Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
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The application engineer will provide materion customers with support relating to product development, product qualification, competitive product solutions, failure analysis and processing/presentation of corrective actionsThe application engineer will offer our customers a greater level of end use understanding, allowing the voice of the customer to be heard more by materionThe application engineer will create more value for our customers by acting as a development partner and a technical resource.
Essential duties and responsibilities
Works directly with customers and/or collaborates with product specialists/managers and other development teams / market leaders, to understand the needs of the customer and develop product/process solutions and critical to quality (ctq) attributes.
Develops and manages relationships with strategic contacts among key customers and industry contactsTravel for face to face customer support / understanding required.
Participates in market and product/service strategy and roadmap creation as well as support strategy execution.
Provides engineering support to the customer to identify and resolve design issues or opportunities.
Represents the company at customer sites and trade shows, where applicable.
Communicates the customer’s requirements to the company for engineering and production purposes.
Interfaces with customers and/or materion internal quality teams on all technical quality issues and monitors corrections/improvements through to completion.
Support account managers to identify, execute and improve key account strategies.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in materials engineering or related field requiredMs or phd preferred
Strong level of experience dealing with customer research and production teams required
In depth knowledge of materials manufacturing processes required
Direct technical experience working in the sputter target industry preferred
Previous experience in the semiconductor or data storage device industry preferred
Strong materials/metallurgy background
Strong communication skills both with customers and internally
Able to work cross functionally across technology, operations, quality
Must be willing to travel up to 50%
Detail oriented, & self-motivated
Ability to communicate effectively with all management levels
Ability to manage multiple tasks and to meet deadlines
Ability to lead project groups that consist of team members with varying skills and knowledge located around the world
Ability to work collaboratively with people of diverse backgrounds both locally and globally
