Application Development Engineer

Overview

Location

This role can be fully remote as long as you live near a regional airport.

Job Purpose

Directly contributes to the execution of AEC’s strategic plans and overall growth by being a primary interface for Engineering, R&T and AEC’s Business Development to drive insertion of composite material based emerging technologies into 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 target customers, AEC senior leadership and collaboratively working with AEC’s Engineering, Customer and Marketing organization to strengthen AEC’s brand in the marketplace.

In performing their duties, all employees are expected to adhere to Albany’s 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.

• Composite structures technical lead in capturing new opportunities and leading application developments for AEC’s new and emerging technologies with new customers; primary technical interface to AEC Business Development on efforts to insert new technologies with existing customers on current or new platforms
• Contributes directly to the execution of customer and internally funded development projects aimed at TRL 4-7 applications
• Develops 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 solution
  • new programs with the best opportunity to insert AEC’s unique technologies in the near term
  • intermediate and long term opportunities where customers’ and AEC’s R&D activities could complement each other through collaboration
• Works collaboratively with AEC’s Business Development organization to ensure engagements with customers lead to a common vision and value for AEC
• 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 composite materials and processes knowledge base
• Supports the ongoing direction of AEC’s technologies focus areas by aligning the voice of the customer with growth strategies

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Supervisors are responsible for overseeing their work group including performance evaluations, recruitment, and development as defined by the organization.

Experience/Knowledge:

• 7 or more years of progressively responsible composite industry Engineering, Sales, and/or Marketing experience in an engineered products business required.
• 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 not required.
• Special consideration for experience or training in aerospace composites or textile manufacturing with understanding of mechanics and strength of materials.
• Demonstrated experience working directly or through collaboration in an R&T environment.
• Ability to deliver exceptional results in a high-growth, unstructured environment is advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of aerospace development and qualification/certification processes as pathways for new products.
• Ability to travel up to 40% monthly.
• Ability to obtain security clearance.

Skills/Abilities:

• Proven ability to solve complex problems and deliver results in a global manufacturing environment with cross-functional teamwork; willing to perform hands-on work while delegating effectively.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Action-oriented, results-driven, decisive, and…