Lead Applications Engineer - Sealing Solutions

JR United Kingdom; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

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24.04.2025

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08.06.2025

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Senior Applications Manager - Sealing Solutions

Based in Manchester or Hertfordshire

Client Overview:

Manufacturer of polymer products offering semi-finished materials, complex machined components, injection moulded parts, seals & slide bearings that are supplied to a range of sectors including Aerospace, Medical, Oil & Gas & Renewables. The business offers an extensive product portfolio for a diverse spectrum of demanding applications, which service a worldwide customer base.

With manufacturing sites and sales offices in the UK and Europe, and partners globally, we aim to offer our customers cost-effective solutions at the highest quality from material selection through to product design, manufacturing, and distribution.

Role Overview:

As an Application Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development, and introduction of sealing solutions and polymeric valve products within the Fluid Management business line.

Responsibilities:

1. Engage with customers during various phases of the sales cycle to deeply understand their specific design requirements and provide them with class-leading solutions.
2. Design and develop bespoke fluid handling products alongside the product manager and in line with product line strategy.
3. Take a leadership role in design validation and qualification testing, planning research and development efforts, and managing sub-contracted resources.
4. Work closely with internal and customer engineers/technical teams to help optimize material and design elements needed for optimum sealing conditions such as lubricant, materials, fluid level, shaft and housing hardness, surface finish, tolerance, chamfer, eccentricity, etc.
5. Collaborate with the R&D team to support developing new materials and formulations.
6. Conduct comprehensive design validation activities for valves, including stress calculations, tolerance stack-up analysis, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and other relevant design validation methodologies.
7. Support sales and marketing functions with product-specific presentations and communications, either through online webinars or customer visits.
8. Manage all aspects of product life, including factory awareness of customer feedback and requirements.
9. Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
10. The role may require travel to and from all UK sites and Romania.
11. Carry out any additional work as reasonably requested by your line manager.

Person Specification:

1. Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in a related design or technical field; Project management qualifications a plus.
2. Demonstrable understanding of sealing design parameters such as temperature impact, friction, closing force, load direction, and physical/mechanical properties.
3. Excellent understanding and experience of engineering design, modelling, and simulation software, such as AutoCAD and Inventor.
4. Knowledge of DFMEA and similar structured approaches.
5. Experience in seal designing, material selection, and seal testing is preferred.
6. Experience in high-temperature polymers (PTFE, PFA, PEEK) is a plus.
7. Mechanical aptitude, ability to utilize measuring equipment (i.e., dial calipers and micrometers).
8. Ability to design seal configuration and animate the moving parts within the working envelope is preferred.
9. Experience in Oil & Gas, Aerospace, or Medical is preferred.
10. Experience/Knowledge of using composite in fluid management applications is a plus.

For reasons of better legibility, the simultaneous use of the language forms male, female, and diverse (f/m/d) is avoided. All personal designations apply equally to all genders.

For EU roles, candidates must be eligible to work and live in the European Union. Proof of eligibility will be required with your application.

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