Applications Engineer - Customer-Focused Solutions

Douglas Electrical Components Inc.; Randolph Township (NJ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Douglas Electrical Components Inc. in Randolph, NJ seeks an Applications Engineer to serve as a technical liaison between customers, sales, engineering, vendors and manufacturing to develop and support custom product solutions.

The role focuses on evaluating application requirements, preparing technical and commercial quotations, creating engineering documentation, and ensuring smooth introduction of new products to production while meeting performance, quality, cost and delivery targets.

Qualifications

• Mechanical engineering degree preferred.
• 5+ years in manufacturing engineering environment.
• 2+ years’ experience in customer facing role a plus.

Responsibilities

• Direct interaction with customers, vendors, manufacturer’s representatives and sales personnel for the purpose of determining the application requirements and most effective design of products.
• Develop quotations by creating a design that meets customer’s technical, price and timeline expectations. Obtaining quotes from vendors. Estimating direct labor based on historic assemblies. Determining tooling needs. Identifying unknowns and planning R&D needs.
• Providing a cost estimate detailing quantities, material costs, direct labor, tooling needs, final sales pricing and estimated delivery as well as providing sketches/drawings as requested
• Establish production drawings, component drawings, purchase specifications and bill of materials for new products
• Execute engineering change orders for manufacturing prints
• Assist in transition of new projects to the manufacturing floor. Help to coordinate vendor, tooling and production cell setup timelines in order to meet customer expectations and Douglas commitments.
• Work with manufacturing group to ensure build is executed within customer timeline expectations and built to design specifications.

Skills

MS Office

Excellent verbal and written comms.

Organization and prioritization

Education

Mechanical engineering degree (preferred)

Electrical or other engineering degree considered

5+ years in manufacturing engineering environment

2+ years’ experience in customer facing role

Tools

AutoCAD

SolidWorks

Job description

Douglas Electrical Components Inc. in Randolph, NJ seeks an Applications Engineer to serve as a technical liaison between customers, sales, engineering, vendors and manufacturing to develop and support custom product solutions.

The role focuses on evaluating application requirements, preparing technical and commercial quotations, creating engineering documentation, and ensuring smooth introduction of new products to production while meeting performance, quality, cost and delivery targets.