales support, organized by region) and the Product Management team (technical sales support, organized by product family). It provides first-line technical support for parts identification, competitor cross-referencing, and non-standard, retrofit, and performance-parts quotations.

The position exists to accelerate quote turnaround for the Parts Application Specialists and Field Sales Offices while protecting Product Engineer capacity for the product-development roadmap. The Application Engineer triages incoming technical requests — resolving those within scope and routing genuine design or engineering work to the appropriate Product Engineer — and helps convert technical opportunities into booked parts sales.

This is an entry-level engineering position and a deliberate development path into the Product Engineer role. Through daily exposure to UCC products, drawings, pricing, and customer applications — and structured mentorship from the Product Engineers — the Application Engineer builds the product and engineering depth required to progress onto the Product Management team.

• Technical part identification & cross-referencing:
  Serve as the first-line technical resource for identifying service parts from UCC contract, standard, and vendor drawings, and for competitor cross-referencing that supports retrofit opportunities. Respond to application inquiries from the Parts Application Specialists (PAS) and Field Sales Offices. Process part-number add requests and Engineering Work Requests as needed.
• Non-standard, retrofit & performance-parts quotation support:
  Own the technical review and pricing coordination for non-standard, retrofit, and performance-parts quotations — the work that sits between a standard PAS quote and full Product Engineer engineering. Coordinate with Product Engineers for product-family pricing and with PAS for quote generation and order entry in AX.
• Technical request triage & routing:
  Act as the central intake point for technical questions from PAS and Field Sales. Resolve requests within scope, and route true design or engineering work to the appropriate Product Engineer. Track request volume, turnaround, and disposition, and publish a periodic summary.
• Growth-opportunity & data support:
  Support the Performance Parts Opportunity (PPO) log and the competitor-retrofit funnel operationally — feeding quotes to PAS and product ideas to Product Engineers. Maintain cross-reference data, Standard Product List content, and the technical portions of Contract Spare Parts (CSP) lists. Contribute technical “Did You Know” content to the Selling Boldly program.
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