Application Engineer
Salary: $71,000 - $80,000 per year
Location: Minerva, OH
Posted: August 14 2025
Minimum Degree:
Relocation Assistance: Available
The ideal candidate must have a good understanding (manufacturing, industrial, or mechanical) with a minimum of 2 years hands on experience and technical competency within cutting tools & metal working, process design, implementation and management experience in a manufacturing environment with an emphasis on tool life management, machine up-time, work-holding, manufacturer communications and lean applications.
Responsibilities:
- Identify and recommend tools best matched to the application and machining parameters
- Trouble shoot performance and tool life problems and make recommendations regarding corrective actions
- Analyze customer's performance based on tool use and suggest new tool designs to determine possible improvements
- Manufacturer Management
- Vendor staking and status updates
- Top efficient/inefficient tools by department
- Tool life improvements
- Quality improvements
- Support productivity improvements
- Work with manufacturers on tooling improvements and problem resolution
- Support all tooling, process and manufacturing engineers
- Attend plant production tooling meetings
Qualifications & Experience:
- Microsoft Excel: 2 years (Required)
- Tooling: 2 years (Required)
- CNC: 2 years (Required)
- Expertise in milling cutting tools, indexable tools, solid carbide tools
- Understanding of materials, surface finishes, and surface treatments
- Proficiency in Microsoft office and reading blueprint
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental
- Employee discount
- FSA
- Health
- Life
- PTO
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Vision