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Precisionaire, Inc. Applications Engineer - IAQ North America in Louisville, Kentucky
AAF International offers the most comprehensive clean air solutions available across the globe. Selling under the American Air Filter and the AAF International brand names, AAF International has been an industry pioneer since 1921 with manufacturing operations in 22 countries and over 6000 employees globally. Our products are the industry benchmarks for quality and performance. Our applications include commercial, industrial and residential solutions from the filters used in your home to the most critical cleanroom and power generation applications.
We are a member of the Daikin Group, the world's largest air conditioning provider with $30 billion in revenue and over 75,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 1924, Daikin has grown into a diversified industrial manufacturing company offering solutions in clean, air, air conditioning, refrigeration, chemicals, oil hydraulics, defense systems and electronics.
Our culture of continuous improvement, safety and world class operations is driven by our people-centered management philosophy. This philosophy is built around mutual selection: that while AAF seeks top talent people to join and deliver on our team, we also want each team member to receive job satisfaction, growth & development, and continued happiness in being a long-term member of the AAF family. This is fueled by our belief in treating our people, our supply partners, our customers and our environment with the trust and respect we each require, and our passion to give back to our community for our success.
Read more about our philosophy at: http://www.daikin.com/about/corporate/philosophy/index.html
AAF International is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to r ace, r eligion, color, s ex, s exual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, veteran status, uniform servicemember status, age, disability or any other legally recognized protected personal characteristics.
Position Objective:
This role serves as the Industrial Air Quality (IAQ) Applications Engineer for North America and acts as the key technical expert on products and their application, ensuring products are selected correctly to meet the technical requirements of each opportunity. Provides technical support and education to sales channel partners and end users on AAF International products, applications and trouble shooting. Maintains accurate, up to date product price sheets and quotation templates, and supports sales in timely quotation and order acceptance review ensuring bids and orders are correct technically and meet the sales price and gross margin targets set for the business.
Key Accountabilities:
1)Technical Training
Conduct wet and dry product line training, including education on current industry codes and standards related to environmental products to internal and external sales teams, sales channel partners, OEMs, and end users.
Performs training on products and applications related to knowledge/expertise, and approach to technical applications to internal.
Provides application and product support and training to North American customers, as needed.
2)Applications & Support
Provides information on product application and technical assistance as required by customers.
Conducts system/product calculations for supporting and checking technical proposals for required application.
Provides timely product quotation support and order acceptance review, supporting outside sales team and sales channel partners. Includes working with suppliers to get solutions, pricing, and lead times for non-standard offerings.
Troubleshoots problems with AAF equipment, including field site inspections as needed.
Oversees in field product startup and customer training sessions as needed.
Ensures product price sheets and quotation templates are accurate and up to date.
Supports development of technical/applications information for marketing materials and product launch campaigns.
Ensures effective use of configurator/rep portal within North America and works with IT and marketing to update/change.
Participates in regional air pollution control industry consortiums, councils, and groups as directed by EP business manager.
3)Administrative Duties
Ensures intercompany and direct quotations and sales are recorded accurately and timely in salesforce.
Maintains regional database for customer references.
Continually working with Sales, Engineering and Design teams to identify opportunities to improve upon products, adjust/change technical product specifications as gaps are identified, identify opportunities for product standardization, etc.
Travel throughout North America and global as required (approximately 20-30%)
*Additional duties as assigned.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering or related field;
- Experience in industrial air cleaning and application of airflow in equipment design desirable;
- Experience in product development and customer/design engineering preferred;
- Familiarity with particulate (primarily) and gaseous (secondarily) air pollution control technology preferred;
- Understanding and application of specific industry codes and standards with respect to affect to product design desirable;
- Experience working in technical applications (HVAC, gas turbine, etc.); air pollution control industry a plus but not required;
- Experience performing training/education of others around technical subjects desirable;
- Excellent, proven interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills;
- Effective problem - solving, quantitative and business analysis skills;
- Demonstrated ability to share skills and knowledge with others;
- Proficiency with office computer equipment and software;
- Demonstrated ability to multi - task and work in a fast - paced office setting;
- Must exhibit the following core competencies:
o communication skills
o problem analysis and solving
o judgment
o attention to detail
o creativity
o team player
o stress tolerance
o customer orientation
o presentation skills
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to r ace, color, r eligion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.