Field Applications Associate Principal Engineer

Job Posting Start Date 10-01-2024 Job Posting End Date 10-06-2024

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Job Summary

We are looking to add a Field Applications Associate Principal Engineer to our Power team. This person will be located in Texas and will report to the Sr Director of Sales Operations for our Power team.

What a typical day looks like:

• Use technical knowledge of products and associated development tools to assist customers on complex issues.
• Contribute to product development by determining customer product needs and translating these needs into new product recommendations and specifications.
• Contribute to development of complex product roadmaps.
• Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with product and business development teams.
• Provide technical expertise during product development by determining customer product needs and translating these needs into new product recommendations and specifications.
• Review customer requirements, identify and communicate potential issues and provide recommendations that will meet both Flex capability and customers’ specifications.
• Identify and communicate existing and potential design issues both internally and externally.
• Coordinate product integration efforts between component suppliers, Flex and the customer.
• Develop and present technical seminars for customers and sales personnel to promote employer's manufacturing capabilities, services, available technologies, manufacturing process and quality.
• Work with customer representatives to coordinate vendor qualification surveys. 
• Provide best in class complex technical support by answering and closing all customer and program management technical support questions related to manufacturing capabilities including: design, fabrication and assembly abilities.
• Define initial project/product scope and prepare project plans to meet customers expectations.
• Prepare detailed project plans by documenting customers requirements and incorporating design and manufacturing capabilities in order to meet customers’ expectations.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires 10+ years of related experience as a Field Application Engineer
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrates advanced operations, technical and people and/or process skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of the function and a thorough understanding of Flex and related business.
• Demonstrates knowledge of multiple functional technologies/ processes, industries or functions and understanding of interdependencies of such processes at the site.
• Impacts the near-term (quarterly/semi-annual) operational success of the function.
• Creates functional processes or technologies.
• Executes functional strategic plans and objectives at the site.
• Demonstrates experience in leading major initiatives and provides input to those initiatives.
• Exercises independent judgment using ambiguously defined procedures and policies; may propose/provide input to defining methods, standards, policies, and procedures.

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

Pay Range (Applicable to US Remote). Due to this role being remote, the actual pay range will vary depending on the geographical location of the candidate

$169,200.00 USD - $232,700.00 USD Annual

Job Category

Design, Process & Technology Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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