Markent Personnel
Applications Engineer
Markent Personnel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53295
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.
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 customers 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 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
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.
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 customers 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 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