Industrial Automation Application Engineer – South East UK, you must live within this area
Please note : You must be a full UK citizen living and working in the UK to be considered for this opportunity. You must also have relevant industrial automation application support experience covering electric drives, pneumatics, control systems and PLC programming.
This is a great opportunity to join one of the leading industrial automation equipment suppliers, as Application Engineer covering South East UK. The successful candidate will be required to live in the South East area of the UK, this is a work from home role.
The Application Engineer is an expert and provides the best technical consulting and solution for key Industrial Automation applications to the Sales Teams in the pre-sales phase of different industry segments of the company while taking commercial consideration fully into account when proposing solutions, continuously support the projects assigned to them. As each Application Engineer has their own specific field of expertise, for this role specification, commissioning, software and controls functionalities are the required fields of expertise.
Key Aspects Of The Role :
* Independently translates the multi-technological solutions into detail designs in the field of pneumatic, mechanical, electrical and software partial solutions by using the latest technologies available.
* Focuses on technical feasibility of proposals, based on technical and application knowledge of the corresponding Industry/Technology Segment.
* Is responsible for specification lists and the writing of the technical elements for a customer proposal.
* Creates Requirement Specification together with the customer.
* Ensures that deadlines are met and the overall realization of the project.
* Reports all relevant activities and developments relating to projects and ensures project data is correctly managed in the information systems used by the company.
* Treats complaints by setting up an action plan for the complaint desk if necessary.
* Discusses machine concepts to optimize machines, define specifications and concepts.
* Support the drafting of the account plans.
* During the pre-sales phase, acts as interface between customer and all relevant departments within the company (always in coordination with the sales engineer) for specific applications of the industry/technology segments.
* Provides technical training and/or arranges knowledge transfer to the Team for specific products and applications of the relevant industry segment and BD for Multiplications of Solutions.
* Supports in Question of Norms, regulations.
* Identifies and supports to win projects.
* Manages commissioning of the project at customer site coordinating the technical activities of the Support Engineer and/or Application Software Engineer.
* Provides a proactive form and support for marketing campaigns and promotional activities within the company.