Field Application Engineer

Innovation, Efficiency and Ambition: This is what VAT has stood for over 50 years. With this passion, VAT has grown to become the leading international developer, manufacturer, and supplier of high-performance high-end vacuum valves and vacuum sealing technology, employing over 2000 people worldwide. The headquarters are located in Haag (Switzerland), with production centers in Switzerland, Malaysia, Romania, and Taiwan.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for specification for new product developments and existing product improvements.
• Responsible for execution and support of experiments e.g. test valves at customer site.
• Provide accurate and precise answers to application-related technical customer requests.
• Reliable technical contributor in projects for both headquarters and customer. Voice of headquarters project team in customer projects. Voice of customer in product development projects.
• Takes technical decisions together with customer based on general BU guidelines. Detailed consultation with HQ not in every case required.
• Identify OEM technical roadmaps and communicate to Product Managers.
• Support Product Managers in defining actual and future product requirements to protect and increase the share of wallet for VAT Group worldwide.
• Research on a certain market. Be clear about its roadmap or generation upgrading. Identify our products’ opportunities and challenges from it.
• Frequently communicate with HQ Engineering Team for alignment on the latest product roadmap.
• Support complex technical escalations at customers in cooperation with the responsible Product Manager.
• Contribute to the VAT application engineering network.
• Carefully monitor the competitor landscape, run competition analysis, and work out VAT’s competitive advantage.

VAT is an equal opportunity employer. We see ourselves as a responsible and far-sighted employer that offers not only jobs but also career and personal development opportunities through various training programs. We recognize the value of employee diversity and provide equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants that contribute to innovation, improve customer orientation, and enhance employee satisfaction. One step in this direction is to ensure that people are recognized and fairly compensated for their contributions to the company. In 2021, VAT received the Fair-ON-Pay+ certificate as an acknowledgment of our commitment to ensuring equal pay for equal work between men and women. #J-18808-Ljbffr