Applications Engineer

Job reference - 402

Location - Andover, Hampshire

Salary - up to £55,000 + benefits

Job type - Permanent

Working Hours - Mon - Fri

We have an exciting opportunity for an Applications Engineer to join a reputable business, based in Andover Hampshire.

The role:

The Applications Engineer role is predominantly an office-based role and will be focused on the estimating and initial design of projects from £100,000.00 and upwards. The role will include client-facing meetings and site visits to support the Key Account Managers technically and to enable the successful candidate to fully understand the client's brief.

Key skills required for an Applications Engineer:

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in a similar role.

• Strong practical electrical and mechanical engineering knowledge.

• Experience in estimating high turnover capital projects in different industries

• Handling of the supply chain to ensure the company brand is upheld

• Strong attention to detail

• A balanced technical and commercial outlook

• IT skills, fluent with Outlook, Excel, & Word.

Key responsibilities for an Applications Engineer:

• Liaising and working with the Key Account Managers, Technical/Design Team, and supply chain as well as issuing RFI’s to clients on behalf of the Key Account Managers when required.

• Reading and understanding client specifications

• Estimating/costing projects from the client’s specification or Key Account Managers brief

• Ensuring the tender return deadlines set by the Key Account Manager are met

• Liaising with our supply chain to get project-specific information and quotations

• Producing quotations that are spec-compliant and ensuring we offer VE opportunities where possible whilst pointing out both opportunity and risk areas to the client and internal teams

• Writing of bid letters/tender responses as well as producing compliance documents

• Carrying out front end cost studies, designs, and feasibility studies on behalf of the Key Account Managers

• Supporting the Key Account Managers with customer meetings and site visits

• Liaising with the technical team to produce the necessary drawings and technical submittals to support our tender return

• Producing and updating internal price lists by liaising with our supply chain

• Producing of pricing tools/calculators

• Ensuring that the system wording is correct, up to date and technically compliant whilst being written in a client-friendly way

• Sitting in project handovers to explain how the projects have been designed once the order comes in

• Attending the daily, weekly, and monthly Sales & Estimating Meetings

So, if you are an Applications Engineer, or working in a similar role, and are looking for the freedom to manage your own workload without being micro-managed then please apply now!