Application Development Engineer, Ceramic Matrix Composites

Job Description

Job Purpose:

Directly contributes to the execution of AEC’s strategic plans and overall growth of AEC by being a primary interface for Engineering, R&T and AEC’s Business Development organization to drive insertion of ceramic matrix based composite materials and emerging technologies into production applications.  This individual will identify and drive internal and customer-facing activities to accelerate AEC’s profitable growth through technology differentiation.  Achieving this requires establishing and maintaining outstanding relationships with agreed target customers, AEC senior leadership and collaboratively working with AEC’s Engineering, Customer and Marketing organization to strengthen AEC’s brand in the marketplace.

Job Responsibilities:

In performing their respective tasks and duties, all employees are expected to adhere to Albany’s current values:
Albany Wins Together, Count on Each Other, Own Your Actions, Care About Each Other, and Share Your Enthusiasm. Safety must always come first; we never compromise on safety for the sake of achieving another objective. Employees are also responsible for the health and safety of themselves and each other. CMC composites technical lead in capturing new opportunities and leading application developments for AEC’s new and emerging technologies with new customers;

and primary technical interface to AEC Business Development organization on efforts to insert our new and emerging technologies with existing customers on either current or new platforms

Contributes directly to the execution of customer and internally funded development projects aimed at TRL 4-7 applications

Responsible for developing technical scopes of work, proposals, and directional production pricing targets to drive adoption of AEC’s technologies

Provides technical leadership and support to project engineers during project execution

Develops and maintains strong relationships with targeted key customers to identify:customer needs where AEC’s unique technology can be leveraged to provide a solutionnew programs that provide the best opportunity to insert AEC’s unique technologies in the nearintermediate and long-term opportunities where our customers’ and AEC’s R&D activities could complement each other through collaboration

Supports the strengthening of AEC’s brand in the marketplace through industry and trade show engagements

Contributes to AEC’s technical organization as a recognized leader in CMC composite materials and processes knowledge base across the organization

Supports the ongoing direction of AEC’s technologies focus areas by aligning the voice of the customer with AEC’s growth strategies

Job Location:

Strong preference for Rochester, NH base but remote employee would be considered for strong candidate

Supervisory Responsibility:
No

Job Requirements Qualifications/Characteristics: 2+ years of progressively responsible composite industry Engineering, Sales, and/or Marketing experience in an engineered products business required.

The ideal candidate will have experience in CMC (Ceramic Matrix Composites), Hypersonic and Advanced Electronics.

Undergraduate degree, preferably in Business or Engineering, required.  Advanced business or technical degree preferred but is not required.

Special consideration will be given to applicants who also have experience or training in aerospace composites or textile manufacturing with an understanding of the mechanics and strength of materials.

Demonstrated experience working directly or through collaboration in an R&T environment and/or organization.

Demonstrated ability to deliver exceptional results within a relatively unstructured, tightly resourced, high-growth organization would be a significant competitive advantage.

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