Welding Applications Engineer

HRU Technical Resources - Waukesha, WI

Full-time

Waukesha, WI

About the position

The Welding Applications Engineer plays a crucial role in developing equipment and systems for sale to customers, working closely with Sales Engineers and other personnel. This position involves interpreting customer specifications, creating conceptual designs, and ensuring smooth transitions from engineering prototypes to production. The engineer is responsible for creating accurate proposals, cost estimates, and collaborating with vendors to determine component performance and pricing.

Responsibilities

• Interpret customer specifications to determine the scope of work.
• Create conceptual designs based on input from customers, sales, and engineering.
• Facilitate design reviews with an engineering team to review and refine initial concepts.
• Work with the manufacturing team to ensure a smooth transition from the engineering prototype into the build process.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineers, customers, and internal & external resources to gather information and define a solution for the project being proposed.
• Work extensively with vendors to determine the performance, interface, price, and delivery time of components to be purchased for a project.
• Create complete and accurate proposals and meet the company's goals for profitability within the time frame allowed.
• Create cost estimates that cover the entire cost of a project including labor, parts made in-house, parts purchased from suppliers, and other associated costs.
• Produce and modify concept and layout drawings, either 2D or 3D, required for the proposal.
• Travel as required to customers or vendors.
• Meet with company management to review proposals before delivery to the customer and implement recommended changes.
• Research, study, and propose the use of new technologies and processes.
• Create and maintain internal databases of reference information from previous projects. Modify and update existing proposals.
• Recommend changes in procedures, design, or equipment where necessary.
• Upon receipt of an order, relay all pertinent information to the project team needed to successfully execute the project.
• Participate in design reviews and customer meetings as needed throughout the production of the project.
• Comply with company policy and all quality and safety regulations.

Requirements

• Associate's degree in a related field, such as electronics, robot or automation technology, and five years of experience; or bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering and three years of experience.
• Experience using or applying various industrial or automation equipment, such as robots, electric motors, servo motors, conveyors, PLCs and related control systems, specialty machines, gearboxes, pneumatics, bearings, etc.