Application Engineer
Bloom Engineering improves the environmental sustainability of industrial heating applications, particularly focused on the aluminum and steel industries. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA since 1934, Bloom serves its global customers from subsidiaries in the Germany, India, and China. Bloom Engineering is a recognized leader in this field with more than 65 US patents granted, including designs specifically focused on reducing emissions.
Bloom Engineering’s knowledge and experience in furnace and heating applications provides meaningful competitive advantage to our customers by reducing CO2 and NOX, conversion to sustainable fuel sources, increasing production capacity, improving temperature uniformity, reducing fuel consumption, and enhancing operating flexibility.
Position Summary:
Application Engineers are the primary technical resources for the domestic and international field sales team and are responsible for actively driving and managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales proposal process. Working in concert with Design Engineering and the Sales team as the key technical advisor and product advocate, the Application Engineer must be able to identify and provide reliable solutions for all technical issues to assure complete customer satisfaction within the production capability of Bloom through all stages of the sales process. The Applications Engineer must be able to establish and maintain strong relationships through the sales cycle.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop an understanding of product knowledge and application as it relates to the customer’s requirements
- Prepare proposals based on input from the sales force to accomplish the customer requirements
- Become familiar with and operate Bloom Software programs: Bloom NOx, Conventional Program, Regenerative Program
- Respond to functional and technical elements of the RFP
- Listen, understand and have the ability to convey customer requirements
- Maintain all quotes, calculations, and proposals in an organized manner and ensure that all required material is copied into its assigned folder.
- Maintain a timesheet of projects being worked on for the various Bloom facilities.
- Resolve customer issues or difficulties in a manner that is consistent with the company mission, values, and financial objectives
- Maintain professional business relationships with internal and external customers
- Provide status of ongoing projects and future projects
- Travel to customer sites to provide assistance with field service, start-up, integration and training services
Desired Characteristics:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering
- Experience working with combustions systems and technology, preferred
- Analytically oriented with strong problem solving capabilities
- Ability to read architectural, mechanical and electrical blueprints and have a solid understanding of basic mechanical control systems
- Proficient in AutoCAD and experience in Autodesk Inventor is a plus
- Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job
- Comply with environmental laws, regulations and company health and safety practices
- Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, Excel (intermediate to expert level)
- Initiative to drive continuous improvement within the department and companywide
- Energetic, curious, resourceful, highly creative and self-motivated
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills with the ability to thrive in a fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively engage cross functionally
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