Application Engineering Manager (Waukesha)

Do you want to be part of a team where we work collaboratively to achieve our goals? Do you enjoy working in an innovative and growth focused environment? A company that invests in its equipment and its team members? Then Hydro-Thermal is the company for you!

Hydro-Thermal Corporation is seeking an Applications Engineering Manager to lead our Applications Engineering team and deliver accurate and timely technical solutions for our customers.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining engineering, customer interaction, team development, and process improvement. You’ll work closely with Sales, Product Development, Project Engineering, Controls, Operations, Quality, and Service while serving as a technical resource for complex applications.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop Applications Engineers while setting clear expectations for performance, technical growth, and customer service.
• Manage team priorities, workload, capacity, delegation, and cross-training to ensure commitments stay on track.
• Oversee the technical sizing, selection, configuration, and application of Hydro-Thermal products and systems.
• Establish application standards, calculation methods, product guidelines, and technical review processes.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex or high-risk applications.
• Partner with Sales and customers on technical discovery, solution development, presentations, trials, troubleshooting, and quote development.
• Identify technical, scope, margin, and execution risks and help turn customer and field feedback into product and process improvements.
• Continuously improve Applications Engineering workflows, CPQ tools, documentation, and processes.
• Provide leadership for post-shipment technical resolution, including troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and engineering changes.
• Provide overall governance for the engineering laboratory, ensuring safe, organized, and effective operations.

What We’re Looking For

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, or related Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in applications engineering, product engineering, technical sales support, process systems, or related industrial experience.
• Experience leading people, projects, or technical work; supervisory experience strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, process data analysis, and engineered industrial equipment.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into technical calculations, equipment selections, configurations, and practical solutions.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Preferred:

• Experience with direct steam injection, process heating, skid-mounted equipment, sanitary processing, controls, valves, or related industrial technologies.
• Knowledge of PLC logic, PID loop tuning, and process-system troubleshooting.
• Experience with CPQ, ERP, CRM, product configuration, or engineering change control.
• Experience with AutoCAD, P&IDs, continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, or ISO 9001 environments.

Travel

Approximately 20–30% travel is expected for customer visits, field support, training, conferences, and other business needs. Travel may occasionally include departures outside normal business hours.

Benefits

In addition to your base compensation, you are provided with a wide range of benefit programs which are designed to enhance the quality of your life, to provide protection and help when some of life's problems may occur.

• Continuing Education/Tuition Reimbursement
• Vacation and Personal Time Off and paid Holidays
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k with company match
• Company provided Life/AD&D

EEO Statement Hydro-Thermal Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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