Lead Application Engineer

$90,000 - $108,000/Yr

Henkel - Rocky Hill, CT

Full-time - Mid Level

Rocky Hill, CT

10,001+ employees

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47,000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies, and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture, and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth. In the role of Lead Application Engineer, you will directly interact and communicate with external customers to value sell Henkel's adhesives. You will contribute to strategic and tactical planning, identifying and driving new business development activities. Supporting R&D projects critical to the business will be a key part of your responsibilities, as well as generating test plans and/or experiments. You will prepare and deliver presentations on projects and technologies for external customers, internal teams, and management. Additionally, you will identify new opportunities for product development and work with development project teams to bring these opportunities to market.

Responsibilities

• Directly interact and communicate with external customers to value sell Henkel's adhesives.
• Contributes to strategic and tactical planning.
• Identifies and drives new business development activities.
• Supports R&D projects critical to business.
• Generates test plans and/or experiments.
• Prepare and deliver presentations on projects/technologies for external customers, internal teams, and management.
• Identify new opportunities for product development and work with development project teams to bring these opportunities to market.

Requirements

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or Material Science.
• 6 to 10 years of demonstrated related experience, preferably with adhesives.
• Strong customer relations and interpersonal skills.
• Proven leadership, sense of urgency, self-starter - takes the initiative.
• Customer support experience (providing product application training).