Applications Engineer in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Applications Engineer – European FM
Location: Sheffield
Salary: Competitive
L.B. Foster Company is committed to provide superior products and services to our customers, an entrepreneurial climate to our employees, and exceptional value to our stakeholders through progressive management and meaningful change.
Our Vision is to deliver to our customers quality, timely solutions and be responsive to our changing markets. We will accomplish this by Fostering Excellence in our employees - by providing tools, training, and innovation to ensure the L B Foster Company will prosper as an Industry Leader now and in the future.
Position Summary (Purpose): We are looking for someone newly qualified in any Engineering Discipline fluent German & English. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing the successful application of Friction management solutions in Europe based on customer requirements. The Applications Engineer will work closely with the Sales teams, Project Management and Engineering teams to deliver the technical solution for projects.
Essential Functions:
• Investigate product and solution failures, rectify them and analyse trends
• Develop a strong technical understanding of products and solutions
• Take part in the continuous improvement process
• Plan, undertake and report on field trials as appropriate
• Work with Sales and Engineering to create a solution that will meet the customer requirements
• Identify and manage technical risks for the proposed solution
• Ensure that the system sign off criteria are understood and agreed with the customer at the start of the project (possibly test specification)
• Communicate the customer requirements to the design engineers clearly and accurately so that the design is created right first time
• Ensure that solutions are being built to the customer requirements
• Ensure the successful installation and commissioning of systems
• Support the engineers with the installation and commissioning where needed
• Attend customer meetings as an applications expert
• Provide technical input to each of the business functions as required
Minimum Qualifications:
Skills, Experience and Education:
• Minimum BEng/ BSc in an Engineering discipline
• Able to travel both in the UK and abroad for customer meetings, installations and commissioning
• Ability to represent the company in front of customers
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Able to prioritise and plan ahead
• Excellent command of both English & German languages, inclusive of report writing
Other Requirements:
• Capable of working safely in a railway operational environment
• The wish to travel and communicate with clients
Please click the ‘Apply’ button to submit your application.
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