Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ABB provides services that improve the availability, reliability, predictability, and sustainability of electrical products and installations. The Application Engineering Manager will lead the U.S. Application Engineering organization, develop a high-performing team, support customer-focused technical solutions, and ensure high-quality Statements of Work and Job Cost Estimates. The role also drives continuous improvement in engineering processes, proposal quality, technical capability, and operational effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing Application Engineering team by setting clear performance expectations, coaching employees, closing technical skill gaps, and implementing targeted development plans
- Provide technical leadership and customer solution support across the ELSE portfolio, including strategic customer engagements, site assessments, solution development, and effective resource prioritization to ensure successful execution
- Drive proposal excellence and operational effectiveness by ensuring high-quality SOWs and JCEs, improving inquiry-to-order (ITO) processes, and partnering with Commercial Operations to enhance proposal quality and cycle times
- Standardize and continuously improve engineering processes and capabilities through KPI management, solution and estimating libraries, digital tools and automation, process improvements, and the development of comprehensive technical training programs
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree required and 12+ years relevant work experience
- Ability and willingness to travel 25% of the time within US
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in application engineering or field engineering in power delivery products and systems including a minimum of 5 years of experience working with customers in oil & gas, metals, mining, paper, power generation, data center, commercial buildings or similar business segments
- Experience with proposal development, statement of work creation, job costing, and commercial operations processes
- Background in field service, power systems engineering, or industrial electrical services
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S
- Candidates with Electrical Engineering degree will be preferred
- Experience leading geographically dispersed technical teams strongly preferred
Benefits
- Eligibility for a short-term incentive plan/annual bonus
- Choice between two medical plan options: a PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
- Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
- Vision benefit
- Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
- Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
- Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
- Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
- Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
- Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
- Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
- Employee discount program
- 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
- ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
- Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
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