Applications Engineering Manager
About The Position
The Application Engineering Manager is responsible for leading application engineering activities to support customer acquisition, project execution, and commercial growth, with a strong focus on water membrane and filtration solutions. This role serves as a technical leader and people manager, partnering closely with Sales and Commercial teams to deliver customer-specific solutions, oversee pilot trials, manage technical projects, and ensure consistent global engineering standards. The position provides leadership across the full project lifecycle—from tendering and design through commissioning and after-sales support—while developing a high-performing applications engineering team.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, or related)
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant application or engineering experience
- Experience supporting customer facing technical solutions
- Strong technical and analytical problem solving skills
- Excellent communication and customer facing presentation abilities
- Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and team development skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast paced environment
- Willingness to travel approximately 20 to 30 percent
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of filtration, membrane, or process based systems preferred
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain technical standards, design guidelines, and best practices for assigned product groups
- Approve product releases for customer projects and support complex technical requests
- Ensure technical documentation, manuals, and installation guides are accurate and current
- Authorize product changes related to technical specifications and applications
- Provide advanced technical support to Sales during customer engagements and negotiations
- Lead technical project activities including scope, scheduling, budgeting, and execution
- Assign and manage project resources, including internal teams and external partners
- Support customer trials, pilot installations, troubleshooting, and onsite commissioning
- Lead, coach, and develop application engineering team members
- Manage departmental budgets and initiate corrective actions as needed
- Prepare and oversee 8D reports and manage technical complaints
- Coordinate technical activities with Sales, Operations, Quality, and R and D
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
