Applications Engineer

Application Engineer

The Application Engineer turns the solution into a buildable, priced system. Whether the concept comes from a Solutions Engineer or from the Application Engineer reading the RFP directly, the equipment, the layout, the manifest and the number are the Application Engineer's. The Application Engineer is our expert on Fives equipment and how it applies. On pursuits where the operation itself has to be designed, a Solutions Engineer sets the flow, the rates and the block layout, and the Application Engineer equips it.

On everything else, including replacements, expansions, defined-scope RFP responses and repeat work, the Application Engineer carries the pursuit from the specification through to the priced proposal.

Innovation – We create a culture of relentless improvement of solutions and processes to make every day better.

Integrity – We are open, honest, and committed to giving the straight story every time.

Service – We serve our clients, families, communities, and most importantly our people who are empowered and safe in making decisions and taking actions that dare to make us better.

Ownership – We take full, personal, individual responsibility for our actions and our work.

Intake & Qualification

• Give the technical feasibility read on bid/no-bid. The commercial decision sits above this department.

• Decide how Fives equipment answers the requirement, and size and select it to hit throughput, product profile and operating hours at a price that wins.

• Own the detailed layout in Sketch Up and AutoCAD.

• Own the system manifest and equipment list.

• Build the complete mechanical estimate for the scope: material and installation labor, at the most economical configuration that satisfies the requirement.

• Develop the bill of material.

• Document cost drivers, assumptions, exclusions and risk allowances well enough that another engineer can review the estimate without rebuilding it.

• Author the Cost Review Document.

• Own the technical narrative: scope of work, description of operation, clarifications and exceptions.

• Obtain and evaluate vendor and subcontractor pricing, and recommend selection.

• Hand execution a package they can build from: the reasoning and assumptions, not only the drawings.

Contributes to:

Reviewing the RFP, contract and statement of work for risk

Protecting the project budget and gross margin

Customer operational data analysis

Process and material flow design across functional areas

Block-level layout and technology class per area

Third-party and partner selection

Technology feasibility evaluation

Standard-hours and cost-data studies

Estimating tool and SAP improvement

Specification compliance and acceptance criteria

Risk assessment

Customer meetings with Sales

The technical basis for acceptance criteria and test procedures

Technical support to the Project Manager in early phases

Partner They bring You keep

Solutions Engineer The operation design: process and material flow, rates, block layout, and the technology class in each area The equipment, the detailed layout, the manifest and the estimate

Senior Application Engineer / Senior Electrical Estimating Engineer The estimating standard, rates and cost data, and review and sign-off The estimate on your bid

Electrical Estimating Engineer Electrical and controls architecture and the electrical estimate The mechanical scope and how the two fit together

Offering Manager Proposal schedule, bid strategy, workload prioritization The technical content and its quality

Operations / Project Management Acceptance criteria and field execution of the test The technical basis the criteria are built on

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 5 to 8 years in applications engineering, estimating, or industrial system design.

Required:

demonstrated ownership of material and labor estimates for capital equipment or industrial systems.

Preferred, not required: material handling,…