Product Application Engineer

Are you passionate about teaching and supporting customers? Do you want to leverage your engineering skills to build and grow relationships, both internally and externally? Are you eager to be part of a supportive work environment within a well-respected, growth-focused, and sustainability-embracing business? If so, you share our vision.

Danfoss is seeking a Product Application Engineer to join our team. With a "run the business as your own" attitude, our Product Application Engineering (PAE) team plays a crucial role as a link between Sales, the business, the customer, and suppliers. In this role, you will support customers during customer calls and visits, build relationships, manage small projects, assist with prototyping, handle customer quotes, connect with manufacturing plants, collaborate with Danfoss engineering teams, and utilize your engineering skills and mindset. This position will be based out of our Maumee, Ohio technical center, reporting to the Commercial Vehicle Product Application Engineering Manager. Key to this role is driving profitable growth for Danfoss Fluid Conveyance commercial vehicle customers. This flexible, competitively compensated role offers exposure to all areas of the business for personal and professional growth.

• Foster customer and Danfoss Sales relationships.
• Learn, promote, and improve product manufacturing process.
• Communicate customer feedback.
• Translate customer designs into internal designs using Danfoss standards.
• Manage small projects and support engineering design and development tasks.
• Support internal fixture design and manufacturing.
• Support quoting activities (prototype and production) and new part activations.
  
  
  
  • BOM establishment
  • Component cost calculations
  
  
  
  
• Working in SAP, Salesforce and Teamcenter daily.
• Help with customer onboarding for new product wins.
• Assist in process improvement.
• Exercise individual autonomy in building this unique and new position.
• Up to 25% travel for day trips or overnight visits.

1. Required (basic) qualifications - Pursuing or completed a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or similar field.
2. Job Criteria
   
   
   
   1. Willingness to work in diverse and technical global teams.
   2. Strong engineering mindset.
   3. Desire to learn, teach and train others.
   4. Strategic thinker with a focus on growth and market share.
   5. Proficient with CAD, NX preferred.
   6. Effective collaborator with effective communication skills.
   7. Diligence.
   8. Experience with or aptitude to understand basic financial analysis.
   9. Highly proficient in Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
   
   
   
   

We are excited to offer you the following benefits with your employment:

• Bonus system
• Paid vacation
• Personal insurance
• Opportunity to join Employee Resource Groups
• State of the art virtual work environment
• Employee Referral Program

This list does not promise or guarantee any particular benefit or specific action. They may depend on country or contract specifics and are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

At Danfoss, we are engineering solutions that allow the world to use resources in smarter ways - driving the sustainable transformation of tomorrow. No transformation has ever been started without a group of passionate, dedicated and empowered people. We believe that innovation and great results are driven by the right mix of people with diverse backgrounds, personalities, skills, and perspectives, reflecting the world in which we do business. To make sure the mix of people works, we strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are treated equally, respected, and valued for who they are. It is a strong priority within Danfoss to improve the health, working environment and safety of our employees.

Following our founder's mindset "action speaks louder than words", we set ourselves ambitious targets to protect the environment by embarking on a plan to become CO2 neutral latest by 2030.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.