{"id":1595698,"url":"https://alion.io/job/armstrong-fluid-technology-applications-engineer","title":"Applications Engineer","company":{"id":668699,"name":"Armstrong Fluid Technology","domain":"armstrongfluidtechnology.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/armstrongfluidtechnology","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"BambooHR","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":37,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.595,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":53,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Manchester, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":81000,"max_usd":153000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":5578},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T17:48:15Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T00:32:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":16,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":16},"description":"Position Description\nTitle: Industrial Applications Engineer - Energy & Decarbonization\nReports To: Global Product Manager - Industrial Gas\nLocation: Manchester, UK\nAbout Armstrong Fluid Technology\nImagine working at the forefront of innovation in fluid-flow technology, with over 1400 colleagues across the globe, and contributing to a legacy of excellence that spans eight manufacturing facilities on four continents. Armstrong Fluid Technology is more than just a leader in our industry; we are a community of the brightest and most creative minds, driven by a shared mission to engineer the future and safeguard our planet.\nAs a member of our team, you’ll dive into an environment that encourages learning and boundary-pushing every day. You’ll be part of an agile and dynamic workplace where today’s solutions are built for tomorrow’s challenges.\nRole Overview\nThe Industrial Applications Engineer - Energy & Decarbonization is a globally-scoped, customer-facing technical role that can be based in India, UK, or China. The role serves Armstrong’s Industrial business across Metals, Mining, Cement, Food & Beverage, and other power and water-intensive industries.\nThis role is the founding layer of Armstrong’s Industrial Regional Sales Enablement Centre (RSEC) function. The person in this position receives strategic direction from the Global Product Manager, translates it into commercial and technical enablement for regional sales teams, and feeds ground-level customer and market intelligence back to shape how that strategy evolves.\nThe core technical mandate is built on four pillars: Heating, Cooling, Water Transfer, and High-Pressure Applications - covering descaling, high pressure washing and cleaning, and high-pressure fluid supply systems for hydraulic press operations. The primary mission is simple but demanding ensure that every industrial offer submitted is technically sound and commercially compelling, and that Armstrong’s value proposition is consistently understood and communicated by the regional sales teams that carry it to market.\nKey Accountabilities\nOffer Creation & Technical Quality\nThis is the primary accountability of the role. The Industrial Applications Engineer owns the creation and quality of every technical offer submitted in the industrial segment.\nOwn the end-to-end creation of technical offers for industrial customers across Metals, Mining, Cement, Food & Beverage, and other power and water-intensive sectors\nEnsure every offer is technically accurate, application-appropriate, and clearly communicates the Armstrong value proposition in language that resonates with industrial plant-level stakeholders\nSelect and specify the right solution architecture across Heating, Cooling, Water Transfer, and High-Pressure Applications based on customer process requirements\nBuild energy savings calculations, ROI models, and lifecycle cost cases from first principles as the commercial backbone of each offer\nConduct detailed P&ID analysis for each customer engagement - mapping every heating, cooling, water transfer, and high-pressure touchpoint to identify the full Armstrong addressable scope and ensure offers reflect the complete opportunity, not just the immediate enquiry\nEnsure offers reflect industrial environment requirements including protection classes, IP ratings, and hazardous area classifications appropriate to the application\nReview and validate offers prepared by the regional sales team before submission, maintaining a consistent technical and commercial quality standard across all industrial proposals\nCustomer Technical Engagement\nThe Industrial Applications Engineer is the technical authority in customer-facing industrial conversations, supporting and enabling the regional sales teams who own the customer relationship.\nEngage directly with plant engineers, process managers, and energy managers at customer facilities to understand process requirements, pain points, and optimization opportunities\nConduct site assessments and process audits to map Heating, Cooling, Water Transfer, and High-Pressure system architectures and identify where Armstrong solutions deliver value\nAnalyse P&IDs as a commercial tool - identifying every relevant application touchpoint across the plant to build a structured opportunity map that maximises Armstrong wallet share at each account\nDeliver technically credible presentations and solution walkthroughs that translate complex fluid-flow and thermal management concepts into clear operational and financial outcomes for the customer\nSupport customers in understanding how Armstrong solutions meet industrial environment requirements, protection class standards, and process-specific compliance needs\nIndustrial Strategy Propagation & Sales Enablement\nA core responsibility of this role is to ensure that Armstrong’s industrial strategy is understood, adopted, and consistently executed by regional sales teams - preventing the default tendency to revert to commodity product selling.\nReceive and internalise Armstrong’s industrial strategy from the Global Product Manager and translate it into actionable guidance, tools, and training for regional sales teams\nTrain regional sales teams on Armstrong’s industrial offer, application scope, value proposition, energy savings methodology, ROI narrative, and decarbonization positioning\nDevelop and maintain repeatable sales enablement tools - application guides, value proposition frameworks, calculation templates, and reference case studies - that raise the technical floor of commercial teams globally\nActively participate in regional weekly sales reviews, contributing industrial application expertise, offer quality oversight, and strategic direction to ensure industrial opportunities are being pursued with the right solution and the right narrative\nMonitor CRM pipeline in collaboration with sales to ensure industrial opportunities are properly qualified, accurately described, and progressing with the correct Armstrong solution - flagging where commodity positioning is replacing solution selling\nFeed ground-level market and customer intelligence back to the Global Product Manager to continuously refine and sharpen Armstrong’s industrial strategy based on real commercial experience\nHot water applications\nHot water applications represent a distinct and technically demanding segment within Armstrong’s industrial portfolio. The Industrial Applications Engineer is the subject matter authority for this space.\nDefine and deliver application solutions for hot water fluid supply systems utilized in NG pressure reduction, hot water generators in food and beverage, hot water feed in paper mill and presses, and other applications in the industrial market.\nDevelop application expertise in hot water process systems - including food prep, process washing, gas heating, pressure reduction for power generation, heat transfer and sanitation.\nBuild competency in hot water systems and cleaning system applications for industrial and hygiene-critical environments including Food & Beverage\nAdvise on system design, pressure management, equipment selection, and safety considerations for hot water process circuits operating in industrial protection class environments\nEnsure hot water process application requirements are accurately captured and specified in customer offers\nEnergy Optimization & Decarbonization Positioning\nEnergy savings and decarbonization are the strategic lens through which Armstrong’s industrial value proposition is delivered - not a separate workstream, but the narrative frame applied across all customer and sales engagements.\nQuantify energy savings and carbon reduction potential of Armstrong solutions against incumbent customer systems, embedding this analysis into every offer and customer conversation\nDevelop plant-level business cases covering lifecycle cost, ROI, payback period, and decarbonization impact that give customers a financially compelling reason to act\nEquip regional sales teams to lead with energy and decarbonization outcomes rather than product specifications - building the commercial habit of value-based selling in the industrial segment\nStay current on industrial energy efficiency trends, sector-specific decarbonization pressures, and relevant regulatory frameworks across target geographies and verticals\nPortfolio Intelligence & Feedback\nCapture structured feedback from customer engagements and offer outcomes - including unmet application needs, competitive gaps, and portfolio limitations encountered in the field\nCommunicate this intelligence clearly and regularly to the Global Product Manager to inform portfolio development and strategy refinement\nFlag where Armstrong’s current portfolio requires adaptation or where new application opportunities exist, with enough technical specificity to be actionable\nWhat We’re Looking For\nEducation & Experience\nDegree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline\n8-12 years of experience in heavy industrial or process environments - metals, mining, cement, food & beverage, or other power and water-intensive industries\nDemonstrated experience in application engineering, technical offer creation, or process engineering roles\nProven track record of customer-facing technical engagement at plant level\nPrior exposure to high pressure fluid systems - descaling, hydraulic press supply, or high pressure washing - is a strong advantage\nExperience working with or alongside industrial sales teams, ideally in a technical enablement or pre-sales capacity\nTechnical Skills\nStrong working knowledge of industrial Heating, Cooling, and Water Transfer systems - this is the non-negotiable technical foundation of the role\nCompetency in high pressure application engineering - descaling systems, high pressure washing and cleaning, and hydraulic press fluid supply circuits\nAbility to read, interpret, and commercially analyse P&IDs and process schematics across diverse industrial applications\nUnderstanding of chiller operations, selection principles, and integration into industrial process cooling systems\nKnowledge of cooling tower operations including parallel configurations and system-level performance\nCompetency in parallel operations - boilers, pumps, chillers, cooling towers - and the hydraulic and thermal interdependencies between them\nSolution architecture capability for process applications - able to design system-level solutions, not just select individual components\nAbility to build energy savings calculations, ROI models, and carbon reduction cases from first principles\nFamiliarity with industrial protection classes, IP ratings, and hazardous area compliance requirements\nWorking knowledge of CRM tools and pipeline management disciplines\nSoft Skills\nTechnically authoritative - credible with plant engineers and process managers on their terms, not on marketing language\nCommercially minded - able to translate technical insight into financial and strategic value for the customer and for Armstrong\nStrong communicator and trainer - capable of simplifying complex technical concepts for sales teams and non-technical stakeholders\nInfluential without authority - able to drive adoption of industrial strategy and solution selling discipline within sales teams that do not report to this role\nSelf-directed and entrepreneurial - 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