Application Engineer

**GENERAL DESCRIPTION:** As an Application Engineer you will be responsible for our business area of readychain® and readycable®. Together with customers, you design/ configure ready-to-install energy chain systems that are individually tailored to an application or machine. You will demonstrate your organizational talent in coordinating and prioritizing a number of simultaneous projects in different statuses. Smart and creative process consulting for clients is part of what you do to reduce their costs and/or improve their technology. With communication skills, you lead price negotiations, new product introduction, manufacturing, and customer support. **RESPONSIBILITIES:** - Assist with configuration/ design of readychain® and readycable® products. - Perform detailed review of customer drawings to identify best manufacturing approach with cost-effective component selection. - Interfacing with the electronics and material suppliers, and internally with sales, as required to solicit competitive material quotes. - Calculate material and labor cost, tooling and test requirements, and pricing in support of product quotation requests. - Develop/ document assembly drawings and manufacturing processes. - Coordinate with multiple teams including: New Product Introduction, First Article builds, and First Article Inspections. - Communicate with sales and/ or customers to ensure their technical needs are being met. - Interact with quality, sales, and/ or customers with product quality issues to find the best solution moving forward. - Provide support to the manufacturing teams by resolving technical issues related to the product, assembly process, and tooling. - Work closely with Process Engineering for continuous improvement of techniques, process documentation, tooling, assembly aids, etc. - Coordinate and execute Engineering Change Orders, Waiver/ Deviations, and Documentation Change Orders with assistance from multiple Operations Teams. **REQUIREMENTS:** - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required. - Knowledge of wire harnessing processes, tooling and industry standards. - Strong technical skills: able to present technical concepts; provide customers with hands-on technique using our products. - Self-starter; motivated, team focused and results driven. - Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills. - Familiar with best manufacturing and assembly practices/ techniques. - Familiar with Item Master and Bill of Materials. - Requires demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing engineering discipline, theories, practices and principles. - Requires knowledge necessary to perform the job function such as an understanding of the engineering change order process, product development process, value engineering etc. - Strong Product technology, change management, problem solving, communication skills, customer orientation, personal effectiveness, team skills, and quality. - Knowledge of CAD tools. - Requires additional knowledge of systems and software necessary such as MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint. **BENEFITS:** - Competitive base salary with ongoing growth opportunities - Complete benefits package: - Co. paid HSA medical plan - Co. paid Dental - Co. paid Life - Supplemental Life Insurance - Vision Insurance - Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - Retirement with Company contributions - 20 Paid Time Off days per year, plus 9 holidays - Subsidized lunch on-site #INDSJ #INDSJ