Application Engineer

Application Engineer

Location: Italy | James Walker

Are you a technically savvy professional with a passion for solving industrial challenges?

At James Walker, we engineer world‑class sealing solutions for the most demanding applications across oil & gas, power generation, chemical processing, marine, and heavy industries.

We’re looking for an Application Engineer who thrives in the field—someone can liaise directly with customers to provide technical solutions to sealing and material problems.

What You'll Do – Your Mission:

As an Application engineer, you’ll provide technical advice and guidance on the product and service capabilities of James Walker’s broad product range ensuring internal and external stakeholders and customers are communicated to and supported effectively.

Your key responsibilities include:

• To evaluate and provide product technical support to internal and external customers for queries that require technical solutions. This role includes providing a technical support service to customers onsite.
• To proactively support sales opportunities where the technical offering is key to order realisation and/or valued by the customer.
• To provide conceptual proposals of sealing and material solutions for customers.
• To provide and support product and application training for internal and external sales staff.
• To identify the need for new products and materials and to support the Manufacturing Business Units as required for projects that impact the Italian and global market.
• To recognise and interpret International, National, Customer and Company specifications.
• To produce and assist in the production of technical material and data for the use of James Walker employees.

What You Bring:

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Sealing and polymer application knowledge
• General CAD design experience
• Can read and create engineering drawings
• Ability to interpret and analyse engineering data
• Practical engineering skills
• Applicants must have native‑level proficiency in Italian and professional knowledge in English

Preferred:

• Areas of specialist knowledge of James Walker product types and applications, ideally including power, valve, marine industries and high‑performance elastomer products
• Seal design / application knowledge
• Polymer engineering knowledge

Why James Walker?

We’re a globally trusted name with over a century of engineering excellence. At James Walker, you’ll:

• Join a market leader trusted by major global industries
• Work in a role where technical skill strive excellence
• Get autonomy, flexibility, and real ownership over your job
• Have access to training, support, and career advancement opportunities

James Walker Values and Behaviours

Our values and ethos are central to the way we do business. They help to shape the culture of James Walker by defining the behaviors we expect from each other and guiding us in how we make decisions.

BUILD GREAT RELATIONSHIPS

Treat others as they would like to be treated

Share your experiences and always welcome feedback

Earn people’s trust; see things from their point of view

KNOW YOUR STUFF

Never stop learning; recognise failure and celebrate success

Understand our customers and what they need

Be an expert in what you do

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Give your work the personal touch, showing people, you enjoy what you do

Deliver great service and make someone’s day

If something goes wrong, amaze people with a dazzling recovery

GET THINGS DONE

Make things happen and give it your best

Get it right first time and never pass on a fault

Keep your promises

CHANGE FOR BETTER

Inspire others by the way you do things

Never be afraid to try something new

Ask yourself "is this my best?"

Ready to Elevate Your Career?