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Sales Application Engineer

Freudenberg
Plymouth, USA
Full-time
Mid · 5+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago

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Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the primary technical interface for assigned automotive OEM and Tier 1 customer accounts, building strong relationships with engineering, quality, purchasing, and manufacturing stakeholders.
  • Drive new business growth by identifying application opportunities, supporting technical sales discussions, and promoting sealing solutions, engineered elastomers, and high-performance plastic technologies.
  • Lead customer programs from quotation through launch by coordinating technical requirements, project timing, open issues, deliverables, and cross-functional activities with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and program management teams.
  • Translate customer requirements into actionable engineering specifications and ensure alignment between customer expectations and internal product development teams.
  • Support product design, validation, testing, warranty investigations, and root cause analysis activities while recommending technical solutions that improve performance, quality, and customer satisfaction.
  • Present technical recommendations, program updates, test results, and value engineering initiatives to customers while supporting commercial strategies that increase market share and profitability.
  • Act as the voice of the customer within the organization by proactively resolving technical issues, removing communication barriers, and ensuring timely responses to engineering, quality, and program-related requests.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
  • Minimum 5 years of customer-facing application engineering, product engineering, sales engineering, or program engineering experience within the automotive industry.
  • Proven experience supporting automotive OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers in driveline, eAxle, transmission, axle, PTU, powertrain, or related vehicle systems.
  • Strong understanding of automotive development processes including APQP, DVP&R, product validation, launch support, warranty analysis, and problem-solving methodologies.
  • Experience with engineered elastomers, sealing systems, polymers, plastics, or other engineered automotive components preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts, lead customer presentations, influence decisions, and support technical sales activities.
  • Strong project management, analytical, and relationship-building skills with the ability to manage multiple customer programs and travel throughout North America as required.
  • The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
  • Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with engineered elastomers, sealing systems, polymers, plastics, or other engineered automotive components preferred.

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