Design Applications Engineer

About CPC (Colder Products Company):
We are Colder Products Company, the industry leader in the design and manufacture of specialized quick disconnect couplings for the life sciences, industrial, and chemical handling markets. Used around the world in a broad range of applications, connection technologies from Colder Products Company allow flexible tubing to be quickly and safely connected and disconnected, reducing spills and increasing safety. Colder
Products Company, a Dover company, is based in Arden Hills, MN with global offices and operations in Europe and Asia.

Job Summary:
The Applications Engineer is a customer facing position with a blend of new product design engineering and business development responsibilities. Projects are often generated by unique customer requirements and necessitate an extensive amount of direct customer interaction. The role is to gain a deep understanding of customer specific needs related to performance, reliability, availability, and cost and develop solutions to enable customer success.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Accelerate growth at CPC by winning new custom product business.
• Partner directly with customers to gain and in-depth understanding of their application need and match these needs with a strong understanding of CPC capabilities to deliver the optimal solution.
• Responsible for new custom product requirements definition, conceptual product design and proposal, and management of customer expectations from initiation to product delivery.
• Develop costing and pricing for complex projects.
• Partner with Sales to present value proposition with an emphasis on technical solution to win new business.
• Present CPC’s expertise, capabilities and products to customers and sales channel partners.
• Lead cross functional teams to drive activity aligned with customer needs.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline (Mechanical or Bio-medical preferred)
• At least 3  years of experience in product related engineering
• At least 1 year of customer facing experience
• At least 2 years of experience with Creo, Pro/E, or similar CAD software

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS in engineering discipline or MBA
• Design experience in injection molded, machined, and stamped component experience
• Design experience with fluid handling systems
• Design experience in design of liquid cooling or thermal management
• Proficiency in FEA and/or CFD modeling
• Familiarity with ISO13485

Supervisory Responsibilities:
None

Travel:

May include up to 25%

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of tasks, responsibilities or duties. Colder Products Company reserves the right to amend to meet legal, business and organizational requirements as necessary.