Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Monday through Friday, 8am - 5pm
Join a Team Where Engineering Expertise, Customer Focus, and Problem Solving Drive Business Success!
Job Title: Custom Project Engineer
Hybrid | Port Washington, NY 11050 (Western Nassau County / Long Island)
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Join a Team Where Engineering Expertise, Sales Growth, Customer Focus, and Problem Solving Drive Business Success!
Job Title: Custom Project Engineer
Hybrid | Port Washington, NY 11050 (Western Nassau County / Long Island)
Check out our address!
If you enjoy...
- Solving complex customer challenges through customized engineering solutions
- Supporting sales, margin and profitability goals
- Building strong long-term relationships with customers and business partners
- Managing multiple projects while balancing customer expectations and timelines.
- Collaborating with Sales, R&D, Manufacturing, and Customer Service teams to drive successful outcomes
- Turning technical requirements into innovative, value-added solutions
- Creating quotations, layouts, and CAD drawings that help win business
...we would be excited to hear from you!
WAC Group is seeking a Custom Project Engineer to join our growing Sales Operations team. In this highly visible role, you will serve as a technical resource and project leader, partnering with Sales, R&D, Customer Service, and Manufacturing teams to develop customized solutions that exceed customer expectations while supporting profitability, margin and business goals.
Why Join WAC Group?
- Beautiful and newly renovated headquarters with FREE onsite EV charging for our employees!
- Robust benefits and perks package!
- Merit-based compensation structure!
- Career growth and professional development opportunities!
- Collaborative and supportive team environment!
What You'll Do
Manage Custom Quotations and Projects
- Own and manage quotations to ensure accuracy, validity, and timely follow-up
- Create custom quotations while working closely with R&D teams to minimize cost and lead-time impacts
- Prepare material quotations for Inside Sales, Outside Sales Representatives, and customers, including air freight estimates
- Validate custom leads by gathering and documenting project requirements with customers and sales partners
- Track project status and proactively communicate delivery schedules and updates
- Follow up on outstanding quotations to maximize project conversion and secure profitable orders
Provide Technical Solutions and Design Support
- Interpret customer requirements and recommend solutions that maximize value and profitability
- Create CAD drawings to support custom pricing requests and project development
- Complete fixture schedule crossovers and layouts
- Identify and recommend alternate solutions for discontinued products and potential material conflicts
- Provide design guidance and project support based on manufacturing capabilities
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred
- Basic electrical knowledge and familiarity with manufacturing and industrial design environments preferred
- Ability and willingness for minimal travel domestically and internationally as business needs require
- Excellent communication, project management, organizational, and time management skills
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and independent decision-making abilities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams
- Experience with SAP, Sugar CRM, Zendesk, SolidWorks, Adobe Creative Suite, or KeyShot is a plus
We recognize people as our most valuable asset. Our competitive salary and benefits package includes: paid time off; medical & dental coverage (including family coverage), vision, life, 401(k); tuition assistance; and continuous training and development.
WAC is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other protected characteristic. In addition to federal law requirements, WAC complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in all of its locations. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Please note, all responsibilities outlined in the above job description are subject to change as needed. All efforts will be made to ensure proper notice is given for changes in responsibilities.
Monday through Friday, 8am - 5pm
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Port Washington, NY |
| Industry | Electronics, Components, and Semiconductor Mfg |
| Salary | $84,000–$100,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1984 |
About Company
Founded in 1984, WAC Lighting has evolved into a global company that designs, engineers and manufactures innovative track, recessed, under cabinet, monorail, step and wall lights and decorative lighting solutions with a new sustainable LED collection for residential, retail, hospitality, museum and commercial applications.
More than two decades ago, WAC created breakthroughs in low voltage halogen recessed and track lighting. In addition, we have created a broad range of pendants and fixtures that work with a variety of mounting options including tracks, rails and canopies using the innovative Quick Connect™ components. Most recently we have developed an extensive line of award-winning LEDme® luminaires including tape lights, pendants and fixtures, as well as revolutionary Organic LED fixtures.
Our strong family values are transformed into successful business values while promoting the highest standards of entrepreneurship and quality of life. We use the phrase “Responsible Lighting†as the brand standard that reflects WAC’s holistic approach to business, encompassing a deep commitment to responsible eco-friendly manufacturing, extensive research/development, energy saving technology, design aesthetics and altruism, while supporting diversity and goodwill in the local and global communities.
Our customers have always come first in our marketing strategy and business model. We leverage emerging lamping and lighting technologies to create luminaires that ensure our customers’ success in the marketplace. We listen to customer concerns and build lighting solutions that will exceed their expectations.
Technical innovation is central to what people have come to expect from the WAC Lighting brand. Advancements in light sources, materials engineering, electronics and architecture have allowed our team to push the boundaries of engineering and inspired designs. Engaging designers and artisans, we continue to build inroads in the creation of art glass lighting that combines old world techniques with modern styles and colors. We search worldwide for innovative artistic styles developed out of the creative liberties of master glass blowers. To acknowledge local art cultures, WAC goes directly to the sources for authenticity, including Italy for works of Murano fused glass fashion; Germany for technically perfect glasswork; and the North American Pacific Northwest for brilliant colors and organic creativity. Incorporating these cutting edge lighting technologies helps showcase its many works of art.
WAC Lighting continues to greatly reduce the environmental footprint of our manufacturing operations in a dedicated, clean ISO-14001/9001-certified facility. This zero-landfill, 750,000 square-foot manufacturing campus operates in-house UL authorized testing labs. Nearly 90% of all WAC Lighting products are fabricated, to a component level, within this campus and our USA facilities.
WAC has become a recognizable brand name as an Solid State Lighting leader with a stellar reputation for excellence in technology and design - a reliable name that you can trust for superior quality, innovative technology and superlative service.
Skills
- Adobe Creative Suiteunmatched
- Air Cargounmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing)unmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Field Salesunmatched
- Industrial Designunmatched
- Industrial Engineeringunmatched
- Inside Salesunmatched
- International Businessunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
- Microsoft Wordunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Partner Salesunmatched
- Pricingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Profit & Lossunmatched
- Project Developmentunmatched
- Project Engineeringunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Resolve Customer Issuesunmatched
- Revenue Growthunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Sales Operationsunmatched
- Sales Supportunmatched
- SolidWorksunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
- ZenDeskunmatched
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