Applications Engineer

Applications Engineer

Every day in 25 countries, we (9,000 people) create the sustainable solutions the world needs by inventing the technologies of tomorrow across the entire spectrum of industry: from metallurgy to advanced logistics, from cement plants to the tech industry, from the IoT to aerospace. By Joining Fives, you'll become an entrepreneur who is involved in the design and management of the project from start to finish.

Come and work with a group of passionate women and men, proud to be pioneers and above all proud to make the world move forward.

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.

Character qualifications:
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.

Essential duties & responsibilities:

• Intake & qualification
• Solution development
• Estimating & cost
• Proposal assembly
• Customer & supply
• Execution & turnover

Qualifications:

• Education and experience
• Skills

Travel:
Travel to customer offices, vendor plants and job sites, typically under 25%. Occasional international travel for site visits or training.

Progression:
The Application Engineer is the core technical role in Solutions Engineering. Most of what this department sends to a customer is an Application Engineer's work. The role has four levels:
Junior Application Engineer, Application Engineer, Senior Application Engineer and Principal Application Engineer. Advancement to Senior Application Engineer or Solutions Engineer. It comes from Owning Complete Estimates Without Correction and Passing This Discipline's Method Review. None of these levels manages people. Line management is a separate route, through Supervisor, Manager and Director of Applications Engineering, open by choice rather than by seniority.

Physical demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.

The employee frequently is required to walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Travel via automobile and/or commercial airline to customer offices for meetings, vendor's plants, and job site to coordinate the conveyors or equipment with the building and installers.

Work environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, and risk of radiation.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, unless performing work in shop or field conditions.