Position: Applications Engineer - Cost Estimating and Proposals
Location:

Plymouth, MI

Description:

Be a crucial link with our customers, sales, and engineering as you provide a ‘best approach’ for technical proposals and costing supporting highly engineered, custom machinery and capital equipment projects.

With extensive knowledge of design and manufacturing process, you will:

• Identify required customer data and specs and analyze project requirements
• Develop cost estimates that include materials, labor and other resources
• Create efficient and competitive proposals that describe our custom solutions and provide accurate cost estimates
• Kick off and handoff the project to a dedicated project team
• Provide direction and technical oversight to the project team based on the technical and financial details from the cost estimate and proposal

Everything we do is custom and project-based. You will work on projects such as jet engine assembly, aerospace automation, electric transportation, custom machinery, battery-free AGVs, dynamic test solutions and more. Hybrid work schedule. Relocation assistance provided.

Requirements

• Technical degree, preferably in Mechanical Engineering (ME) or Electrical Engineering (EE)
• Mid-senior level experience, several years in industrial, manufacturing, automation or capital equipment
• Technical aptitude and ability to describe manufacturing systems and complex machines at a concept level
• CAD software experience required, preferably SolidWorks
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment, set priorities, and manage time
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills to work effectively with customers and all levels of our company
• MS Office proficiency, especially Excel and MS Project
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 10%
• Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities and ITAR requirements, sponsorship is not available for this position