Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kennametal is an industrial technology company providing materials science, tooling, and wear-resistant solutions to customers across multiple industries. The Senior Application Engineer supports technical tooling and product application solutions, manages customer accounts, coordinates cross-functional projects, and mentors less experienced team members within the sales territory.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, manufacturing, sales, etc) for project management
- Understand customers' business, technology, and product requirements and appropriately match Kennametal tooling solutions, products and services to meet customer needs
- Exceed customer expectations relative to Kennametal service levels and technical know-how and value-added services
- Perform sales forecasting, account planning and other administrative tasks that will profitably grow the business
- Understand and utilize company resources
- Show continuous improvements in technical, product and selling skills Maintain high impact customer relationships with current accounts to expand market share
Skills
- Bachelors degree in mechanical or manufacturing engineering or equivalent working experience in industry
- 5 to 7 plus years of successful field or manufacturing experience in the metal cutting industry
- Experience working in an extensive technical manufacturing environment
- Proficient in identifying and assessing customer needs
- Competent in understanding and communicating all products and technical information
- Able to understand and communicate complex contract conditions
- Able to work independently with little supervision
- Well developed interpersonal skills enabling teamwork and clear communication
- Valid driver's license
- Experience working with OEM machine tool builders preferred
Benefits
- Remote within Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, or Indiana
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