Application Engineer - Customer Solution Center Europe (m/f/d)

What you will do

As an Application Engineer, you provide technical expertise and application engineering support to tesa's sales organisation, converting and trade partners, and industrial end-user customers across Europe and META. With a focus on the strategic markets and applications of Business Unit Industrial Trade & Converting (BU ITC), you play a key role in developing customer-specific solutions, driving new business opportunities and strengthening tesa's market position through innovative adhesive tape applications.

Your tasks include

• Provide technical consultation and application engineering support to the tesa sales organisation, Converting & Trade Partners, and industrial end-user customers across Europe and META, focusing on the strategic markets and applications of BU ITC.
• Drive customer projects in key application areas, supporting the development of new business opportunities and the successful implementation of technical solutions.
• Conduct application testing, technical evaluations and problem-solving activities in the laboratory and at customer sites to identify, develop and validate suitable adhesive tape solutions for specific customer requirements.
• Drive spec-in activities with industrial end-users and support sales teams in developing new customer opportunities and accelerating market penetration.
• Provide technical leadership and customer support for innovative solutions and strategic opportunities, including Debonding on Demand applications.
• Develop and deliver customer trainings, Tech Days, application workshops, trade fair presentations and Open House events, as well as the regular Tape Academy programme for ITC Converting & Trade Partners across Europe.
• Provide application expertise and technical input to Product Development and Product Management, translating market and customer requirements into product development initiatives and technical solutions.
• Monitor competitive solutions, application requirements and market trends to identify new business opportunities and contribute to the further development of the ITC business.
• Travel regularly to customers across Europe, working closely with Sales, Application Engineering, Product Management and Product Development to ensure effective cross-functional collaboration.

What you will need

• Professional experience in adhesive technologies, adhesive tape development, application engineering or a related technical field.
• A strong customer- and solution-oriented mindset, with the ability to translate technical challenges into practical solutions and business opportunities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with creativity and the ability to develop innovative approaches to technical challenges.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence in engaging directly with customers, sales teams and cross-functional stakeholders in an international environment.
• Willingness to travel internationally, particularly within Europe, and enthusiasm for working closely with customers.
• Very good written and spoken German and English; proficiency in an additional language is an advantage.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office.