Senior Application Engineer
Remote Opportunity
SilMan Industries is a fully integrated, self-performing industrial service provider, coast to coast.
Are You Ready? Let’s Grow.
The Senior Application Engineer is a critical member of our sales team. You will help clients and prospects understand how SilMan’s service and process add unique value to their projects.
Teamwork and collaboration across all departments will be the cornerstones of your daily life at SilMan. Your focus on communication adds value for our clients and empowers your teammates.
More Than a Job
SilMan is a thriving community of industrial professionals based on the company’s commitment to teamwork, collaboration, and empathy. This fully integrated culture has created a new kind of industrial service company, and our loyal clients continue to come back for more.
The SilMan Sales Team
A complete team of in-house professionals to support sales efforts, including:
- Engineering: Collaborate with our estimating, design, and applications team to develop winning proposals.
- Marketing: Marketing to build focused content and campaigns.
- Project Management: Project managers are closely involved in final closing to ensure efficient hand-off and execution.
- Sales: The business development team meets regularly to collaborate, strategize, discuss leads, and continually improve materials and processes to identify opportunities and improve the sales cycle.
SilMan in the Marketplace: Depth and Breadth of Performance
SilMan Industries is a leading system integration company and is a licensed general contractor in 40+ states. Our team has built a deep portfolio working with leading parcel, distribution, and fulfillment companies. As the Senior Applications Engineer, you will expand on SilMan’s success by identifying opportunities and preparing winning proposals for projects like these: Multi-site improvements for OnTrac’s West Coast network, including System Expansion in Buckeye, Ariz., and a new system in Vancouver, Wash.; National program for leading Automated Singulation Solution; Pack-out system for ThredUP; Shipping system for Levi Strauss.
Service Area and Residence
The Senior Applications Engineer is a remote opportunity reporting to our Tupelo, Mississippi office. Some travel will be required for this role, including but not limited to project site surveys, installation site visits, and potential factory training. Travel is subject to approval by the Team Leader.
What does the Senior Application Engineer do?
As the Senior Application Engineer for SilMan Industries, you will create innovative and functional material handling solutions by producing technical designs and providing engineering support.
These applications relate to conveyor systems, storage systems, and robotic solutions, as well as value-added services such as controls and electrical-mechanical installation to integrate these solutions.
Your knowledge of process and material flow, as well as business information and data, is essential for success in this role.
Furthermore, you play a key role in facilitating technical communication between the SilMan engineering team, vendors, and clients.
As a SilMan team member, you embody and execute the company's culture, policies, procedures, and vision with confidence and professionalism.
Here are a few of the responsibilities of the Senior Application Engineer
As a vital member of the Applications Engineering Team, you will effectively execute tasks such as:
- Develop functional concepts and designs for our client's applications, utilizing material handling-related equipment and controls.
- Create detailed fabrication and assembly drawings
- Create detailed bills of materials to support the Sales Group
- Work with SilMan supplier partners and subcontractors to compile project budgets and estimates
- Material Handling Automation design within the sales division
- Skilled in performing site surveys and developing material handling system design solutions for fulfillment, distribution centers, parcel centers, etc.
- Excellent communication skills with strong customer-facing skills
- Proficient in AutoCAD
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft Suite
- Skilled in BOM creation
- Sales proposal creation expertise
- Project Management skillset
What Makes You a Great Fit?
This position requires a minimum of 15 years of experience within the material handling integration industry.
- Material Handling Automation design within the sales division
- Skilled in performing site surveys and developing material handling system design solutions for fulfillment, distribution centers, parcel centers, etc.
- Excellent communication skills with strong customer-facing skills
- Proficient in AutoCAD
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft Suite
- Skilled in BOM creation
- Sales proposal creation expertise
- Project Management skillset
What We Look for in Candidates
- Highly organized
- Excellent communicator
- Strong attention to detail
- Trustworthiness
- Human Awareness
- Versatility
- Flexibility
Continuing Education and Career Enhancement
- Industry-Specific Training and Awareness
- Product And Service Training and Awareness
- Advanced Business Development and Sales Training
But most importantly
- Exercise independent initiative and drive to ensure that any requested support activities have been completed, both internally and externally
- Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
- Lead by example
Compensation
SilMan’s compensation packages are carefully tailored to each candidate’s experience, geographic location, and current market considerations. Our competitive base salary ranges are researched and benchmarked against peer companies at a similar growth stage.
The anticipated compensation package includes:
- Competitive Base Salary
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage: 100% covered medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for employees
- Additional Fully Covered Insurance Benefits: Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability, all 100% employer-paid
- Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA): SilMan contributes $1,200 per year towards you and your eligible dependents to improve your overall well-being or lifestyle in physical, financial, or emotional wellness.
- Company-sponsored 401(k): SilMan contributes 3% to a 401k plan, regardless of whether the employee contributes.
- Paid Sick Leave, Vacation Pay, and Nine Company Holidays
- Continuing Education Assistance Program available
Lastly, we believe in putting our team members in the driver’s seat of their success. SilMan invests in a training platform available to all team members who wish to advance their careers or develop personal capabilities. From technical skills to soft skills and certifications, there are no boundaries of “what’s next” for SilMan Team members.
The Basics
Role: Senior Application Engineer
Opportunity valid through: until vacancy filled
Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance and 401 (k).
Exempt Position (Salary): Base salary & Commission TBD
Office Location: Remote Opportunity. Engineering Headquarters in Tupelo, MS.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
In addition to understanding the safety and operational norms of industrial settings, the Senior Application Engineer operates in a professional office environment and routinely utilizes standard office equipment, including computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Travel is required for this role, subject to the Team Leader’s approval.
Team-Driven Productivity
Teamwork and collaboration across all departments will be the cornerstones of your daily life at SilMan. Your focus on communication adds value for our clients and empowers your teammates. Learn more about SilMan’s unique approach: meet SilMan in 60 seconds.
For more information, or to submit your resume
Say “hello” to Michele Douglas. She loves to help others find their way. She is also passionate about building Team SilMan to be the Industrial Services provider of the Future.
But most of all, she would love to speak with you about this opportunity or other ways that SilMan might be a good fit.
Feel free to contact Michele by telephone at 662.321.9658, email, or LinkedIn.
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