Job Description
Sterling Engineering is partnering with a growing manufacturing organization to hire an Applications Engineer to join their team in Vernon Hills, IL. This is a customer-facing technical role for someone who enjoys combining engineering with customer interaction and sales support.
Location: Vernon Hills, IL 60069
Salary: $65,000-$72,000
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Schedule: 1st Shift
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, paid holidays, and additional company-sponsored benefits.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with sales representatives to understand customer requirements and develop technical solutions
- Conduct customer discovery meetings, site visits, and application reviews
- Recommend equipment and process solutions based on customer production needs
- Conduct product demonstrations, technical presentations, and proof-of-concept evaluations
- Perform cycle time analysis and capacity planning to support customer applications
- Develop and optimize assembly processes involving screen printers, placement equipment, and odd-form insertion machines
- Prepare technical proposals, statements of work, and supporting documentation
- Serve as the technical liaison between customers, sales, engineering, and service teams
- Coordinate customer equipment evaluations and acceptance testing
- Respond to technical questions, RFIs, and RFPs
- Support trade shows, customer workshops, training sessions, and company events
- Stay current on electronic assembly equipment, technologies, and industry trends
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related field preferred
- Experience in Applications Engineering, Technical Sales, Field Engineering, Sales Engineering, or another customer-facing technical role
- Strong technical problem-solving and customer communication skills
- Comfortable presenting technical information and demonstrating equipment
- Ability to understand customer requirements and translate them into practical technical solutions
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple customer projects and priorities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
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 | Vernon Hills, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $65,000–$72,000 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
- Acceptance Testingunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Assemblers Technologyunmatched
- Assembly Equipmentunmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electronics Assemblyunmatched
- Industry/Trade Analysisunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Partner Salesunmatched
- Printersunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Demonstrationunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Proof of Conceptunmatched
- Proposal Writingunmatched
- Request for Proposals (RFP)unmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Sales Supportunmatched
- Sales/Support Engineering (SE)unmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Statement of Work (SOW)unmatched
- Technical Presentationunmatched
- Technical Salesunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Trade Showsunmatched
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