Applications Engineer

Wallace Hind Selection LTD; Derby; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A British manufacturing firm is seeking a qualified Applications Engineer to support the sales team and clients. The role involves technical sales support, producing layouts using CAD, and project management. Ideal candidates will have a Mechanical Engineering background and experience in proposals engineering, especially in the food sector. This position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

8% Pension

DIS

Qualifications

• You MUST be a qualified Mechanical Engineer with CAD and technical drawing skills.
• Experience in applications or proposals engineering is ideal, especially in the food industry.
• Demonstrate initiative, creativity, and ambition for career progression.

Responsibilities

• Work with the senior sales team and the design engineering team internally.
• Provide technical sales support and produce layouts and quotes using CAD.
• Conduct project management post sale and assist in product trials.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering

CAD skills

Technical drawing

Project management

Education

Qualified Mechanical Engineer

Job description

Overview

A superb opportunity for either an experienced Applications or Proposals Engineer, or a qualified Mechanical Engineer with CAD or technical drawing skills who wants to get into a client facing Applications / Technical Sales Support Engineer role with a British manufacturer of product, materials and ingredients handling machinery and systems, supplying the food and other processing markets.

BASIC SALARY: up to £45,000

Benefits

• 8% Pension
• DIS

Location

Factory based in Staffordshire so ideally you will live within an hour of Stoke-on-Trent

Commutable locations

• Stoke-on-Trent
• Birmingham
• Manchester
• Derby
• Crewe
• Stafford
• Newcastle-under-Lyme

Job description

Applications Engineer, Proposals Engineer - handling machinery & systems, capital equipment

Role summary

This is an Applications / Proposals Engineer role where you will be working closely with the senior sales team and the design engineering team internally and clients and suppliers externally. The role will be multi faceted encompassing Applications Engineering and technical sales support to the sales team and clients. You will be using CAD to produce layouts and quotes and doing some project management post sale. You will also be involved in product trials.

Person specification

• You WILL be a qualified Mechanical Engineer with CAD and / technical drawing skills and experience.
• You WILL ideally have some applications or proposals engineering experience working for an industrial, engineering or manufacturing company, ideally supplying capital equipment to the food industry.
• You will have engineering initiative and creativity, and be ambitious for a career move.

The company

A well established British manufacturer of standard and bespoke product, materials and ingredients handling machinery and systems supplied to the food and other processing markets. There is good management culture and they have invested heavily in technology to support the team and clients.

Prospects

There is a genuine chance to progress to into either a more senior engineering role or into a field sales role if successful.

Interested?

Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgment of your application.

Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

REF: MPH18380, Wallace Hind Selection