Applications Engineer

Role Overview

• Provide advanced engineering support for PPE product s and services , including elastomeric & thermoplastic seals, and custom sealing systems.
• Review customer technical requirements, specifications, and operating conditions to recommend optimal seal designs.
• Provide detailed technical proposals, product recommendations, product designs, and material selections based on customer and industry requirements.
• Oversee failure analysis, root cause investigations, and corrective action recommendations.
• Prepare detailed manufacturing drawings including appropriate tolerances , limits and fits for non-O-Ring product.
• Support sales, product management, and other functions to promote PPE materials, products and services at customer sites, technical seminars, trade shows and industry forums.
• Attend customer meetings, technical reviews, and site visits as needed to provide expert consultation.
• Support the sales teams to ensure timely and accurate response to RFQs (Request For Quotation) through the CRM system.
• Deliver technical presentations including generic and specialised training courses to internal & external customers and suppliers.
• Manage and control SKU’s for through J.D Edwards.
• Work with customers, sales and product management functions to develop detailed and relevant specifications for new product developments.
• Work closely with R&D and manufacturing functions along with identified third part ies to develop materials, products and services.
• Ensures that new and existing products meet customer and industry requirements.
• Work with sales functions to leverage the commercial opportunities resulting from the qualification of new & existing products and services.
• Identify emerging technological, political and market trends to enhancing the product portfolio.
• Build a detailed understanding of customer & industry requirements and competitor offerings for sealing materials, products and services within target segments.
• Provides voice of customer to contribute to development of product strategy and product development roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering , Materials Engineering, related discipline or equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience in either designing, developing and validating elastomeric sealing solutions or having experience working with polymeric sealing products in the semi-conductor, energy, life-sciences, marine propulsion or similar industries.
• Knowledge of polymeric sealing materials (e. g. elastomers, thermoplastics, composites) and associated manufacturing processes.
• Competent user of 3D CAD systems (familiarity with SolidWorks would be an advantage), engineering analysis tools (e. g. FEA and FSD systems) and Microsoft Office products.
• Understanding of mechanical design principles, including materials technology, stress analysis, fluid dynamics, tribology and thermodynamics.
• Ability to understand customer and industry technical requirements including the interpretation of engineering drawings (geometry, dimensions, tolerances etc) and material/product and test specifications.

Benefits

• IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Attention Applicants: If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know.