Job Description:
Responsibilities:
· Engage with customers during various phases of the sales cycle to deeply understand their specific design requirements and provide them with class-leading solutions.
· Design and develop bespoke fluid handling products alongside the product manager and in line with product line strategy.
· Take a leadership role in design validation and qualification testing, planning research and development efforts, and managing sub-contracted resources
· Works closely with internal and customer engineers/technical teams to help optimise material and design elements needed for optimum sealing conditions such as: lubricant, materials, fluid level, shaft and housing hardness, surface finish, tolerance, chamfer, eccentricity, etc.
· Closely work with R&D team to support developing new materials and formulations
· Conduct comprehensive design validation activities for valves, including stress calculations, tolerance stack-up analysis, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and other relevant design validation methodologies.
· Support sales and marketing functions with product specific presentations and communications, either through on-line webinars or customer visits.
· Manage all aspects of product life, including factory awareness of customer feedback and requirements.
· Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
· The role may require travel to and from all UK sites, and Romania.
· To carry out any additional work as reasonably requested by your line manager.