What you'll do:

The primary responsibility of the Applications Engineer is to support efforts to profitably grow product sales as a member of the Engineering Services team. Primary areas of focus will be field technical assistance (both pre and post-sale) with a focus on B-Line's structural products such as cable tray, bolted framing, and seismic products. Field technical assistance and sales support responsibilities will include technical training, product demonstrations, custom project specification, project take-offs, drawing development, bid preparation, proposal submittals, documentation development, documentation management, application design modeling (structural and seismic), structural design/analysis and field problem resolution.

• Acts as support for B-Line's MEPF structural support products, particularly seismic bracing, leveraging technical and project management skills to coordinate all activities during the project life cycle
• Work with internal and external engineering resources as necessary to sign off on project plans or new product applications
• Perform project design tasks, including but not limited to; material and engineering services take-off, quotation, structural/mechanical/seismic/wind/sea transportation calculations, finite element analysis, development of scope documents, drawing layouts, submittal creation, release schedules, post order documentation creation, new product development, value engineering, etc.
• Works with customer & outside sales to develop cost-effective solutions to meet the customer and project needs.
• Reports potential/actual problems requiring attention and provides alternative solutions when identified for project completion.
• Customer and Site visits as necessary to perform installation inspections, problem resolution, etc.
• Acts as the primary representative in technical assistance and project status .
• Other duties as necessary.

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering
• Three (3+) years of experience in structural design
• Experience in MEPF system design/layout and design for non-structural component supports including seismic bracing.
• Experience in an Oil & Gas, Power, Mining, heavy industrial projects structural design
• Experience in working with EPC company
• Proficiency in RISA 3D, STAAD and other design software.
• Proficiency in Autocad and other 2D drawing software.
• Familiar with different international codes and standards (NEC, IEC, NEMA, ASME, CSA, NFPA, IBC, CBC, UL, FM, plus others)
• Experience in Mechanical & Electrical equipment support design
• Knowledge of manufacturing documentation requirements for Oil & Gas, Power, Mining, heavy industrial projects:
  • - submittal drawings
  • - production drawings
  • - test reports & certifications
• Proficiency in Solidworks / Autodesk Inventor software a plus
• Experience of design software i.e. PDMS / SP3D/ REVIT / Finite Element Analysis a plus
• Experience in new product development (NPD)/ steel design from a manufacturing company utilizing high steel content a plus
• Team-player, Fast Learner, Critical Thinker and Problem-Solver