Process Application Engineer (AMP - Indirect)

Koch Enterprises; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Process Application Engineer, where you will play a vital role in the Sales team. With over 100 years of combined experience, this innovative firm is dedicated to providing tailored solutions in the food processing industry. Your expertise will help grow sales for key product lines while ensuring customer satisfaction through technical support and innovative designs. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with clients, develop new products, and contribute to exciting projects that shape the future of food technology. If you are passionate about engineering and eager to make an impact, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of manufacturing experience in the protein food sector.
• Demonstrable project management and sales skills.

Responsibilities

• Create a mixing database for equipment design and selection.
• Assist with new customer supplied mixing tests and documentation.

Skills

Project Management

Technical Writing

Client Interaction

Food Science Knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Inventor 3D

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Project

Job description

This will be working at the Kansas City office.

Job purpose

Ensight is currently looking for aProcess Application Engineerto join our growing team! Come join us as we offer our customers more than 100 years of combined experience in the food processing industry. We are passionate about working closely with our customers and engineering the most creative solutions to meet their particular food industry equipment needs.

Our Process Application Engineer is an integral part of the Sales team within Ensight Solutions, LLC. They are trusted to focus on growing sales for our A-One and Bridge product lines by keeping an eye on relevance and innovation for our clients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create a mixing database by product, viscosity, and by type for future equipment design and selection process.
• Assist with all new customer supplied mixing test, along with proper documentation of testing results.
• Help with new product development and testing
• Learn the food science as it applies to mixing
• Help with quoting
• Support Sales efforts by offering technical support based on application

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Engineering or similar technology; 5+ years of technical experience may substitute.

Specialized Knowledge and Experience

• At least 5 years’ manufacturing experience.
• At least 5 years’ experience in the protein food sector.
• Demonstrable project management, sales and support skills.
• Experience using AutoCAD/Inventor 3D
• Understanding of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics a plus)

Skills and Abilities

PC Skills

• Microsoft Word – proficient level
• Microsoft Excel – proficient level
• Microsoft PowerPoint – proficient level
• Microsoft Outlook – proficient level
• Microsoft Project – beginner level, preferred

Other Skills

• Technical competency, in engineering preferred
• Technical writing skills – to aid in developing the database
• Ability to interact competently with clients and coworkers at all levels of the organization.
• Requires the verbal skills to probe and ask questions to ensure understanding of requirements, participate in teams, and communicate technical issues to non-technical personnel.
• Must be able to interact professionally, appropriately, and courteously with customers, co-workers and other outside parties.

Travel

Physical requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and must be able to talk and hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and depth perception.

Must observe safety procedures and use equipment and materials properly; must wear safety glasses and steel toe boots.

Direct reports

This position has no direct reports.

Additional Information

This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. While it is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different duties/tasks be performed. I have read, understand and can perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.