Ainsley Search Group is hiring for an Application Engineer with experience in product price and cost estimating to join a Global Manufacturer of engineered products located in Philadelphia. This Application Engineer will report to the Application Engineering Manager and provide timely estimation on product/project cost, pricing to customers and sales team, gain understanding of customer specifications on application and work with R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, finance to determine competitive cost solution to customer and protect company profit. S/He will evaluate customer specifications to develop a feasible price/cost solution to all stakeholders. This is a full-time, permanent opportunity with lucrative base salary, performance bonus, stock option and competitive benefits. In addition, company would like to develop this individual to become the Product Engineer, Sales Engineer, Design Engineer, or Product Manager.
Responsibilities:
Report to the Engineering Manager and support customers, sales engineers, product manager, and marketing team on product cost and price based off customer specifications, cost of materials and manpower, etc.
Based on customer inquiries to provide accurate estimate on cost and price based off customer solution; research customer requirement and pre-estimate for manpower, materials and technical resource, provide technical approval for quoting process, support proposal process.
Support R&D on new product development, new application development, rapid prototyping and testing, ensure new application manufacturability based off quotes and price proposal
Support customer engineering change of orders, timely provide all stakeholders with most accurate new cost and price based off turnaround needed to meet ECO requirements
Support procurement on BOM, supplier qualification on materials, etc.
Promote marketing by providing product technical literature, support preparation and marketing effort for trade shows, product categories, 3rd party marketing firms, and other marketing initiatives.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent work experience
Recent years of work experience as a Engineering Estimator, Application Engineer, Sales Support Engineer or related roles within Industrial manufacturing industry, exposure to rapid contract manufacturing process is a plus.
Solid mechanical aptitude
Excellent communication and customer service skills, able to translate engineering issues, bottlenecks and constrains to non-engineering customers.
Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, outside of box thinker and able to foresee various scenarios to reduce engineering risks.
Able to pass drug screen, background check and employment verification.
Compensation and Benefits:
Competitive base salary
Annual performance bonus
Company paid 401k
Profit sharing and employee stock options.
100% health coverage for employee and dependents.
PTO and paid holidays
Long-term/short-term disability
Company paid life insurance
