TAPPI Industry Career Center: NSK Corp. Seeks Applications Engineer

The Industrial Bearings Applications Engineer provides the company with a source for engineering and technical authority on selection, application, use and performance of our products. Acts in conjunction with sales and customer personnel, contacts smaller size customers to ascertain technical and service requirements. Responsible for maintenance of current business within engineering expertise is required. Generally works closely with application engineering supervisor or senior application engineer.

Promotes customer enthusiasm for NSK products by providing timely, courteous, and complete technical solutions.
Serves as a source of engineering and technical authority on the selection, application, use and performance of NSK products.
Works directly with sales and customer personnel to ascertain and meet technical information and service requirements.
Analyses customer applications and investigates performance issues to recommend solutions that maximize value for the customer.
Consults with other application engineers, team leaders and managers in the development and review of proposed technical solutions.
Visits customers together with sales to gather information and present solutions.
Communicates customer requirements to NSK design and plant personnel as part of new product quotation and production startup processes.
Provides training on the features, benefits, application, and use of NSK products to team members and customers.
Provides technical perspective to business leaders and sales in the development of strategies for growing business as assigned customers.

This job requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and less than 1 year of position-related experience; preferably 1 to 2 years of position-related experience: General Industrial Applications (Steel, Paper, Mining, Electric motor, Oil & Gas and Pump and Compressor etc.)