ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage all mechanical, applications and electrical engineering resources related to products.
• Oversees development of drafting and design work.
• Reviews engineered-to-order (ETO) proposals, technical and business risk assessment of proposals with appropriate personnel, including customer, to satisfy inquiries about equipment capabilities.
• Perform cost analysis on specific equipment to identify areas of possible cost saving, warranty problems, etc.
• Assist in development of appropriate product bulletins, specification sheets, and sales aids to support the field sales effort and communications plan.
• Conduct sales applications meetings, ensuring timely responses to customer inquiries for ETO and design-to-order (DTO) proposals.
• Ensure proper selection and design concept modification of heat processing and environmental equipment to meet customer application and process performance requirements.
• Determine accurate costs and ensure appropriate selling price and delivery schedule of products.
• Apply broad, technical knowledge, insight, reasoning, and decision making to manage varied engineering functions; Ability to proactively seek, develop, and implement initiatives to achieve goals that are both cost effective and satisfactory to customers.
• Analyze engineering design activities and associated requirements, including various alternative approaches with respect to technical, budget, schedule, and project-specific constraints to select approaches to projects that best meet the objectives of the company, our customers, and other parties.
• Possess strong leadership skills to lead, convince, and motivate both individuals and teams to adopt and accomplish meeting complex technical and business goals. Promote independent actions of staff to improve operations and customer relations.
• Provide technical leadership, counsel, and support to staff for technological/engineering advancement. Promote and arrange for training of staff and ensure that guidance and direction are provided.
• Strong knowledge and application in heat transfer, thermodynamics and machine design fundamentals.
• Report departmental status/metrics to upper management.