Applications Engineer

Hawkins Careers•Loves Park, IL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Applications Engineer provides in-house resources that support both Sales and Operations regarding project sales and project execution in house.

Requirements

Minimum of BS (in order of preference) Mechanical Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Life Sciences / Environmental Engineering
Minimum 5 Years within the Water Treatment Industry or related Industry.
Technical Expertise with ability to understand Mechanical, Electrical and Process requirements.
Hands on / field style aptitude.
Expert use of PC and electronic software and tools for design, calculations, charts, graphs, word, spread sheets, scheduling, process design, etc.
CAD Software ability in AutoCAD or SolidWorks.
Excellent communicator in both spoken and created document formats.
Ability to work with many different people and personalities.
Detail oriented.

Responsibilities

In-house support to outside sales personnel and sales representatives regarding equipment and services sale to clients and customers.
Create unity between divisional sales groups and market / proposal offerings for a consistent, unified sales approach.
Provide detail expertise to sales in process design, equipment selection and costing.
Respond and work with customers as directed by the assigned salesperson when required during the sales process.
Travel to customer’s sites for review of plant layouts, equipment locations, process hook ups, moving and setting of equipment, etc.
Provide quick turn around with standard templates, costing files, data, process reports, etc.
Provide overview process documents (PFD, Basic Layout) and costing for sales revenue and margin review by the salesperson.
Provide specification review with comments & clarifications for basis of proposal and equipment offerings.
Provide contract review and T&C review for sales comment and/or inclusion in proposals.
Provide detailed costing breakdowns per equipment and disciplines for sales review and price / margin determination.
Provide process documents and costing that is transferable to operations / engineering for use at KO for project execution after the sale.
Complete and execute the KO meeting after the sale with support of outside salesperson.
Provide design guidance on equipment and systems as it pertains to the customer and their requirements against what was sold.
Provide client schedules and requirements for equipment and system lead times as it relates to what was sold per discipline, i.e. equipment shipments, site installation, service and startup.
Provide vendor quotes, skid and fabrication quotes, fab shop selections and freight and shipment quotes and details if required.
Other duties as assigned.