Application Engineer
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Job description
As an EPM Application Engineer, you will provide technical support to EPM Parker LORD customers in Central and Eastern Europe, utilizing Parker LORD Rubber-to-Substrate bonding agents (Chemosil, Chemlok), Weatherstrip and Glass Coatings (Flocksil, Parflock, Sipiol, Cuvertin), and SME products (QDO, Poly DNB, latexes, Sipiol UV, etc.)., * Technical Support: Provide expert technical services to customers, leveraging extensive knowledge to differentiate from competitors.
- Product Support: Address inquiries related to Product and Application Engineering in Eastern and Central Europe.
- Project Documentation: Track project progress and complete follow-up activities.
- Sales Assistance: Support the sales team through targeted customer visits, lab tests, and training sessions.
- Trial Management: Plan and document field trials and lab experiments to meet customer needs
- Technology Presentation: Showcase and promote new technologies and solutions to clients.
- Customer Training: Conduct training seminars and demonstrations for internal and external customers, including distributor training.
- Product Development Input: Contribute to the New Product Development (NPD) process based on customer feedback.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Organizational skills?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Technical Degree: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, or Polymer science. Additional Certification and/or experience in Rubber Technologies is preferred.
- Relevant Experience: Minimum 5 years+ proven experience in adhesives, coatings, rubber and application methods within general industry and/or automotive sectors. Former experience in Central & Eastern Europe is a plus.
- Proactive and Self-Organized: Highly self-motivated with strong organizational skills.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities, with high competency in customer interactions.
- Team Player: Motivated to collaborate and contribute positively within a team environment.
- Willingness to Travel: Availability to travel approximately 35% of the time (e.g., customer visits to Central & Eastern Europe, trade shows).
- Language Proficiency: Business-level German and English is required; proficiency in additional European languages is an asset.
- MS Office Proficiency: Strong proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Benefits & conditions
- Internationality - We are proud of our international corporate culture. The personality and mindset of our employees define who we are.
- Our way of working - We work in cross-departmental and international project teams. 80% of our employees contribute to high-performance teams.
- Flexible working - Family-friendliness and flexible working hours for a good work-life balance are important to us.
- Fair, market-based compensation - We offer an attractive, market-appropriate salary, including profit-sharing.
- Company pension scheme - We want our employees to be well taken care of even in retirement, which is why we offer an employer-funded company pension plan.
- Development opportunities - We place great value on the development of each individual. Our employees are supported and further developed according to their potential.
If you don't identify with every single point, apply anyway-because nobody is perfect, and you can learn a lot with us.