Field Engineer - Electric Vehicle (EV)/Transportation (Remote - Michigan)

Company Description

ITW (NYSE: ITW) is a Fortune 200 global multi-industrial manufacturing leader with revenues totaling $14.1 billion in 2019. The company’s seven industry-leading segments leverage the unique ITW Business Model to drive solid growth with best-in-class margins and returns in markets where highly innovative, customer-focused solutions are required. ITW’s approximately 45,000 dedicated colleagues around the world thrive in the company’s decentralized and entrepreneurial culture. www.itw.com. 

Polymers & Fluids segment is composed of highly branded products serving diverse markets that require value-added, differentiated solutions. These product offerings include adhesives, sealants, coatings, lubricants, additives, and cleaners for Transportation, Electronics, automotive aftermarket, MRO, Industrial Cleaning and Lubrication, New Energy, and Marine industry customers with unique needs. ITW differentiates through leading brand positions, technology, and innovation, and strong focus on specific niche opportunities. 

ITW'S BUSINESS MODEL & CULTURE:

• We have an environment shaped by our decentralized, entrepreneurial culture that brings our exciting ideas to life.  Our people thrive in our “flexibility within the framework” approach.
• We are committed to providing you with growth and development opportunities that maximize your unique potential.
• Our culture empowers you to think and act like a business owner – we want your entrepreneurial spirit to thrive!
• Be a part of One ITW/One Team, where everyone’s contribution matters in our quest to achieve our full potential.
• We live by our Core Values:
  • We focus on the essential core of each business opportunity, fostering simplicity in how we think and execute.
  • We gain strength through trial and error and work as a team through jointly sharing risk.
  • We treat our customers and suppliers with integrity and transparency, and constantly strive to do the right thing.
  • We deeply respect diversity at every level of the company and consequently promote an open environment where innovations can emerge from our various backgrounds and experiences.
  • We trust our team members and are confident that they each work to the highest professional standards and in the company’s best interests.

Job Description

SUMMARY:

This new position – Electric Vehicle (EV) Applications Field Engineer will play an essential role providing technical field support for groundbreaking, next-generation products in the Automotive OEM and Electric Vehicle (EV) markets. In this role, you will apply your entrepreneurial spirit, technical knowledge of materials and adhesives, transportation and/or EV experience, and customer relationship skills, whether it be through developing portfolio recommendations, troubleshooting issues, design mapping, or project managing. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate with a team that is invested in your ongoing growth and development in a high-growth market!

YOU MIGHT LIKE THIS JOB IF YOU ENJOY/ARE GOOD AT:

• Simplifying technical or complex topics for others with varying levels of understanding.
• Proactively identifying problems and developing solutions for present and future goals.
• Being dynamic, outgoing, and self-aware. You know when to dial it up and when to listen – you can “read the room”.
• Embracing unpredictability. You thrive in changing situations and aren’t a rigid thinker.
• Long-range planning with customers to determine future goals and translate a vision into end-products and outcomes.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build key technical relationships at target EV accounts and prospects by demonstrating technical credibility of applications, product and market understanding.
• Provide field support to customers. Recommend solutions and perform other technical visits (training, meetings, audits, demonstrations, project/testing result reviews, troubleshooting, etc.) for customers.
• Manage customer adhesive needs and coordinate simple to complex experiments for testing to support customer development.
• Consult with customer to review results, offer insight and analytical perspective and ensure that project goals are being met.
• Translate customer needs into actionable Product Development information critical to performance of new and existing products.
• Proactively identify and eliminate hurdles to successful project completion. Conducts special projects as assigned.
• Lead or direct special application projects and technical activities and sup