Job Description

Location: Ideally Hawthorne, CA or Denton, TX

Purpose:

The primary mission of the Applications Engineer (AE) is to evaluate and execute new technologies into commercial processes.

Key Responsibilities:

The AE balances technical ability and personal relationship skills to provide an interface between the customers’ engineering staff and the Web Industries’ technical staff.   The AE has succeeded when new technologies are successfully qualified and included in customer’s material specifications and/or Web’s PCDs. The AE also supports efforts to improve existing processes by participating in teams and coordinating technical details with customers and suppliers.

1. Meeting with customers’ engineering staff to understand and document product requirements, features, benefits, and performance characteristics.
2. Planning, coordinating, and documenting trials.
3. Working with customers to identify and specify appropriate process and/or method.
4. Developing manufacturing methods and coordinating the design and qualification of process lines.
5. Creating product specifications, quality plans, test methods, work; instructions, training plans, metrics and other documents and systems that ensure a smooth release to manufacturing once development is complete.
6. Managing complex projects to meet constraints of:
   • Product characteristics
   • Safety and environmental impacts
   • Lean design and manufacturing
   • Supply chain integration
   • Deadlines, speed-to-market
   • Budget for R&D, product cost, and capital equipment
   • Support of sales efforts to meet unspecified customer needs
7. Optimizing and improving processes and systems once products have been released.

Required Experience:
• B.S. Engineering
 5-10 years in process/quality/development engineering
• Experience with flexible materials processing (extruding, coating, printing, laminating)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Skill with Quality, Lean, and Six-Sigma methodologies such as FMEA, DOE, SPC, etc.

To conform to U.S. Government aerospace and defense technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.