Your Tasks:
- Technical & Engineering Support
- Analyze customer Requests for Quotes (RFQs) and define technical requirements.
- Align customer needs to develop complete machine concepts.
- Collaborate with Engineering on feasibility reviews and develop detailed Bills of Material (BOMs).
- Prepare cost estimates for new machine technology and rework projects.
- Create comprehensive proposal packages, including machine content descriptions, TOR documents, and feasibility evaluations.
- Ability to travel to customer or supplier sites as needed, including some international travel.
Must be able to travel by air.
Sales & Product Line Collaboration
- Support Sales and Product Line Managers during customer line-ups and technical discussions.
- Review customer specifications and provide technical recommendations.
- Participate in order-acceptance evaluations with PLM.
- Assist in preparing "as-sold" documentation for internal KOM meetings.
Provide prompt applications-engineering information to Project Managers for smooth project turnover.
Cross-Functional & Global Coordination
- Obtain fixed supplier quotations for major purchased components.
- Coordinate with Operations to determine budgets and schedules from PO receipt through installation/start-up.
- Support multiple divisions with sales and technical liaison services.
- Contribute to defining modular product systems that meet North American market needs.
- Maintain organized technical resources, including drawings, customer correspondence, and print documentation.
Your Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience in Mechanical Controls, Machine Tool, or Applications Engineering.
- Preferred: 3 years of machine-specific and/or automotive applications experience in the machine tool manufacturing industry.
- Strong computer skills, including AutoCAD and Microsoft Office.
- Working knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, physics, mathematics, machine design, electronic controls, and mechanical
- systems.
- Ability to read and interpret part prints, GD&T, and automotive inquiry packages.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
Strong attention to detail and discipline in following established processes.
