Application Engineer

Technical Prospects Ltd; Knaresborough; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Job summary

Technical Prospects Ltd is seeking an Application Engineer in North Yorkshire to join the technical department. You will act as the key technical link between Sales, Operations, and Engineering to customise products and deliver solutions that meet objectives and customer expectations.

The role supports sales in capturing technical requirements, translating concepts into deliverables, and providing technical oversight throughout installations. Flexible home-based days are available.

Qualifications

• STEM related Degree is preferred.
• Experience gained within a relevant engineering role i.e. Production Engineer, Application Engineer, Design Engineer, Product Development Engineer or similar.
• CAD experience, ideally SolidWorks, skilled in designing mechanical or electrical solutions would be advantageous.
• Be an effective communicator who is comfortable liaising with customers to better understand their pain points and identify best fit solution.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Sales and customers to capture and interpret a customers technical requirements.
• Evaluate application suitability, identify technical risks, compliance considerations, and design constraints.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex application issues, supporting root cause analysis, investigations, and corrective actions where required.
• Maintain accurate project records and ensure all engineering activities comply with relevant quality, safety, and industry standards.
• Produce and maintain engineering documentation, including technical specifications, BOMs, CAD models, technical drawings, and supporting project documentation.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, records, and activity tracking.
• Support the development of technical concepts to enable accurate costing, planning, and solution feasibility.
• Contributing to product development and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Attend site visits to provide technical oversight of installation, support commissioning, and conduct investigations where required.

Education

STEM related Degree

Tools

CAD SolidWorks

Job description

Application Engineer Offering Circa. £43,000 - £48,000 Basic Salary plus Great Benefits! Our client is an established and highly respected manufacturing business based in North Yorkshire. Due to continued growth, they are currently seeking an Application Engineer to join their technical department. The Application Engineer will play a critical role in providing technical and application engineering expertise, acting as the key technical link between Sales, Operations, and Engineering, to customise products and deliver solutions that meet agreed objectives, performance requirements, and customer expectations. The Application Engineer will support sales in accurately and effectively capturing a customers requirements from a technical nature. This will help create a technical concept, ensuring customer requirements are clearly understood, technically assessed, and translated into safe, compliant, and deliverable engineering solutions.

Application Engineer Purpose The Application Engineer will support sales in accurately and effectively capturing a customers requirements from a technical nature. This will help create a technical concept, ensuring customer requirements are clearly understood, technically assessed, and translated into safe, compliant, and deliverable engineering solutions. The successful candidate will provide technical and application engineering support throughout the entire project lifecycle, assist in translating a customers technical concept into a tangible solution, support customers with embedding products, and provide technical oversight and sign-off of installations. They will work collaboratively across multiple departments, helping to ensure solutions are delivered efficiently, meet customer expectations, and comply with all relevant technical and regulatory standards.

Application Engineer Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Sales and customers to capture and interpret a customers technical requirements.
• Evaluate application suitability, identify technical risks, compliance considerations, and design constraints.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex application issues, supporting root cause analysis, investigations, and corrective actions where required.
• Maintain accurate project records and ensure all engineering activities comply with relevant quality, safety, and industry standards.
• Produce and maintain engineering documentation, including technical specifications, BOMs, CAD models, technical drawings, and supporting project documentation.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, records, and activity tracking.
• Support the development of technical concepts to enable accurate costing, planning, and solution feasibility.
• Contributing to product development and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Attend site visits to provide technical oversight of installation, support commissioning, and conduct investigations where required.

Application Engineer Candidate

• STEM related Degree is preferred.
• Experience gained within a relevant engineering role i.e. Production Engineer, Application Engineer, Design Engineer, Product Development Engineer or similar.
• Solid understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering principles would be ideal.
• Experience gained within the automotive, transportation, aerospace, forestry, agricultural or earthmoving industry would be highly beneficial.
• Proven ability to interpret technical requirements and translate them into practical, deliverable engineering solutions.
• CAD experience, ideally SolidWorks, skilled in designing mechanical or electrical solutions would be advantageous.
• Be an effective communicator who is comfortable liaising with customers to better understand their pain points and identify best fit solution.
• With strong Microsoft skills, able to create detailed and presentable customer-facing technical documentation.

The Application Engineer position is offering £43,000 - £48,000 basic salary plus great benefits! This is a full-time, permanent position, working Monday Friday 8.30am 4.30pm. Based at our clients North Yorkshire office with flexibility to work home based 1-2 days per week when possible.