At a Glance
- Tasks: Capture customer requirements and deliver tailored engineering solutions in a collaborative environment.
- Company: Respected manufacturing business in North Yorkshire with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, and great benefits package.
- Other info: Full-time role with excellent career growth opportunities and supportive culture.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact on engineering projects.
- Qualifications: STEM degree preferred; experience in engineering roles and CAD skills are a plus.
The predicted salary is between 43000 - 48000 £ per year.
Our client is an established and highly respected manufacturing business based in North Yorkshire. Due to continued growth, they are currently seeking an Electrical Applications Engineer to join their technical department.
The Electrical Applications Engineer will play a critical role in providing technical and application engineering expertise, acting as the key technical link between Sales, Operations, and Engineering, to customise products and deliver solutions that meet agreed objectives, performance requirements, and customer expectations.
Purpose
The Electrical Applications Engineer will support sales in accurately and effectively capturing a customer's requirements from a technical nature. This will help create a technical concept, ensuring customer requirements are clearly understood, technically assessed, and translated into safe, compliant, and deliverable engineering solutions. The successful candidate will provide technical and application engineering support throughout the entire project lifecycle, assist in translating a customer's technical concept into a tangible solution, support customers with embedding products, and provide technical oversight and sign-off of installations. They will work collaboratively across multiple departments, helping to ensure solutions are delivered efficiently, meet customer expectations, and comply with all relevant technical and regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with Sales and customers to capture and interpret a customer's technical requirements.
- Evaluate application suitability, identify technical risks, compliance considerations, and design constraints.
- Act as a technical escalation point for complex application issues, supporting root cause analysis, investigations, and corrective actions where required.
- Maintain accurate project records and ensure all engineering activities comply with relevant quality, safety, and industry standards.
- Produce and maintain engineering documentation, including technical specifications, BOMs, CAD models, technical drawings, and supporting project documentation.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, records, and activity tracking.
- Support the development of technical concepts to enable accurate costing, planning, and solution feasibility.
- Contribute to product development and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Attend site visits to provide technical oversight of installation, support commissioning, and conduct investigations where required.
Candidate
- STEM related Degree is preferred.
- Experience gained within a relevant engineering role i.e. Production Engineer, Application Engineer, Design Engineer, Product Development Engineer or similar.
- Strong understanding of electrical engineering principles, with exposure to mechanical systems would be ideal.
- Proven ability to interpret technical requirements and translate them into practical, deliverable engineering solutions.
- CAD experience, ideally SolidWorks, skilled in designing mechanical or electrical solutions would be advantageous.
- Be an effective communicator who is comfortable liaising with customers to better understand their pain points and identify best fit solution.
- With strong Microsoft skills, able to create detailed and presentable customer-facing technical documentation.
The Electrical Applications Engineer position is offering £43,000 - £48,000 basic salary plus great benefits! This is a full-time, permanent position, working Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm. Based at our client's North Yorkshire office with flexibility to work home based 1-2 days per week when possible.
All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application for the position of Electrical Applications Engineer.
Electrical Applications Engineer employer: Technical Prospects Ltd
Join a highly respected manufacturing business in North Yorkshire as an Electrical Applications Engineer, where you will be part of a collaborative and innovative work culture that values technical expertise and customer satisfaction. With a competitive salary and great benefits, including flexible working options, this role offers significant opportunities for professional growth and development within a supportive environment. Be a key player in delivering engineering solutions that make a real impact, while enjoying the stability and resources of an established company.
