Job purpose

The Application Engineer is responsible for determining operations to produce heavy capacity and custom crane products and developing processes to ensure quality, cost, and efficiency requirements are met.

Duties and responsibilities

• Review and interpret product specifications to determine customer needs and requests.
• Perform all necessary calculations to determine project scope and required materials.
• Perform estimating work in order to obtain quotes from vendors.
• Prepare client proposal to include detailed outline of project scope and cost.
• Prepare proposal sketches.
• Compare customer purchase order against quoted projected to ensure accuracy.
• Prepare engineering calculations to ensure specifications are included in the engineering card.
• Prepare final customer order, including total materials cost and engineering and shop hours required.
• Act as a liaison between the customers and other internal departments.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities but does serve as a mentor for other application engineers.

Qualifications

Qualifications include:

• 2 – 4 years of college in ME, MET, EE, EET or equivalent related field experience required.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in large industrial equipment industry required.
• Mechanical and electrical knowledge required.
• Ability to read and understand machinery and structural drawings, customer supplied specifications, codes, and industry standards required.
• Effective oral and written communications skills required.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, etc.).
• This position requires the ability to travel as needed, typically 2-3 times per year based on customer needs.

Working conditions

Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment. Occasional work performed in a manufacturing environment in a technical support role. Ability to climb on heavy equipment that may be elevated 30-50 feet is required.

Physical requirements

• No or very limited exposure to physical risk.
• No or very limited physical effort required.