Application Engineer - Seattle, WA

Festo inspires people and organizations around the world with innovative solutions for industrial automation. We are an independent family business and offer more than 20,000 employees the opportunity to take bold steps, realize their ideas, and take on responsibility. As a team, we grow by tackling challenges together and we welcome everyone who wants to move the world with us.

15281

Home Office

Permanent

Full Time

Others

Founded in 1925, Festo Corporation is the leading worldwide supplier of automation technology and the performance leader in industrial training and education programs. For many years Festo has been providing impetus for factory automation and offers a wide product and service portfolio – from individual components to complex customized solutions and system. As a family-owned company, we act from a holistic perspective.

We take responsibility for our actions globally and locally, we want to contribute to the quality of life and conservation of resources where we operate with new technologies, knowledge and education.

At Festo, we hire people who continuously live our five core Values:

• We are
  Ambitious
• We are
  Determined
• We are
  Visionary
• We
  Value Each Other
• We are
  Dependable

Summary:

The Application Engineer I/II serves as a technical partner to the sales organization by providing application and technology expertise to support customer automation solutions. This role develops technical knowledge and business acumen through direct customer engagement, solution development, and project support. The position independently manages routine application opportunities while receiving guidance on more complex solutions. The engineer works closely with customers to understand production processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and recommend automation solutions that align technical capabilities with business objectives.

Approximately 50-70% of time is spent supporting customers at their facilities from concept development through commissioning and optimization.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provides technical support to sales and customers on specific applications and production processes in factory and process automation in addition to specific industry segments.
• Focus on commercial and technical feasibility of proposals, based on technical and application knowledge for the corresponding Industry/Technology Segment.
• Proposes customer specific solutions, in accordance with industry practices or specific customer specifications
• Responsible for specification lists for the specific industry segments (e.g. Project Books*) Maintains files consisting of technical data, application examples, competitor info, test data and additional information as needed.
• Creates Requirement Specification together with the customer.
• During the pre-sales phase acts as interface between customer and all relevant departments within Festo, always in coordination with the sales engineer.
• Provides technical training and arranges knowledge transfer to the customer for the relevant products/applications.
• Supports and provides PMM with products/applications requirements as input for Product Development
• Supports in Question of Norms, regulations.
• Assists in the identification and winning of projects based on application /automation/sector competence.
• Knowledge Transfer for Multiplication of Solutions.
• May serve as mentor for less experienced AE’s
• May oversee installation and performs commissioning in alignment with specifications and requirements).
• AEs will troubleshoot system failures by reviewing and recommending redesigns of schematic diagrams, in coordination with Festo Engineering Department and may modify computer operating software programs from existing programs, or may be required to support the implementation of new operating…