Application Engineer – Aylesford, Kent
Are you looking to take the next step in your engineering career and join a company providing innovative products/systems for the process and industrial sectors?
If you’re passionate about technical problem-solving and delivering engineering solutions that make a real impact in the process industry, this role will be for you. As an Application Engineer, you’ll work closely with suppliers and internal teams, both technical and commercial. You will ensure clients’ projects/orders are delivered on time, on budget, and to specification.
You’ll be part of a cross-functional team where your input influences everything from quotes and tender documents through to project delivery. Therefore giving you visibility across the full lifecycle of client projects.
What you’ll do in this Application Engineer job
As an Application Engineer, you’ll play a key role in supporting client projects/ order from initial sales order through the supplier and design process into shipping and delivery. This hands-on role combines technical expertise with project coordination. Requiring you to liaise with suppliers, design teams, accounting and internal manufacturing/assembly teams to ensure solutions meet requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
* Producing detailed documentation for orders before submission.
* Ensuring all aspects of orders and invoices are correct, including Purchase Order Management using Sage.
* Working closely with Sales, Design, and Manufacturing teams to ensure projects/orders are delivered on time and within budget.
* Preparing quotes and tender documents in conjunction with the sales team.
* Liaising extensively with suppliers to ensure the right parts/products are orders.
* Responding to technical queries and ensuring the correct parts/products are ordered.
* Offering advice and support technically on the company's products and services.
* Ensuring the ERP systems is up to date with all information from tender to delivery.+
* Manage the Bill of Materials (BOM).
* Manage delivery and post-sales activities, monitoring import and export considerations when required.
Role could grow to include additional involvement to support the design team in CAD system management and some aspects of design.
What you’ll bring to this Application Engineer job
This role suits someone with a good technical/engineering understanding, attention to detail, and excellent communication skills. You should be comfortable managing multiple tasks, coordinating across teams, and engaging directly with suppliers and clients.
You should have:
* Possibly a degree or HND/HNC in Engineering, Mechanical, Process, or a similar discipline. However, this is not essential if you can demonstrate good Engineering knowledge built by experience.
* Experience in technical or engineering roles within the delivery of products/parts or systems going into the industrial or process industry-based environments would be an advantage. Again, attitude, willingness to learn, enthusiasm, and a good engineering foundation are just as important.
* Engineering documentation experienced (i.e. able to manage the Bill of Materials) and have knowledge of the invoicing, quotation, tendering and shipping process.
* A proactive, team-oriented mindset with excellent problem-solving abilities.
* Previous client or supplier-facing experience in an engineering context.
* Able to read and understand technical/engineering drawings, and ideally knowledge of a leading CAD system such as Solidworks
What’s on offer
This full-time, permanent role provides an excellent opportunity to join a technically focused, forward-thinking company operating in the industrial and process sectors. You’ll enjoy a varied role with exposure to multiple projects, and the chance to grow your technical and project management skills.
You’ll also benefit from a supportive and collaborative working environment where employee contributions and ideas are actively sought and implemented. This SME highly values its staff and therefore offers a top-tier pension scheme, bonus scheme, Christmas Perks, 23 days ' holiday and is an excellent place to build an engineering career.
Apply for this Application Engineer job now
If you have a good grasp of Engineering and want to work in a SME where you will get involved in many aspects of Engineering and post sales deliver we want to hear from. Whatever your background, as long as you have an initial grasp of engineering and are methodical and well organised we want to hear from you.
Apply today with Senex Recruitment to explore this exciting opportunity.