Application Engineer

Description

The Metrology Products Application Engineer is a contributing member of a team consisting of the customer, the manufacturer’s representative (an independent sales organization operating in specific geographic territories on behalf of the corporation), and the technical sales and marketing staff. 

The Metrology Products Application Engineer provides solutions-based support to the team through analysis of customer requirements, preparation of measurement reports for customer-supplied parts, equipment demonstrations, trade show participation, customer training, and after-sales technical assistance.

Requirements

What You'll Do:

Analysis of Customer Requirements: Based on customer-supplied parts, drawings, budget, and other information, determine the hardware and software that best meets the customer needs, considering accuracy, repeatability, cost, environment, productivity, data analysis, and connectivity.

Measurement Reports: Prepare detailed application studies showing measurement results on customer parts. Perform detailed gage repeatability and reproducibility studies in accordance with national quality standards. Prepare reports using industry standard statistical process control (SPC) methods.

Equipment Demonstrations: Demonstrate sophisticated coordinate measurement systems for prospective customers. Systems may be manual, semi-automatic, or fully automatic, and include optical comparators, video measuring systems, laser scanning systems, and multi-sensor measuring systems.

Trade Show Participation: Attend and participate in regional and national trade shows. Duties include installation, set-up, and dismantling of exhibits, as well as equipment demonstrations during show hours, and networking with sale representative staff.

Customer Training: Conduct training sessions for customers. Training covers use and operation of the measurement system, basic and advanced programming concepts (for automated systems), and data input, output, and analysis. Training may be at corporate facility or customer site.

After Sales Support: Support the customer via telephone and on-site visits to ensure that the customer is receiving the maximum benefit from the equipment.

Who You Are:

• Four-year college degree in an engineering or quality related discipline or a two-year degree in same and equivalent experience.

• Working knowledge of blueprint reading, and dimensioning and tolerance standards (ASME Y14.5).

• Ability to work within a fast paced, deadline driven, multi-discipline environment.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows environment and the Microsoft Office suite.

• Experience with quality reliability concepts or computer numerical control programming helpful.

• Experience with Python and C programming languages helpful.

• Be willing to travel 25-50% of the time.

What We Offer: 

Paid Time Off:

· 10 paid holidays annually

· Over 3 weeks of total PTO (vacation/sick/personal) each year, with an increase in PTO benefits after 5 and 10 years

Paid Benefits:

· Robust health benefit offerings with medical premiums as low as $3.28 per week (single employee) or $10.02 per week (family)! QVI pays over 97% of the premium on our most affordable plans for our employees. Employees pay 2.5%!

· Employer Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability benefits

· Life insurance benefits paid by QVI 

· Annual Retirement Profit Share of 5% of gross wages!

· Tuition reimbursement of up to $7,000 annually

· Annual scholarships for dependents of employees

· Referral bonuses of $1,250 when employees help us spread the word and hire great talent!

· Annual discretionary bonuses for employees not on a commission plan

Extras:

· EAP and Wellness Benefits

· On-site electric vehicle charging stations - free for employee use!

· Verizon discounts & Identity Theft Protection Insurance 

Quality Vision International Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.