Job Description

Location: Denton, TX

Web Industries a 100% employee-owned company (ESOP), which brings a lot of advantages to the people who work here—beyond the great pay and excellent benefits. You’re not just an employee, you are an employee-owner, with a vested interest in the success of the company. Web Industries’ founder, Bob Fulton, believed that the people who create the value of a company, the employees, should share in the success of the company. We believe there is a real energy that exists when people are open, honest, and work together to meet mutual goals. We do this by living our values:

• Heart of an Owner: Taking personal responsibility and pride in our work.
• Stronger Together: The power of collaboration and teamwork.
• Find a Way: Determination and creativity to overcome challenges

As a company, we thrive on that energy and work to bring it into every product and every project that we touch. At Web, we believe the employee experience is paramount to our company’s success. Working with us, you’ll experience a myriad of cultures, locations, industries, and technologies. And you’ll be part of an employee-owned company dedicated to helping you achieve a fulfilling life and a rewarding career.

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.