Application Engineer

igus Inc.; Rumford (RI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary with ongoing成长

Company-paid HSA medical plan

Company-paid Dental

Company-paid Life

Supplemental Life Insurance

Vision Insurance

Short and Long Term Disability

Retirement with Company contributions

20 PTO days per year

9 holidays

Subsidized lunch on-site

Job summary

igus Inc. in Rumford, RI is seeking an Application Engineer to design and configure readychain and readycable energy chain systems tailored to each application. You will coordinate multiple projects, lead process improvements, and support sales with technical inputs.

You will negotiate, introduce new products, and collaborate with manufacturing and customer support to reduce costs and improve technology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Knowledge of wire harnessing processes and industry standards.
• Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Self-starter, motivated, team focused and results driven.
• Familiar with best manufacturing and assembly practices.
• Familiar with Item Master and Bill of Materials.
• Understanding of engineering change orders, product development and value engineering.
• Strong product technology, problem solving and customer orientation.

Responsibilities

• Assist with configuration and design of readychain® and readycable® products.
• Review customer drawings to identify cost-effective manufacturing approaches.
• Coordinate with electronics and material suppliers and internal sales for quotes.
• Calculate material and labor costs, tooling and test requirements for quotations.
• Develop and document assembly drawings and manufacturing processes.
• Coordinate with New Product Introduction, First Article builds and inspections.
• Communicate with sales/customers to ensure technical needs are met.
• Resolve product quality issues with quality, sales or customers.
• Provide manufacturing support by addressing technical issues.
• Collaborate with Process Engineering for continuous improvement of techniques.
• Coordinate Engineering Change Orders and Documentation Changes with Operations teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Self-starter

Team oriented

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Time management

Quality mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

CAD tools

MS Visio

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Item Master / BOM

Job description

As an Application Engineer you will be responsible for our business area of readychain® and readycable®. Together with customers, you design/ configure ready-to-install energy chain systems that are individually tailored to an application or machine. You will demonstrate your organizational talent in coordinating and prioritizing a number of simultaneous projects in different statuses. Smart and creative process consulting for clients is part of what you do to reduce their costs and/or improve their technology. With communication skills, you lead price negotiations, new product introduction, manufacturing, and customer support.

Responsibilities

• Assist with configuration/ design of readychain® and readycable® products.
• Perform detailed review of customer drawings to identify best manufacturing approach with cost-effective component selection.
• Interfacing with the electronics and material suppliers, and internally with sales, as required to solicit competitive material quotes.
• Calculate material and labor cost, tooling and test requirements, and pricing in support of product quotation requests.
• Develop/ document assembly drawings and manufacturing processes.
• Coordinate with multiple teams including: New Product Introduction, First Article builds, and First Article Inspections.
• Communicate with sales and/ or customers to ensure their technical needs are being met.
• Interact with quality, sales, and/ or customers with product quality issues to find the best solution moving forward.
• Provide support to the manufacturing teams by resolving technical issues related to the product, assembly process, and tooling.
• Work closely with Process Engineering for continuous improvement of techniques, process documentation, tooling, assembly aids, etc.
• Coordinate and execute Engineering Change Orders, Waiver/ Deviations, and Documentation Change Orders with assistance from multiple Operations Teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
• Knowledge of wire harnessing processes, tooling and industry standards.
• Strong technical skills: able to present technical concepts; provide customers with hands‑on technique using our products.
• Self‑starter; motivated, team focused and results driven.
• Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Familiar with best manufacturing and assembly practices/ techniques.
• Familiar with Item Master and Bill of Materials.
• Requires demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing engineering discipline, theories, practices and principles.
• Requires knowledge necessary to perform the job function such as an understanding of the engineering change order process, product development process, value engineering etc.
• Strong Product technology, change management, problem solving, communication skills, customer orientation, personal effectiveness, team skills, and quality.
• Knowledge of CAD tools.
• Requires additional knowledge of systems and software necessary such as MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with ongoing growth opportunities
• Complete benefits package:
• Co. paid HSA medical plan
• Co. paid Dental
• Co. paid Life
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Retirement with Company contributions
• 20 Paid Time Off days per year, plus 9 holidays
• Subsidized lunch on-site