Summary
An Application Engineer L2 (AE2) is responsible for supporting their respective regional market (Americas, Europe or APAC) with technical support of aerospace products, materials and services.  The primary objective is to work directly with sales engineers and aircraft manufactures, component OEMs, and aerospace MROs to advise product and material solutions per the customer’s requirements and support the product design engineers on build to specification type designs for the purpose of generating formal solutions and subsequent proposals to be presented to the customer.  The AE will work within their Value Stream, supporting all products within, as well as collaborate with other value streams to provide ideal customer solutions. 

The AE is to ensure they are aligned with our vision of making aerospace safe & sustainable through superior products & services, and is engaged in working towards our mission of becoming bigger and better by working on our six key strategic objectives:

1.    Defend & Grow existing business by improving our service & fulfillment

2.    Value stream growth & innovation

3.    Global replication, fleet management & alignment

4.    Elevate safety & sustainability culture to aviation requirements

5.    Achieve excellence through a relentless pursuit of marginal gains in everything we do

6.    Adopt intent-based leadership principles

An Application Engineer L2 will utilize all tools within their means to recommend superior products and services.

Tasks & Responsibilities

·         Liaise with external customers and Trelleborg resources to propose solutions based on customer requirements

·         Confirm the technical feasibility of customer projects

·        Assurance of alignment to processes; Product Life Cycle Management, Customer Relationship Management, Project Management Process, Design process and others

·        Work within agreed and published Consensus of Designs

·        Support sales in seeking new customer opportunities

·         Submit customer product design requests to the GVSM and product design engineers

·        Prepare technical items for customer proposal; drawings, presentations, and inspection diagrams or sketches

·        Interpret technical data including modeling, FEA or testing results and report to customer

·        Provide technical assistance to customers and sales personnel

·        Prepare and present aerospace product, material and service training to customers

·        Support sales in the execution of strategic and tactical plans to drive revenue

·        Provide technical support for trouble shooting, analysis in an effort to resolve field performance problems

·        Maintain technical knowledge of both internal and external products, materials and services

·        Assist in commercial and marketing activities are requested by GVSM; trade shows, symposiums, forums, etc

·        Support quality and manufacturing in root cause and corrective action efforts

Education and Experience

·        Bachelors degree in engineering or equivalent

·        Minimum 3 years of application or product design experience with aerospace seals or related polymer products

·        Minimum 1 year within application or product design engineer roles        

·        Proficiency in solid modeling strongly preferred; Unigraphics NX6 or higher, CATIA (moderate level)

·        Knowledge in Finite Element Analysis tools and prediction preferred (moderate level)

·        Proficiency in Team Center or similar product life cycle management tools

·        Knowledge of aerospace elastomer and plastics product applications preferred; hydraulics & actuation, airframe & structures, engine, interiors

·        Knowledge of plastic and elastomer materials characteristics preferred

·        Knowledge of plastic and elastomer manufacturing processes preferred

·        Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required

Competencies

·        Self-motivated

·        Strong technical aptitude and learning ability

·        Proficient oral/written communication skills

·        Excellent organization skills

·        Ability to analyze, interpret and communicate technical concepts

Key Interfaces and Stakeholders

Interfacing with:

Value Stream leaders

Commercial team

Manufacturing operations

Supply Chain

Quality

External customers & suppliers

Geography to cover and Travel requirements

25 - 30% travel per year

Personality

·        High integrity

·        Creative and innovative to assist the direction of development of new products, materials, and applications

·        Self-driven and motivated