# Applications Engineer

Description VPG has a long history of innovation, specifically in precision foil resistors and foil strain gauges. This served as a foundation to expand into strain gauge instrumentation, load cells, transducers, weighing modules and complete systems for process control and on-board vehicle weighing. VPG has facilities and operations in 13 countries, with more than 30 sites and over 2700 colleagues across the globe we recognise it is our talented people that are key in ensuring we successfully achieve our business aims. We have a vacancy for an Applications Engineer to play a key role in ensuring we can meet customer requirements balanced alongside producing high quality and reliable products. Here at VPG we recognise the value of having a diverse workforce and welcome all candidates, however we are unable to offer Visa sponsorship for this role at present. The role: The successful candidate will act as the technical interface between Sales, Customers, Manufacturing and R&D, supporting the specification, development, assembly, inspection, testing and deployment of On Board Weighing Solutions and related products globally. Key Responsibilities: Application engineering and customer

- **Id**: 3607530
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vpg-applications-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Shipley, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T12:14:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T04:10:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3235
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sensors & Transducers, Passive Components & Connectors, Test & Measurement Instruments

## Company

- **Id**: 2332389
- **Name**: VPG
- **Domain**: vpgsensors.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vpgsensors>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Comeet

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T12:20:47Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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