Reporting to the Applications Engineering Manager, the Applications Engineer is responsible for interfacing with sales and customers to understand their technical needs and apply Aria Filtra's solutions for membrane filtration capital equipment, temporary water treatment, and engineered upgrade solutions. In addition, the Applications Engineer drives profitable business growth by timely responses to customer technical inquiries and facilitating the handover of an opportunity to a project.

This position is part of the Sales organization and fully remote.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Technical Proposal Development (60%)
  • Develop, own, and lead Trojan Technologies technical bid strategy for moderate to complex projects assigned. Develop proposals to meet customer design requirements for new systems, mobile rentals, and long term customer support opportunities to meet customer timelines.
  • Review and interpret customer technical specifications, drawings, water analysis data, and other technical information. Develop complete exceptions and clarifications list.
  • Perform calculations to size the equipment and achieve the required overall process design at a competitive cost position. Ensure process design, system design, material and labor cost budget and project delivery schedule in offering are aligned with execution and product capabilities.
  • Identify technical risks for project offerings, evaluate the impact of the risk, and formulate strategies for risk mitigation.
  • Facilitate the transfer of an opportunity to a project. Perform technical review of incoming orders to assure technical requirements, scope, schedule and warranty are consistent with that proposed by Trojan Technologies.

• Customer/Market Influence (20%)
  • Work with customers at the budgetary or firm phase to understand their technical needs and apply Aria Filtra technical value proposition in a timely fashion.
  • Use technical product expertise to instill confidence in Aria Filtra's offering, influencing customers to write specifications that demand the intrinsic value of Aria Filtra's products and services. Interface with customers, engineers, contractors, and internal team members to understand VOC and generate ideas for growth opportunities.
  • Participate in terms and conditions negotiations as required to provide technical guidance.

• Tools/Process Improvement (20%)
  • Lead or assist with the development and maintenance of costing tools to enable Applications Engineers to efficiently and accurately cost projects.
  • Lead or assist with the development and maintenance of budgetary tools to enable the Sales team to efficiently quote projects. Assist with the development of process and equipment sizing tools as required.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• BS degree in engineering (Civil, Chemical or related fields)
• 5+ years' experience in advanced water treatment process design
• Experience performing process and equipment design calculations on low pressure membrane filtration and reverse osmosis equipment.
• Experience interfacing with external water treatment customers in the Municipal or Industrial markets to understand technical needs.
• Experience reading, interpreting, and influencing technical specifications and drawings for water treatment applications.
• Requires 20% travel as a technical expert to build or increase awareness of Aria Filtra's technical capability and brand through customer visits, trade shows, presenting technical papers, etc. Must have no legal restrictions to travel between US and Canada.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with related technologies for pre-and post-membrane treatment such as dissolved air flotation, granular media filtration, clarifiers, lime softening, coagulation, de-gasifier, ion exchange, solids handling, or UV.

At Trojan Technologies we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Trojan Technologies can provide.

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