Application Engineer

Role: Application Engineer
Location: Catania, Sicily
Job type : Full-time

• Represent our client to your clients both on-site and on frequent remote calls.
• Effectively interface with a broad range of client stakeholders including operators, process engineers, industrial engineers, Fab managers, IT, and Executives.
• Manage the entire project life cycle by developing and maintaining the schedule to meet project goals, defining clear deliverables, determining what expertise is required, and producing estimates of program/project requirements based on changing client needs.
• Work closely with other members of our client's applications engineering team, including frequent communication with the Program Manager and Commercial Manager for your sites.
• Work closely with our client's software development team (EMEA, US, Asia), including providing feedback on applications, communicating new feature requests, performing QA for new versions, and managing deployments.
• Frequent communication with the Program Manager and Key Account Manager for your sites.
• Develop training material, provide on-site training, and update our client's Help Site as needed.
• Provide support during unscheduled downtime.
• Travel may be required on average of 30% but will vary based on projects' status.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing
• Diploma, Master's degree or higher in engineering or computer science
• Responsibilities commensurate with experience and education
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with industrial engineering concepts
• Knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle
• Effective communication skills and comfortable presenting to groups
• PowerPoint and presentation generation skills
• Self-starter with strong self-management
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects at the same time
• Excellent Italian and English skills, French or German would be an advantage

Additional Information
Our client offers a dynamic working environment that promotes diversity, equality, and inclusion. Their appreciative, innovative, and vibrant corporate culture can be felt in everything they do and how they do it.

What you will find with them:

• Smart and friendly colleagues who value team spirit, a positive attitude, and reliability, and who never miss out on the fun.
• Room for bold ideas and creative collaboration
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive salary, good social benefits, plus profit sharing
• Opportunities for further training and development
• Joint celebration of successes (and mistakes!... they are invaluable for their continuous development)
• Regular employee events (summer party, ski day, Christmas party, TeamDays)