Application Center Engineer China (广州周边)
- Full-time
- Department: Region
Company Description
Oetiker provides customers with the peace of mind that their mission-critical components are reliably connected. We are a global leader in high-end connecting solutions for the vehicle industry and for high-value applications in industrial segments. Our expertise in high-quality clamps, rings, straps and quick-connectors ranges from powertrain and drivetrain applications to medical applications. We offer engineering, prototyping and testing support to quickly create comprehensive solutions for overcoming clamping and connecting challenges. With 1800+ employees in more than 30 countries and over 75 years of experience, we are the trusted, global, long-term partner for the world’s leading OEMs.
Job Description
1. Connection Solutions
- Deep Needs Insight: Initiate technical discussions with customers to identify pain points (e.g., sealing failures, assembly cycle bottlenecks).
- Closed-Loop Solution Design: Lead product sizing, trial assembly validation, test reporting, and deliver customized connection solutions.
- Full-Cycle Support: Address technical inquiries (phone/email/on-site), resolving issues from analysis to implementation.
- Collaborate with the test center to develop a test plan and generate test reports for customers based on the collected data.
2. Power Tool Solutions
- Production Line Integration: Install and debug pneumatic/electronic tools & core components in high-end automated production lines.
- Application Safety Control: Conduct customer training (remote/on-site) to ensure correct tool usage and EHS compliance.
- Performance Optimization: Analyze tool-connection compatibility issues and propose reliability enhancement solutions.
3. Technical Capability Building
- Sales Team Enablement: Ensure continuous technical capability improvement of regional sales teams by:
- Leading product technical training sessions
- Developing standardized technical Q&A knowledge base
- Demonstrating solution delivery in key customer technical reviews
- Cooperate with sales team to collect Voice of Customer (VOC) to drive AM innovation
- Coordinate cross-functional resources (R&D/Product Marketing/Operations/Sales) for solution deployment
Qualifications
Technical Competencies
- Mechanical Engineering expertise (automotive fluid/sealing systems preferred)
- Proficiency in pneumatic/electric tool integration for automotive assembly lines (torque control, cycle time optimization, etc.)
- Working knowledge of connection technologies (clamps, seals) and basic FMEA
- Advanced MS Office skills for technical proposals, basic CAD (schematic drafting)
Soft Competencies
- Technical Translation: Convert complex engineering language into customer/sales-friendly value propositions
- Coaching Mindset: Systematically enhance sales team’s technical acumen and solution-selling capabilities
- High travel resilience (50% travel), adaptable to OEM plant environments
- Business-level English (technical documentation & multinational meeting facilitation)
- Degree: Bachelor’s or above in Mechanical/Automotive/Mechatronics Engineering
- Languages: Native Chinese; Fluent English (technical writing & presentation)
- Experience:
- 3+ years in automotive components (fasteners/fluid connection systems preferred)
- Proven sales enablement experience (e.g., training sales teams, developing technical Q&A handbooks)
- Hands-on tool integration or assembly line debugging projects
- Familiarity with IATF 16949 product development processes