Hitachi Energy · 1 month ago
Lead Applications Engineer
Holland, Michigan, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expJR Automation, a Hitachi Group Company, is driven to deliver customer success worldwide. The Lead Applications Engineer will manage and mentor the Applications Engineering team, ensuring that customer requirements are met and that technical solutions are developed effectively.
EnergyManufacturing
Responsibilities
Assisting in the day-to-day management of the Applications Engineering team members and tasks
Training, Mentoring, Coaching and Reviewing the Applications Engineering Team and their work
Understand thoroughly customer requirements, specifications, and existing “pain points” to aid other AEs in winning solutions
Aid in the AE Teams efforts to define/develop cost-competitive, capable, technical solutions that meet internal and external customer requirements
Ensure the AE Team is applying practical conformance to JRA Applications Engineering corporate practices, procedures, and tools
Provide Cross Functional Team Support within Projects
Ensure conformance to “As Sold” Scope of Work
Similar Job Requirements to that of a Level IV AE with the additional requirements for Task and Team
Member Management as directed by the Applications Engineering Manager
Train, mentor, coach and review the Applications Engineering Team and their work with the goal of winning work profitably
Manage team member work prioritization, capacity tracking, quote status tracking, and initiating and leading quote kick-off meetings
Provide support to the cross functional team and applications engineering team
Support AE Manager with interviews, cost & concept reviews, assignments, process compliance, deadline management and leading department meetings
Supporting Account Managers by ensuring pain points and competitive advantages are identified and leveraged into the proposals
Support Account Managers by attending customer visits for key accounts
Facilitate concept brainstorming, leading docket review meetings
Ensure all outgoing proposals have a clearly defined scope which includes specifying machine buy-off requirements, identifying customer part requirements at project level, ensuring that the customer specifications have been reviewed, and that appropriate risks, assumptions and exceptions are properly addressed within the Proposal Document
Assisting in upper management approval meetings
Maintain assignment-specific AE related fields in company CRM (Salesforce)
Perform periodic personnel Performance Reviews
Dependent upon workload and needed support, the Lead AE may, at any time, assume the role of any lesser AE as times and circumstances dictate
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in an engineering or business discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience
Ten years of industry experience leading successful projects
Proficiency in all Applications Engineering processes
Company
Hitachi Energy
Hitachi Energy is a renewable energy company that provides energy consulting services.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Hitachi Energy has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (71)
2024 (52)
2023 (53)
2022 (58)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$300M2025-03-19Post Ipo Equity· $300M
2020-03-30IPO
Leadership Team
Ron Hunt
CFO Enterprise Software Solutions
Allie Anzelone
Site HR Business Partner
Recent News
Business Standard India
2025-05-17
Company data provided by crunchbase