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You might currently be an Applications Engineer, Composite Engineer, Technical Service Engineer, Sales Engineer, Technical Account Manager, or Technical Sales professional working with carbon fiber, fiberglass, thermoset composites, prepregs, or related structural composite technologies.\nWhat matters is that you understand the materials, can work credibly with customers and engineers, and are interested in taking greater ownership of customer applications and commercial opportunities.\nYou'll work with OEMs, composite fabricators, processors, and distributors to understand technical requirements, identify applications, support material evaluation and qualification, and develop opportunities into long-term commercial business.\nThe company's advanced-composites portfolio includes thermoset prepregs and UD prepregs utilizing carbon, glass, aramid, basalt, and other reinforcement systems, along with laminates, reinforced materials, composite components, and specialized engineered-material solutions.\nWhat You'll Do\nWork directly with customers to understand material, processing, performance, and application requirements.\n\nIdentify and develop new customer and application opportunities for prepreg and advanced composite materials across North America.\n\nSupport material selection, sampling, testing, trials, qualification, specification, and commercialization.\n\nBuild relationships with OEMs, composite fabricators, processors, distributors, engineers, and technical decision-makers.\n\nTranslate customer challenges into technical and commercial opportunities in collaboration with engineering, product management, and manufacturing teams.\n\nDevelop new accounts and contribute to a qualified pipeline of customer and application opportunities.\n\nSupport technical presentations, quotations, proposals, pricing discussions, and commercial negotiations.\n\nCoordinate customer projects with colleagues across North America and Europe.\n\nRepresent the company at customer meetings, industry events, and trade shows.\n\nWhat You Bring\nProfessional experience with advanced composites, prepregs, carbon fiber, fiberglass, thermoset materials, or closely related structural composite technologies.\n\nPractical understanding of composite materials and manufacturing processes such as layup, curing, molding, material testing, qualification, or composite fabrication.\n\nExperience working directly with customers, suppliers, OEMs, fabricators, or other external technical stakeholders.\n\nAbility to understand a customer's technical challenge and communicate effectively with both engineers and commercial decision-makers.\n\nInterest in developing applications, customers, and new business in addition to providing technical support.\n\nA proactive, self-directed working style and the ability to operate effectively within an international organization.\n\nWillingness to travel approximately 50-70% throughout North America.\n\nExperience with thermoset prepreg materials, resin systems, UD or fabric-reinforced prepregs, CFRP/GFRP, or prepreg processing is particularly valuable. 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