Application Engineer

Technical Prospects; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Technical Prospects is seeking an Application Engineer to join their North Yorkshire-based team. You will bridge Sales, Operations and Engineering, translating customer needs into compliant engineering solutions that meet performance goals.

The role involves supporting the full project lifecycle, including site visits, design validation, and documentation. A STEM degree and CAD experience (SolidWorks) are preferred, with a 43k–48k salary and hybrid working from the North Yorkshire office.

Qualifications

• STEM degree preferred and relevant engineering experience.
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Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Sales and customers to capture technical requirements.
• Evaluate application suitability and manage design constraints.
• Provide technical support across project lifecycle and sign-off installations.
• Produce and maintain technical specifications, BOMs, CAD drawings and project docs.
• Attend site visits to oversee installations and commissioning.

Skills

Technical liaison

Requirements capture

Root cause analysis

Education

STEM degree

Tools

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.

Application Engineer – Purpose

The Application Engineer will support sales in accurately and effectively capturing a customer’s 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 customer’s 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 customer’s 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 client’s North Yorkshire office with flexibility to work home based 1-2 days per week when possible.