Staff Field Application Engineer, Polymers

Full-time - Mid Level

Minneapolis, MN

10,001+ employees

About the position

At TE Medical, our vision is to be your partner of choice, helping build medical devices that save lives. We’re focused on reliability and durability, delivering value through a relentless pursuit of the standards that matter most to our customers. With a commitment to progress and an extensive product range, we enable medical device OEMs, large and small, to transform ideas into reality. The Field Application Engineer will work intimately with TE Connectivity’s Medical customers. This individual will serve as a technical resource for our customers’ engineers and program managers by providing technical expertise, design work, product application information, and general support for TE Connectivity’s Medical customers. The selected engineer will be a significant interface between TE Connectivity’s sales, engineering, Product management organizations and our customers. The Medical business unit of TE Connectivity has an opportunity for an experienced remote Field Application Engineer in USA to support customers throughout the Americas region specifically on our polymers’ product families (Tubing, Heatshrink, FEP, crosslinked, extrusion, …). The business unit has determined that, for our key customers, having knowledgeable engineering presence locally is critical to long-term success in supporting our customers’ product and design needs and in advancing our Company’s interests. This is a remote position.

Responsibilities

• Be the initial point of contact for customer’s local engineering group
• Work with AMs to actively uncover and convert new pipeline opportunities driving and coordinating samples that may be needed
• Gain a solid understanding of customer’s product set and future roadmap
• Partner with AMs and GAMs to execute account plans
• Work with PMs to identify new product propositions based on customer needs
• Proactively participate in technical seminars
• Actively contribute to new product development opportunities for TE at the customer with the ability to provide conceptual design modeling
• Establish relationships with key customer engineering contacts and decision makers
• Penetrate customers’ design cycle to be involved in the early stages of new product / platform planning
• Work closely with internal engineering teams to ensure that they are meeting the customers’ needs and be a conduit to the customer

Requirements

• BS degree in Engineering required (Mechanical / Chemistry discipline preferred)
• At least 5-7 years of engineering experience in polymers processing knowledge
• Knowledge of general manufacturing processes of extrusion, molding, and automated product assembly desired
• Experience in development engineering and participation in full product development cycle
• Prefer candidates with heat shrink tubing product experience in medical devices, preferably in one or more of our product lines (Heatshrink, extrusion, FEP)
• Demonstrated ability to provide effective project leadership
• Demonstrated ability to organize and prioritize
• Strong interpersonal & negotiating skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills demonstrated by the ability to communicate across all levels within and outside of the organization
• Ability and willingness to travel as required, mainly regionally
• Successful candidates will have strong ability to work independently
• Outstanding networking, influencing, and listening skills
• Experience reading/interpreting production level drawings

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance
• 401(k)
• disability
• life insurance
• employee stock purchase plan
• paid time off
• voluntary benefits