Applications Engineer
Hopkinton , MA 01746 US
Job Description
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Title: Applications Engineer
Hiring Organization: Connexion Systems & Engineering
Compensation, Benefits, and Employment Type
- Duration: Perm
- Pay rate: $82-100k
- Job Location: Hopkinton, MA
- Job# 14466
Applications Engineer
Purpose:
The primary mission of the Applications Engineer (AE) is to evaluate and execute new technologies into commercial processes.
Key Responsibilities
- The AE balance’s technical ability and personal relationship skills to provide an interface between the customers’ engineering staff and the technical staff.
- The AE has succeeded when new technologies are successfully qualified and included in the customer’s material specifications and/or 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 processes and/or methods.
- 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.
- Managing complex projects to meet constraints of:
- Product characteristics
- Safety and environmental impacts
- Lean design and manufacturing
- Supply chain integration
- Deadlines, speed-to-market
- Budget for R&D, product cost, and capital equipment
- Support of sales efforts to meet unspecified customer needs
- Optimizing and improving processes and systems once products have been released.
Required Experience:
- B.S. Engineering
- 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.
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Meet Your Recruiter

Emily Donahue
Regional Recruiting Manager
- Directs the recruitment efforts for both the Quincy, MA and Providence, RI branches.
- Manages a distributed team of recruiting leads, individual contributor recruiters and account managers.
- Responsible for leading the fulfillment and execution of sourcing, recruiting, sales and business development practices across the region.