Application Engineer

Allient; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Allient Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma is seeking an Applications Engineer to join our team. You will engage with customers to define requirements for motors, drives, gearboxes, and related systems, acting as liaison between customers, distributors, and reps.

The role focuses on cost estimates, quotations, and supporting analyses for new and existing products, with emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, documentation, and compliance with ITAR and government-contract processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field.
• 3+ years in applications engineering, quoting, cost analysis, or related roles.
• Experience creating cost estimates and customer proposals.
• Ability to read drawings and customer specifications.
• Strong communication with internal/external stakeholders.
• Proficient with MS Office and ERP/MRP familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Develop and prepare cost estimates, quotations, bids, and supporting analyses for new and existing products.
• Review requirements to identify missing information, unclear scope, assumptions, risks, and cost drivers.
• Communicate estimates, assumptions, exclusions, risks, and key cost drivers during reviews.
• Support sales volume, pricing, and margin forecasts and help evaluate price changes.
• Serve as liaison to obtain engineering specifications and related information; assist with requisitions and work orders.
• Ensure customers and sales teams have current prints, configurations, and pricing information.
• Engage customers, distributors, reps, and regional managers to understand application needs and quote requirements.
• Collect and evaluate technical and commercial inputs including drawings, specs, BOMs, and timing.
• Prepare planning estimates and detailed itemized estimates using BOMs, labor, tooling, and manufacturing factors.
• Provide technical assistance to interpret, analyze, and resolve procurement, manufacturing, installation, and field issues.
• Support quoting for regulated or contract-driven markets (aerospace, medical, DoD, ITAR, government).
• Ensure estimates consider first article, traceability, documentation, testing, and validation requirements.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to handle ITAR/export-controlled information per procedures.

Skills

Estimating & quoting

Customer communication

Reading drawings

ERP/MRP familiarity

CRM systems

Technical sales support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

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

The Applications Engineer conducts and engages with customers on a defined set of applications and solutions to determine requirements related to some manufactured products including motors, drives, gearboxes and other Allient Inc. products and systems. This individual will serve as a liaison between Allient Inc. and its customers, distributors, and reps.

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.

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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.