Applications Eng

Location
Wood Dale, IL 60191
Employment type
Full-time
Last seen
Oct 16, 2026

About the role

POSITION SUMMARY

The Applications Engineer 2 is responsible for evaluating customer requirements and then preparing quotations for nVenia’s Product Lines. Applications Engineers are responsible for the accuracy of budgeted cost and field sales support.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

- Work Independently with some oversight.

- Review and understand Request for Quotes (RFQ's), custom specifications, and sales requests from customers.

- Based on RFQ determine if nVenia has a solution.

- Read and understand customer order specifications and compare them to nVenia products to determine best fit.

- Visualize and create designs for customers by putting together initial concepts, matching equipment to customer specifications.

- Design the individual machine configuration to determine the best equipment fit to satisfy the R.F.Q. needs.

- Create conceptual layout drawings for quotations using AutoCAD.

- Detail and calculate best package configuration and production rate which will run through nVenia equipment to satisfy customer needs. Calculations are for space and flow.

- Present concepts to engineering for proposed equipment.

- Validate concepts.

- Quote a variety of product lines.

- Consult with Product Managers and Engineers on customer specific requirements.

- Consult with Production Managers regarding labor hours.

- Consult with Supply Chain regarding material costs.

- Analyze historical cost data to determine projected costs based on nVenia’s manufacturing methodology.

- Produce professional and accurate proposal documents with responsibility of providing best in class format and concept.

- Work closely with the engineering, product management, and sales to understand nVenia’s competitive advantages, new designs and include them in written proposals.

- In conjunction with Engineering, responsible for successful project kickoffs.

- Interact and develop solutions with sales to best satisfy customer requirements.

- Support Field Sales as required with travel or internal customer support.

- Run equipment on multiple product lines to understand usability and capabilities.