Application Engineer Market Development - Mining

Henkel; Rocky Hill (CT); On-site; USD 98,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Work-Life Balance

Financial: 401k matching and bonus

Family Support

Career Growth

Job summary

Henkel is seeking a senior leader to head the North America Application Engineering organization within Adhesive Technologies. You’ll shape strategy and drive profitable growth across the ACM portfolio, collaborating with Sales, Product Development, Marketing, and Business Development to translate customer needs into differentiated solutions.

You’ll build and mentor a high-performing team, guide regional priorities, and accelerate the transfer of application knowledge while ensuring safety,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Proven leadership experience managing technical, application engineering, product development, or customer-facing engineering teams in manufacturing, adhesives, specialty chemicals, or industrial environments.
• Strong ability to influence and collaborate across functions, effectively connecting technical expertise with commercial objectives and customer value creation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the North America Application Engineering organization, setting the strategic direction and execution plan to drive profitable growth across the ACM portfolio.
• Partner closely with Sales, Product Development, Marketing, and Business Development teams to identify market opportunities and translate customer needs into differentiated technical solutions.
• Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of application engineers, fostering technical excellence, innovation, and a strong customer-centric culture.
• Drive customer engagement through technical consultation, application validation, troubleshooting, and support of key strategic accounts and growth initiatives.
• Establish and execute regional Application Engineering priorities that align with global business objectives, technology roadmaps, and commercial strategies.
• Accelerate the development, codification, and transfer of application expertise across teams, enabling scalable deployment of best practices and technical knowledge.
• Lead technical support activities for new product introductions, customer trials, qualification programs, and commercialization efforts to maximize business impact.
• Manage departmental resources, budgets, laboratories, equipment, and project priorities while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or related technical discipline

Job description

About this Position

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping thefuture through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trustedbrands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and ourcutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore newpaths and grow.

This position is with our Adhesive Technologies business unit –where we empower our people to transform industries and provide our customerswith a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functionalcoatings.

Dare to learn new skills, advance inyour career and make an impact at Henkel.

What you´ll do

• Lead the North America Application Engineering organization, setting the strategic direction and execution plan to drive profitable growth across the (ACM) portfolio.
• Partner closely with Sales, Product Development, Marketing, and Business Development teams to identify market opportunities and translate customer needs into differentiated technical solutions.
• Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of application engineers, fostering technical excellence, innovation, and a strong customer-centric culture.
• Drive customer engagement through technical consultation, application validation, troubleshooting, and support of key strategic accounts and growth initiatives.
• Establish and execute regional Application Engineering priorities that align with global business objectives, technology roadmaps, and commercial strategies.
• Accelerate the development, codification, and transfer of application expertise across teams, enabling scalable deployment of best practices and technical knowledge.
• Lead technical support activities for new product introductions, customer trials, qualification programs, and commercialization efforts to maximize business impact.
• Manage departmental resources, budgets, laboratories, equipment, and project priorities while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.

What makes you a good fit

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Proven leadership experience managing technical, application engineering, product development, or customer-facing engineering teams in a manufacturing, adhesives, specialty chemicals, or industrial environment.
• Strong ability to influence and collaborate across functions, effectively connecting technical expertise with commercial objectives and customer value creation.
• Demonstrated success leading complex projects, driving innovation, and translating market needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively from laboratory teams to executive leadership and key customers.

Some benefitss of joining Henkel

• Health Insurance: affordableplans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Work-Life Balance: Paid time offincluding sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time, flexible & hybridwork policies (depending on role), and vacation buy / sell program
• Financial: 401k matching,employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares,annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
• Family Support: 12-week genderneutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertilitysupport, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderlycare, and scholarships
• Career Growth: diverse nationaland international growth opportunities, access to thousands of skillsdevelopment courses, and tuition reimbursement

The salary rangefor this role is $97,500.00 and $135,000.00. This range represents the good‑faith minimumand maximum wages the Company reasonably expects to offer for this role at thetime of posting.In addition to base salary, this position may be eligiblefor incentive pay or other forms of compensation, as applicable. TheCompany also offers a comprehensive benefits package as described above. Actualcompensation will be based on factors such as the candidate’s skills,experience, education, training, and work location. This posting is intended tocomply with all applicable state and local pay transparency laws.

Henkel does notaccept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies.Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore,Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of anunsolicited referral.

At Henkel, wecome from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. Webelieve the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Henkel is anequal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard torace, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status,genetic information, and other legally protected categories.