Job Description
Location: Cambridge, ON (Hybrid)Salary: $85,000.00 - $115,000.00
What We’ve Won
In 2021, Eclipse Automation was named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the seventh consecutive year by Deloitte – and that makes us a Platinum member. It’s a prestigious designation that we’re thrilled to uphold. We’re also a six-year recipient of the Growth 500 Award, celebrating Canada’s most dynamic and successful businesses.
What’s In It for YOU?
The Eclipse team is 900+ strong, working out of 17 locations across 5 countries and 3 continents. Our people are our greatest assets and our biggest competitive advantage. That’s why we ensure that they’re taken care of with comprehensive benefit packages that support the growth and well-being along with many additional perks such as:
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- On-site Employee Gym, Free Snacks, Employee Events
- RRSP/DPSP Program eligible on day one
- Three weeks of vacation to start
- Career Development & International Exchange
Come and see what your future has in store. Your next exhilarating career move awaits!
About Our Engineering Teams
Our Engineering Teams help bring our ideas to life. Innovators and reinventors, their know-how is unparalleled, and their endless drive keeps them striving for excellence. They push possibilities and turn passion into world-class products to help our customers reach their ultimate potential. They’re mechanical engineers, controls software designers, applications engineers, and much more. Whether they’re building, designing, programming, or testing, our engineers breathe life into the technology of tomorrow. That’s why we need deep thinkers, problem-solvers, innovators, and industry-leaders like you – the ones that can help push us forward, and never stop striving for excellence.
Role Overview
The Applications Engineer is a key member of the sales team, responsible for developing proposals and supporting the Sales Account Managers. Key directives include maintaining and servicing specific customer accounts and responding to requests for quotations in a timely and efficient manner, while delivering the Eclipse Vision and the Eclipse Entrepreneurial Culture.
The Applications Engineer job responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
- Participate in customer RFQ review meetings, either on-site at the customer or in-house
- Prepare cell layout drawings for the various RFQ's
- Liaise between mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and assembly manufacturing groups for technical assistance in developing concepts and processes and provide assistance in estimating labor and material costs to meet customer requirements
- Liaise with suppliers to obtain estimates of major material and equipment costs required for the preparation of budgets and proposals
- Prepare equipment layouts.
- Participate in the elaboration of the list and schedule of technical deliverables for the
- complete project as well as the corresponding list of interfaces
- Write technical specifications
- Technical follow-up during engineering, procurement & construction
- Identify technical risks and their impact on the project & mitigate their effects
- Prepares specifications and estimates costs
- Provide proactive customer design support for vertically integrated components and complex electro-mechanical assemblies
- Work with internal and external design and technology functions to create unique specifications and applications
- Work to specific project budgets and timelines provided by Applications Manager
- Prepare draft budget and quotation proposals for review with the Applications Supervisor, the Sales Manager and Key Account Managers
- Attend escalation and red flags as directed by Applications Manager
- Recognize problems, initiate action, assist in problem solving and evaluate results
- Assist with conflict resolution at early stages
- Promote positive relations with internal customers, partners, customers, vendors, and distributors
- Liaise between all departments as required to ensure on time delivery proposals, and internal procedures are executed in a timely manner
- Notify the Applications Manager as early as possible if milestones cannot be met
- Attend appropriate meetings when required (Opportunity Review & Short-Term Bookings)
- Ensure that Company ISO Standards are followed
- Promote environmentally and ergonomically safe conceptual product and/or processes to ensure safety of Eclipse personnel and the customer’s employees
- Maintain company confidentiality and ensure employees know accurate information as required
- Maintain good corporate citizen role in support of the Eclipse corporate Vision
- Foster the development of a culture reflective of the core values of the business
- Represent the company at various community and/or business meetings to promote the company
- Complete other duties and projects as assigned
- Expectation of travel up to 30% of time could be anticipated, however may be exceeded in exceptional circumstances to meet project needs
- 5+ Years of applications engineering experience in the Automation industry
- University Degree or College Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or Mechatronics
- Must have excellent experience with AutoCAD and Solid Works and be familiar with MS Office
- Experience with hydraulics, pneumatics and electrical controls and integration of equipment
- Experience and working knowledge of most CSA, ANSI and CE standards
- Work requires professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to motivate teams to produce quality proposals within tight timeframes, with changing priorities
- Conflict resolution skills are and asset
- Must be self-motivated and lead by example with a positive attitude and outlook in the company
Here at Eclipse Automation, creation and innovation is at our core, and our culture reflects that. Fast paced and continuously fostering growth, we encourage the entrepreneurial spirit that our Teams embody, and leverage each of their strengths to do better for our people, our clients, and our communities.
Our teams are made up of are innovators, thinkers, and doers, with the know-how and expertise to exceed expectations, and the relentless spirit to create and reinvent. Our people are what enable us to live up to our name – to eclipse all others, inspiring and creating outcomes that change the world.
Eclipse is an AODA compliant organization, and accommodations are available upon request.
We support an environment where teams work together and where people can learn, grow, and thrive.
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