Application Engineer

Allient Incorporated; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Allient Incorporated in Tulsa, OK is seeking an Applications Engineer to join our team. You will develop cost estimates, prepare bids, review requirements, and support sales with technical and commercial inputs.

The role requires a mechanical or electrical engineering degree, 3+ years in applications engineering or related fields, and proficiency with ERP/MRP systems, reading drawings, and customer specifications. This is a full-time on-site position serving regulated markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field.
• 3+ years in applications engineering, quoting, estimating, or related roles.
• Experience developing cost estimates, quotations, or customer proposals.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings and specs.
• Strong communication with customers, sales, and internal teams.
• Proficiency with MS Office and ERP/MRP, CRM systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and prepare cost estimates, quotations, bids, and analyses for products.
• Review requirements, identify missing information, risks, and assumptions.
• Communicate estimates, open items, and price drivers during reviews.
• Support sales with pricing, margins, and market conditions.
• Serve as liaison for engineering specs and production planning.
• Ensure customers have current prints, configurations, and pricing.
• Engage customers and regional teams to understand needs and quotes.
• Gather inputs from drawings, BOMs, volumes, timing, and qualifications.
• Prepare planning estimates and detailed itemized estimates from specs.
• Provide technical assistance to resolve procurement and field issues.
• Support quoting for regulated markets (aerospace, DoD, ITAR).
• Ensure compliance with first article, traceability, and validation needs.

Skills

Quoting & cost estimating

Customer communication

Data analysis

MS Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

CRM systems

Engineering documentation tools

Job description

Application Engineer

Full-time Regular Indirect Tulsa, OK, US

Allient Inc. is in growth mode and currently seeking an Applications Engineer to join our team at our facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma!

Responsibilities:

• Develop and prepare cost estimates, quotations, bids, and supporting analyses for new and existing products
• Review requirements and estimate inputs to identify missing information, unclear scope, assumptions, technical risks, cost drivers, schedule impacts, and items requiring customer or internal clarification.
• Communicate onthe estimate basis, open items, assumptions, exclusions, risks, and key cost drivers during quote and opportunity reviews.
• Support sales volume, pricing, and standard margin forecasts and help evaluate price changes, share opportunities, and market conditions.
• Serve as a liaison to obtain and provide engineering specifications and related information and assist with expediting material requisitions and production work orders as appropriate.
• Ensure customers and sales teams have current prints, product configurations, quotation assumptions, and pricing information for quoted products.
• Engage customers, distributors, representatives, agents, the Solution Center, and Regional Sales Managers to understand application needs and quote requirements.
• Collect and evaluate technical and commercial inputs, including drawings, specifications, product configuration, volumes, timing, operating conditions, qualification needs, and customer expectations.
• Prepare planning estimates and detailed itemized estimates using drawings, specs, bills of materials, labor assumptions, tooling needs, manufacturing requirements, testing, and other cost factors.
• Provide technical assistance to interpret, analyze, and resolve procurement, manufacturing, installation, trial operation, and field application issues.

• Support quoting and applications activity for regulated or contract-driven markets, including aerospace, medical device, DoD, ITAR-controlled, and government contract environments.
• Ensure estimates consider applicable first article, material traceability, customer-specific documentation, testing, qualification, and validation requirements.

Coordinate with the appropriate internal stakeholders so customer-sensitive, ITAR-controlled, export-controlled, or government contract information is handled according to company procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering , preferably Mechanical or Electrical. A related technical degree with equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Three or more years of experience in applications engineering, quoting, estimating, cost analysis, technical sales support, manufacturing support, commercial operations, program support, or a related technical-commercial role.
• Experience developing or supporting cost estimates, quotations, bids, customer proposals, or application solutions for technical manufactured products and systems.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, customer specifications, technical procedures, statements of work, bills of material, business documents, professional journals, and applicable governmental or regulatory requirements.
• Strong ability to collect, organize, validate, and communicate information from customers, sales teams, and internal stakeholders.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills and familiarity with ERP/MRP, quoting, estimating, engineering documentation, reporting, or CRM systems.

Allient Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.