Senior Application Engineer

About the role

The Sr. Application Engineer at Daifuku Intralogistics America Corporation performs engineering and project management duties as assigned by the Director of Application Engineering. This position involves engineering, project management, customer relationship management, and code compliance. The role also includes mentoring and training less-senior team members, collaborating with the industrial engineering team, design analysis group, Sales, and customers to define system requirements and specifications. Responsibilities include designing large, sometimes complex static, semi-automated, and automated material handling systems; specifying auxiliary equipment and systems; designing steel structures, including mezzanines, platforms, and ceiling hung steel; specifying auxiliary equipment/systems, such as compressed air systems, lighting, sprinkler systems, data networks, convenience outlets, and generating electrical requirements. The role also involves working with clients to specify peripheral equipment such as workstations, forklifts, carton erectors, case sealers, and other material handling equipment; evaluating alternative technologies; writing proposals, evaluating vendor offers, and estimating project costs; supporting Sales by visiting job sites for customer meetings and surveys; creating plans and drawings, including drawings in AutoCAD 3D and working with sheet sets; ensuring designs are compliant with relevant codes, such as building, fire, CEMA, and OSHA; reviewing the work of other department members, providing training and mentorship; identifying new technologies, equipment providers, fabricators, and subcontractors; project managing and/or engineering jobs, including building project schedules, ordering equipment, obtaining permits, contracting for installation, overseeing the installation work, testing and commissioning the system, communicating with customers, enforcing safety standards, tracking, forecasting, and reporting project financials; ensuring system integration and effectiveness and making sure they meet all requirements; helping enforce company and department project management and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Engineering, project management, customer relationship management, and code compliance
• Mentoring and training less-senior team members
• Collaborating with the industrial engineering team, design analysis group, Sales, and customers to define system requirements and specifications
• Designing large, sometimes complex static, semi-automated, and automated material handling systems
• Specifying auxiliary equipment and systems
• Designing steel structures, including mezzanines, platforms, and ceiling hung steel
• Specifying auxiliary equipment/systems, such as compressed air systems, lighting, sprinkler systems, data networks, convenience outlets, and generating electrical requirements
• Working with clients to specify peripheral equipment such as workstations, forklifts, carton erectors, case sealers, and other material handling equipment
• Evaluating alternative technologies
• Writing proposals, evaluating vendor offers, and estimating project costs
• Supporting Sales by visiting job sites for customer meetings and surveys
• Creating plans and drawings, including drawings in AutoCAD 3D and working with sheet sets
• Ensuring designs are compliant with relevant codes, such as building, fire, CEMA, and OSHA
• Reviewing the work of other department members, providing training and mentorship
• Identifying new technologies, equipment providers, fabricators, and subcontractors
• Project managing and/or engineering jobs, including building project schedules, ordering equipment, obtaining permits, contracting for installation, overseeing the installation work, testing and commissioning the system, communicating with customers, enforcing safety standards, tracking, forecasting, and reporting project financials
• Ensuring system integration and effectiveness and making sure they meet all requirements
• Helping enforce company and department project management and engineering standards

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Civil, or Industrial Engineering or equivalent experience
• Minimum 10 years of material handling industry experience
• AutoCAD and 3D drawing preferred
• Knowledge of material handling
• Knowledge of project management and minimum of one engineering discipline
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and, after training, Wynright’s Microsoft CRM and NiC conveyor estimating tool
• Knowledge of financial accounting preferred
• Requires hands-on skills, written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, and organizational skills to manage projects to successful completion
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to learn new technologies
• Ability to work weekends and evenings as required, particularly for “go-live” events
• Federal Contractor

Qualifications

• Hands-on skills, written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, and organizational skills to manage projects to successful completion
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to learn new technologies
• Ability to work weekends and evenings as required, particularly for “go-live” events

Skills

• Knowledge of material handling
• Knowledge of project management and minimum of one engineering discipline
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and, after training, Wynright’s Microsoft CRM and NiC conveyor estimating tool
• Knowledge of financial accounting

Benefits

• Not specified

Pay

• Not specified

Schedule

• Not specified