Application Engineering Manager at United Employment Group, Inc.

Summary: The Applications Engineering Manager is responsible for concepting manufacturing processes and analyzing data to assess the time, money, materials, and labor required to manufacture complete BIW tooling systems.

Essential Functions:

• Prepare quotes for customer systems based on the supplied process released from engineering
• Prepare cycle time analysis, conceptual drawings, sequence of operations, and technical descriptions of machine stations and major system components
• Set estimated margins on all quoted jobs
• Estimates costs of new equipment or capital investment necessary for production
• Collaborate with project management to negotiate changes and costs on projects, negotiates these changes with customers, when required
• Review sketches, engineering data and other RFQ information to determine the items to be quoted
• Oversee the Concepting Processes required to efficiently manufacture components within an automated weld line to a cycle time based off a customer statement of work
• Meet with Customers to kick off proposals insuring we are working to the plant requirements
• Work with the Sales team to review process concepts and quotes with customers, making changes as required
• Work with Purchasing to get quotes for capital equipment required for Process.
• Work with other management groups to access labor hours required to complete the project being quoted
• Attend all budget reviews to assess quoted margins versus actual margins, making changes to quoting template as required.
• Recommend process improvements for estimating and implement new procedures where needed
• Willingness to assist within other areas of the company regarding component quoting and line processing
• Oversee quotes coming into the AE department, and follow them all the way to kick-off
• Provide support for department and give guidance on quote process
• Other functions as assigned by Management

Skills/Abilities:

• Experience with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
• Experience in Processing required.
• Experience with AutoCAD required.
• Experience quoting entire BIW tooling assemblies preferred.