Senior Manager, Customer Engineering

Applied Materials, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 88,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Stock awards

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a district leadership professional to develop and maintain customer relationships, lead engineers, and drive strategic sales and service initiatives across the region.

This role focuses on salary planning, performance management, and aligning with product divisions to ensure successful, cost-efficient project delivery. The position offers a competitive base salary in the advertised range, plus eligibility for bonuses and stock awards within a

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains customer relationship with all relevant individuals in his/her district at all times, at all levels.
• Performs regular customer visits.
• Manages, coaches and directs all customer engineers in his/her district.
• Responsible for salary planning, career planning, corrective actions where necessary, establishes objectives and performance appraisals.
• Gives formal updates to all employees. Business, new hires, new products.
• Can invite any guest speaker.
• Initiates reports necessary for the business.
• Be the prime interface with the Product Divisions: tech support, training, spares, reliability.
• Monitors the CSD Award Program with quarterly results (election, announcements).
• Monitors the “mentor” program so that all new engineers have a defined mentor.
• Executes escalation procedure.
• Responsible for account planning with District Sales Engineer.
• Provides support plan for system sales to CSD Management, Sales, Field Engineering.
• Responsible for financial forecast for his/her district.
• Responsible for cost efficiency with the district. Measured by the financial result.
• Responsible for system installation; planning, reporting and execution, pre-facility meeting, start-up meeting, process support identification.
• Manages RMA procedure.
• Measurement of the engineers on their effectiveness.
• Manages accuracy, understanding and update of Customer Engineer hours tracking.
• Personal cross check and signature, measures customer engineers, takes corrective action with customer engineers.
• Functional Knowledge Works on issues where analysis of situation or data requires review of relevant factors
• Business Expertise Receives assignments in the form of objectives with goals and the process by which to meet goals. Recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies. Management reviews work to measure meeting of objectives.
• Leadership Provides direction to employees according to established policies and management guidance. Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
• Problem Solving Exercises judgment within defined procedures and policies to determine appropriate action.
• Impact Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results will cause delays in schedules.
• Interpersonal Skills Interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, conducting presentations of technical information concerning specific projects or schedules. Position requires understanding of Applied Materials global Standards of Business Conduct and compliance with these standards at all times. This includes demonstrating the highest level of ethical conduct reflecting Applied Materials' core values.

Skills

Customer relationship

Regional leadership

Sales planning

Coaching engineers

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a district leadership professional to develop and maintain customer relationships, lead engineers, and drive strategic sales and service initiatives across the region.

This role focuses on salary planning, performance management, and aligning with product divisions to ensure successful, cost-efficient project delivery. The position offers a competitive base salary in the advertised range, plus eligibility for bonuses and stock awards within a