Application Engineer at SMC Automation in Växjö

SMC Corporation was founded in 1959 in Tokyo and is a global organization that develops products and produces its own solutions in industrial automation. SMC is the world's largest manufacturer of pneumatic components, air pressure technology, and automation solutions.

We are looking for an Application Engineer for SMC Sweden's office in Växjö. With us, you will have a great deal of responsibility and a good balance between work and private life.

Maxkompetens is seeking an Application Engineer for a direct recruitment to SMC Automation in Växjö!

Your Responsibilities

As an Application Engineer at SMC, your primary responsibility will be to identify and develop tailored technical solutions that meet customer needs, based on SMC's wide product range. In this role, you will contribute your technical expertise by supporting the company's sales team with complex technical questions. In close collaboration with both colleagues and customers, you will help find the most suitable solution for each unique customer need.

In the role of Application Engineer, you will:

• Develop tailored technical solutions based on customer needs.
• Provide technical support to SMC's salespeople and customers.
• Conduct joint visits with salespeople where you will contribute your technical expertise.
• Offer excellent customer service and actively work to maintain long-term partnership relationships with your customers.
• Train internal staff on new technical products prior to launches.

As an employee at SMC, you will work in a team of 6 people and belong to the Växjö office. Travel to our customers is included in the position, mostly in and around Småland. In the role of Application Engineer, you will report to the Regional Sales Manager.

Your Profile

We are looking for someone with a few years of work experience in a similar role, such as an automation engineer, and who has developed a good understanding of automation in a manufacturing/production environment. Furthermore, you have good knowledge of AC servo solutions/electrical drives and IO communication as well as fieldbus communication and are eager to share this knowledge with your surroundings. To thrive in this role, we see that you are proactive, meticulous, and engaged in your work approach. You enjoy and gain energy from driving projects where you can identify and solve technical problems and ensure that projects are completed with high quality.

As a person, you are initiative-taking, responsible, and confident in discussing technical solutions with various internal and external contacts. Furthermore, you are service-oriented and accommodating in your approach and see it as a given to help both colleagues and customers with their issues.

To be considered for the position, you should have:

• Work experience in roles such as application/automation engineer.
• Good knowledge of IO communication and understanding of PLC.
• Post-secondary education with a technical focus, such as Mechanical Engineer.
• Good computer and system skills.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.
• Driver's license B.

If you have work experience from similar roles in Automation, electronics, manufacturing industry, or other equivalent industries, we see this as an advantage for the position.

Additional Information

• Location: Växjö
• Start: By agreement
• Duration: Permanent
• Working hours: Monday-Friday, daytime

SMC has chosen to collaborate with Maxkompetens in this direct recruitment. If you have questions regarding the position, please feel free to contact the responsible recruiter at Maxkompetens, Lisa Andersson at phone 073-436 81 02. Selection and interviews will take place continuously in this process, so please apply at www.maxkompetens.se today!

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About Maxkompetens

Maxkompetens is one of Sweden's leading recruitment and staffing companies since 2003 and has offices in five locations distributed in Kristianstad, Växjö, Halmstad, Borås, and Stockholm. Each year, we fill over 1200 jobs and every day we have about 280 consultants out on assignments. Our areas of expertise are HR & Payroll, Finance & Accounting, Customer Service & Administration, Marketing & Sales, IT & Technology, Purchasing & Logistics, Industry.

Every person has a fantastic potential. It is important to harness everyone's competence and offer them the opportunity to achieve their dreams. Through carefulness, well-functioning recruitment processes, and high competence, we help people and companies meet and succeed together. A better world, simply put! We are an authorized staffing company with collective agreements, insurance, wellness programs, and occupational pensions.

About the Customer

SMC develops products and solutions in industrial automation and is the world's largest manufacturer of pneumatic components and air pressure technology. We have 12,000 core products and over 700,000 variants of cylinders, sensors, switches, couplings, hoses, ionizers, circulation coolers, valves, electric linear units, and products for high vacuum, vacuum, clean rooms, and Atex. SMC offers solutions for air preparation, temperature control, instrumentation, static electricity, machine safety, and energy optimization in automation processes. SMC has 24,000 employees worldwide. SMC has been in Sweden since 1986, with its headquarters in Stockholm and regional offices in Gothenburg, Lund, and Växjö. SMC has experience in many industries such as automotive, food, life sciences, mining, paper, metal, wood, pharmaceuticals, and battery manufacturing. Together with the rest of the Nordic countries and the Baltics, SMC has about 240 employees. Read more about SMC Automation on their website: https://www.smc.eu/sv-se (https://www.smc.eu/sv-se)