What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Application Engineer position at Henkel?
At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.
Dare to make an impact?
YOUR ROLE
- Directly interact and communicate with external customers to value sell Henkel’s adhesives.
- Contributes to strategic and tactical planning. Identifies and drives new business development activities.
- Supports R&D projects critical to business.
- Generates test plans and/or experiments.
- Prepare and deliver presentations on projects/technologies for external customer, internal teams and management.
- Identify new opportunities for product development and work with development project teams to bring these opportunities to market.
YOUR SKILLS
- B.S. Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or Material Science.
- 6 to 10 years of demonstrated related experience, preferably with adhesives.
- Strong customer relations and interpersonal skills.
- Proven leadership, sense of urgency, self-starter – takes the initiative.
- Customer support experience (providing product application training).
- Potential for up to 30% overnight travel per year.
