Job Description
Title: Applications Engineer
Location: Bensenville, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $80K-$95K based on experience
Benefits: Insurance (Health, Medical, Dental), PTO, Paid Holidays, and more!
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $80K-$95K based on experience
Benefits: Insurance (Health, Medical, Dental), PTO, Paid Holidays, and more!
The Application Engineer will support existing and potential customers in selecting, applying, and commissioning products that provide the optimum solution for their process applications. This position will work closely with customers, Sales, Manufacturing, and Engineering while helping identify product improvements and new product opportunities.
Job Duties:
- Provide technical support and answer customer questions regarding product applications.
- Analyze customer needs and develop technical specifications, performance requirements, proposals, quotations, and supporting documentation.
- Analyze new product quotations and develop recommendations based on customer requirements.
- Identify customer application and product needs and recommend appropriate product solutions.
- Research competitive markets and utilize findings to develop recommendations.
- Work closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Sales departments.
- Utilize ERP and CRM systems to document and enter key information.
- Conduct group presentations on technical topics and customer proposals.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or equivalent.
- 1–3 years of customer service or sales experience.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, and customers.
- Experience with ERP and/or CRM systems is a plus.
- Ability to develop working knowledge of the product line within 3 months.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Bensenville, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $80,000–$95,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Business Writingunmatched
- Chemical Engineeringunmatched
- Commissioningunmatched
- Competitive Researchunmatched
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systemsunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Customer/Client Researchunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Market Researchunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Engineeringunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Reporting Skillsunmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- Resolve Customer Issuesunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Technical Presentationunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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