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Duke Manufacturing is looking for a Applications Engineer to join our Engineering team in Sedalia, Missouri.

Duke is a modern food service equipment manufacturer, family owned and operated for over 90 years with more than 700 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to Nourish Our World through integrated solutions that connect people, equipment, and technology to improve throughput, efficiency and quality.

Job Summary -

An Application Engineer at Duke works on new products or to improve existing ones and uses their understanding of technology, materials, and manufacturing methods to improve the design and usability of an item. Their work could involve designing, modeling, testing, and/or producing prototypes when appropriate. Working alongside engineers, manufacturing, product managers, and commercial team, they conduct research and devise a design proposal for projects. They have direct contact and interaction with key customer decision makers.

The Application Engineer is responsible for connecting current Duke Equipment standards, customer needs, and value-stream strategic objectives during the business development process. This includes the conversion of customer needs to features and ensuring the overall value-to-value exchange with the customer is understood and present. In addition they will serve as the technical resource to their assigned value-stream.

This role may be a good fit for you if you are:

• Familiar and comfortable kicking off new projects with customers
• Able to determine minimum requirements
• Can produce early conceptual designs.
• Familiar and comfortable with back-end design and production launch
• Willing in all project stages to listen to the customer and stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills or abilities that will help you succeed:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited course of study in Engineering
• Experience with Design and development
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken
• Ability to work cross functionally with a team, including engineering, manufacturing, sales, customer service, etc.
• Ability to problem solve
• Lean manufacturing experience

See Job Description for full details including job qualifications

Duke is an equal opportunity employer.