What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Application Engineer position at NSK Corporation?
Description
Sr. Application Engineer - NSK Corporation
The Company
NSK is a global manufacturer of ball and roller bearings, linear motion technology, automotive components, and steering systems with both domestic and overseas manufacturing capabilities. NSK also offers a full range of services including reconditioning, ball screw repair, product integration, application engineering, and predictive & preventative maintenance and reliability services. NSK's products and solutions are everywhere where things are in motion - even under the toughest conditions. NSK's high-precision rolling bearings are used in wind turbines and machine tools, linear components are found in production lines, while automotive components are installed in the vehicles of almost every well-known automaker.
The Sr. Application Engineer Role
Acts in conjunction with sales and marketing personnel, contacts customer to ascertain technical and service requirements, stimulates sales by obtaining technical approval of specialized company products, and provides product engineering service to customers, field sales, and marketing. Responsible for obtaining new approvals and assisting in maintenance of current business when extensive engineering expertise is required, operates under broad general guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Communicates with key customers to document customer product and project needs. Identifies new product applications and communicates with NSK R&D, manufacturing, sales, and marketing.
- Evaluates customer application requirements for technical considerations.
- Coordinates requests for customer analysis; followed by preparation, review, and issue of written reports to present findings.
- Manages documentation and activities for assigned projects.
- Provides mentoring through technical review and support to other application engineers in the department.
- Trains and develops customers and NSK personnel on NSK products.
- Evaluates customer requirements associated with requests for quotations.
- Identifies cost reduction possibilities and new design opportunities.
- Evaluates tested bearings in cooperation with development engineers.
- Supports supply or customer sample bearing requests.
- Reports progress of required activities such as interchanges, monthly reports, travel, expenses, etc.
Qualifications
Featured Benefits
NSK is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
VEVRAA Federal Contractor
Qualifications
Education Bachelors (required)
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
