Application Engineer - Equilibar

Application Engineer
- Equilibar

Equilibar
- Fletcher, North Carolina

Position Type:
Full Time

Application Engineer – Equilibar

Location:

Fletcher, North Carolina

Reports To:

Sales Director, Equilibar

The Position:

The Application Engineer – Equilibar serves as a primary technical resource for customers, sales teams, and channel partners, helping identify and implement effective pressure control and fluid system solutions. This role is responsible for providing application expertise, technical consultation, and product guidance that support customer success, business growth, and the continued adoption of Equilibar technologies across a wide range of industries and applications.

Serving as a defining first impression and key contact between customers and the engineering organization, the Application Engineer approaches customer problems with curiosity and ownership. They provide technical sales execution through application analysis, solution development, product configuration, and quotation support. This position works directly with customers to understand process requirements, operating conditions, performance objectives, regulatory considerations, and project constraints to recommend the best products and solutions.

This role collaborates closely with Sales, Design Engineering, Operations, and Manufacturing to develop technical recommendations, support custom solutions, and ensure customer requirements are effectively translated into product and application solutions.

In addition to customer-facing responsibilities, this role provides valuable market and application intelligence by identifying emerging industry trends, new application opportunities, and evolving customer requirements. The position supports product management, marketing, and engineering teams by providing feedback that helps guide product development, market expansion, and strategic growth initiatives.

The Applications Engineer serves as a trusted technical advisor and problem solver, balancing customer needs, engineering considerations, and commercial objectives to deliver successful technical outcomes. This role is ideally suited for an engineer who enjoys customer interaction, application problem-solving, and translating complex technical challenges into practical solutions while contributing to the growth of innovative fluid control technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Applications & Technical Solutions:
Serve as a primary technical resource for customers, providing application expertise and engineering guidance to identify effective pressure control and fluid system solutions. Work directly with customers to understand process requirements, operating conditions, performance objectives, and system constraints, translating technical challenges into practical product recommendations.

Support customers throughout the sales process by evaluating application requirements, providing technical consultation, and ensuring recommended solutions align with customer objectives, industry requirements, and Equilibar product capabilities.

• Quotation & Opportunity Development:
Develop accurate and timely technical quotations by interpreting customer specifications, application requirements, and engineering constraints. Utilize established engineering and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools to configure products, assess feasibility, and support commercial decision-making.

Manage multiple customer opportunities simultaneously, prioritizing activities based on strategic importance, technical complexity, and business impact while maintaining responsiveness and professionalism throughout the customer engagement process.

• Application Engineering & Product Support:
  Act as the technical liaison between customers, Sales, and Engineering to facilitate the development of custom and application-specific solutions. Gather, document, and communicate technical requirements to engineering teams, ensuring customer needs are clearly understood and effectively translated into product recommendations, modifications, or custom designs.

Support troubleshooting, product performance evaluations, and technical investigations to ensure successful…