Senior Technical Applications Engineer

Location:

Colorado (HQ)

Reports To:

Director of Engineering

Business Unit:
Heavy Lifting Systems (HLS)

Salary Range: $120,000 – $140,000 plus bonus depending on experience

Travel requirement:
Occasional international travel as required.

NOTE
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This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

The Senior Technical Applications Engineer serves as the senior technical owner for HLS customer applications, system specification, standards compliance, external engineering coordination, and lifecycle technical support.

This role bridges Sales, customers, and external engineers—owning application definition, technical scoping, and engineering coordination—while helping establish the foundational processes, standards, and documentation needed to evolve toward in-house engineering over time.

The role blends technical support, application engineering, and technical oversight to ensure safe, compliant, and high-performance below-the-hook lifting solutions across North America, Europe, and Asia. Success is measured by proposal accuracy, technical quality, reduced engineering risk, and enabling successful customer delivery.

Following engineering release, responsibility for project execution transfers to the Senior Field Service Engineer while the Senior Technical Applications Engineer remains the technical lead for engineering support and technical escalations.

• Own the technical system definition, standards, and lifecycle framework for HLS.
• Validate technical application information gathered by Sales, identify missing requirements or risks, and confirm system feasibility and technical scope before engineering begins.
• Provide preliminary system sizing, application feasibility assessments, and configuration recommendations.
• Support customer meetings, technical discussions, and proposal development as the primary HLS technical resource.
• Interface with external vendors on product design, change requests, and compliance.
• Translate customer and sales requirements into structured engineering scopes for outsourced engineering partners.
• Support development of technical proposals, customer presentations, and system demonstrations for complex opportunities.
• Support Sales with technical validation, risk assessment, and solution alignment.

• Serve as the internal technical authority for applicable HLS standards and ensure ASME BTH-1, ASME B30.20, OSHA requirements, and Magswitch design standards are incorporated into specifications, engineering scopes, design reviews, and customer documentation for systems sold into North America.
• Translate those requirements into standard specifications and engineering scopes.
• Ensure overseas engineering/manufacturing partners design and build to those requirements.
• Maintain standard design-review checklists, compliance documentation, and technical templates.

• Serve as the primary technical interface with external engineering and fabrication partners for system configuration, structural calculations, and detailed engineering design.
• Review and provide internal technical approval of below-the-hook engineering drawings, calculations, and submittals, coordinating licensed PE review and stamping where required.
• Coordinate engineering schedules and technical deliverables to support customer proposal and project timelines.
• Verify magnet selection, load paths, attachment design, safety factors, and review FEA when provided.
• Maintain models, documentation, and project status updates.

• Coordinate with overseas engineering and manufacturing partners to ensure customer requirements and applicable market standards are carried from specification through design, manufacture, and final technical release.
• Build and maintain product records and BOMs within the ERP system.
• Deliver complete engineering packages to…