What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Engineer position at HIKINEX?
Application Engineer – Milwaukee, WI
Our client design and manufactures automated assembly equipment for their customers and they need an Application Engineer. They will teach you the automation part of the job but need good hands-on engineering skills and a desire to learn and work with customers. The position reports to V.P. of Technical Sales.
Company
· Well established manufacturer of custom automated production equipment for automotive, energy, appliance, consumer products and other industries
· Founded in 1936 this is a 100 people strong and you can see how your work impacts the company and its clients
· Career growth opportunities
· State of the art technology is part of your day-to-day work, with interesting technical challenges
Benefits and Features – They truly VALUE and APPRECIATE their employees!
· Health, Vision, Dental, Life, Disability and Accident Insurances
· 3% employer match on 401K and profit-sharing program
· Paid vacation and holidays
· Great company culture
What you will be doing:
· Perform a wide variety of technical assessments of customer and market requirements in support of sales and business development activities.
· Conceptualize custom built machine applications, including CAD proposal sketches. Review quotation requests and discuss design needs with potential customers. Communicate with marketing and other engineering personnel to create the most appropriate design proposal.
· Involve third party vendors and suppliers in the quoting process where necessary.
· Travels to the customer’s site to assist in project or product development, working with specific engineering design specifications, objectives and standards.
· Provide sales presentations to customer personnel when required.
· Obtains and prepares detailed estimates of time, quantities, labor and material costs required for work areas such as product design, testing, machine building, equipment installations and manufacturing processes.
· Perform customer follow-up to answer proposal questions and assist in attempts to close the sale.
What they are looking for:
· BS in Engineering and 2 years of engineering experience
· You must have good logical problem-solving skills and the desire to work with customers
· Good design skills using SolidWorks is a required
· Project experience and working knowledge of manufacturing engineering processes is helpful
· Any skills with welding, fixture design, robotics, automated assembly, material handling, gauging, leak-testing, and machining would also be helpful
· Experience with automatic assembly, or related factory automation and mechanical/electrical systems design, applications engineering is helpful
