applications engineer Basingstoke, England
Job description
Applications Support Engineer - Electronics
Are you a passionate Presales Engineer / Applications Engineer who is enthusiastic about supplying leading components to demanding and often mission-critical hardware applications?
Interested in supporting customers with their hardware challenges?
Why This Company?
As a market-leading manufacturer of custom passive electronic components, they have become well-recognised for offering solutions for some of the world's most demanding electronic designs, where stability, reliability and high-performance components are crucial.
With a multimillion-pound turnover, they have continued to dominate application areas such as military avionics, telecommunications and high-end industrial. As a newly created role, they now wish to recruit an Applications Engineer to join their UK team.
Rewards & Benefits
- £42K - £50K Basic
- 6% Pension
- 4 x Death in Service
- Travel Expenses (flights, hotels, hire car etc.)
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Hols (rising with service)
- Early finish Fridays
- WFH: 1 day per week (following training)
- Opportunity to gain training at their international manufacturing facilities
About The Role
As an Applications Support Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Operating from my clients’ southern offices.
- Handling emails and calls of a technical nature that the customer service team can’t answer.
- Providing technical input to meetings and supporting major organisations within the military, avionics, high-end industrial, medical, and telecommunications applications to name a few. (70% of hardware projects are typically power supply related)
- Ensuring prompt response to customer’s inquiries.
- Attending customer visits alongside the Design Engineering team (once per quarter) within the UK & Europe (Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland) – Expenses paid.
- Working with their R&D departments to understand their current electronic designs and challenges.
- Understanding the client’s circuitry (75% analogue / 25% digital) and specifying suitable components that meet their application challenges.
About You
To be considered for this fantastic opportunity, you MUST be based in Reading, Newbury, Basingstoke, Farnborough, Bracknell or surrounding area and hold qualifications in Electronic or Electrical Engineering. (HNC, HND, BTEC or Degree level)
You should have an understanding of component-level design, PCB design and be comfortable working in/with R&D to support with component selection.
Past experience within an Applications Support / Applications Engineering role is preferred, be it with a distributor or manufacturer.
You could be in a customer-facing role currently; offering electronic solutions to their needs/checking their electronic designs or alternatively, you could be working in-house for a technology manufacturer or even a contract manufacturer doing circuit design / PCB design.
It is essential you possess good communication skills and enjoy supporting customers.
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Interested in this role? Here’s what happens next…
Click the apply button to send us your CV. If we think you’re a great fit for this role, we’ll be in touch in the next couple of days.
Thank you for taking the time to read about this opportunity. We look forward to hearing from you,
Team Mase.
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Job Ref: 141-9400-IN
Applications Engineer
Location: Living in Reading, Newbury, Basingstoke, Farnborough, Bracknell or surrounding
Keywords: Customer Support Engineer, Technical Support Engineer, Electronics Specialist, Electronics Technicians, Applications Engineer, Field Application Engineer, FAE, Electronics, Electronic Components, Passive Components, Avionics, Military, Product Manager, Presales Support Engineer, Post-sales Support Engineer, Support Engineer, Product Marketing Engineer, Technical Specialist, Electronics Design, R&D, Component Level Design, Electronic Design, PCB Design, Circuit Design, Analog Circuit Design, Power Supplies.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £42,000.00-£50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Life insurance
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 141-9400-IN
