Highlights
This senior, customer-facing role combines engineering expertise, project leadership, and technical sales to develop customized automation solutions and drive business growth. Experience with custom automation, capital equipment, or complex engineered systems; medical device or life sciences experience preferred.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Blaine, MN (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $130,000–$160,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
Description
Title: Application Engineer
Location: Remote
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: 130K-160K/Year
Overview:
Join a growing global leader in custom automation for the medical and life sciences industries. This senior, customer-facing role combines engineering expertise, project leadership, and technical sales to develop customized automation solutions and drive business growth.
Job Duties:
- Develop custom automation concepts based on customer requirements.
- Prepare technical proposals, project scopes, cost estimates, pricing, and risk assessments.
- Build customer relationships and identify opportunities for account growth.
- Collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Project Management to ensure project feasibility and successful execution.
- Manage scope changes, project milestones, and customer communication.
- Provide technical guidance and mentor junior applications engineers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in applications engineering, project management, or engineered solutions.
- Experience with custom automation, capital equipment, or complex engineered systems; medical device or life sciences experience preferred.
- Proficiency in SolidWorks, cost estimation, and technical proposal development.
- Strong customer-facing, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office and PandaDoc or similar tools.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.