About the role
The primary mission of the Applications Engineer (AE) is to evaluate and execute new technologies into commercial processes.
Responsibilities
- The AE balances technical ability and personal relationship skills to provide an interface between the customers’ engineering staff and the Web Industries’ technical staff.
- The AE has succeeded when new technologies are successfully qualified and included in customer’s material specifications and/or Web’s PCDs.
- The AE also supports efforts to improve existing processes by participating in teams and coordinating technical details with customers and suppliers.
- Meeting with customers’ engineering staff to understand and document product requirements, features, benefits, and performance characteristics.
- Planning, coordinating, and documenting trials.
- Working with customers to identify and specify appropriate process and/or method.
- Developing manufacturing methods and coordinating the design and qualification of process lines.
- Creating product specifications, quality plans, test methods, work; instructions, training plans, metrics and other documents and systems that ensure a smooth release to manufacturing once development is complete.
Requirements
- B.S. in an Engineering related field
- 5-10 years in process/quality/development engineering
- Experience with flexible materials processing (extruding, coating, printing, laminating)
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- Skill with Quality, Lean, and Six-Sigma methodologies such as FMEA, DOE, SPC, etc.