MSC Industrial Supply Co. UK
Application Engineer
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About the Role
As an Applications Engineer at MSC, you will work with some of the UK’s best engineering businesses, delivering engineering excellence to enhance their operation and drive engineering credibility throughout our business and our customers.
Supporting the Account Manager by taking the lead on Technical Solutions within our Large and National customers, identifying better processes for Continuous Improvements and NPI, efficiency gains, delivering cost savings all aligning with their business goals and objectives.
Through exceptional technical credibility, you will showcase our capability, and working alongside our business development team, you will play a crucial part in our operation.
Are you looking to take your career to the next level? When you join MSC, we offer you more than just a job. We provide the opportunity to grow and develop, helping you build your career. Great businesses need great people - that’s where you come in!
What’s in it for me?
At MSC, you will be able to shape your role and develop your career. We believe in continuous growth, offering ongoing coaching, mentoring, and a culture of personal and professional development.
In addition to career growth, we offer generous benefits:
- Holiday entitlement: 25 days of holiday + bank holidays + a paid day off for your birthday
- Company Pension Scheme: Matched up to 10% of your annual salary
- Life Insurance: 6x your annual salary
- Private Medical
- Healthcare Support: Discounted health cash plan and private medical insurance
- Exclusive Discounts: Access to discounts and rewards across popular brands for shopping, travel, and more
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What will I be doing?
- Provide onsite technical support with metalworking issues.
- Analyse their current manufacturing processes to propose solutions to drive both cost and productivity savings
- Tooling consolidation and rationalization
- Tool Trials
- Benchmark & propose new tooling / manufacturing methods
- Cutting Tool recommendations including speeds and feeds
- Cad/Cam programming, ideally Siemens NX. Other software considered
- Onsite / Offsite prove outs, working with customers and MSC’s technology center
- Deliver guaranteed cost saving target in assigned accounts
- Work with Strategic partners on metalworking projects
- Support business development on new account wins
- Any other duties in line with business and departmental needs
Join the team with a fresh perspective - by adopting an inquisitive mindset, you will be able to help transform our business. We’re sure you look at things differently from how we do, so we invite you to question the norm. This also translates to your approach to our customers; your ability to ask insightful, thought-provoking questions will enable you to truly add value to their business.
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Our people are what makes us unique as a business, and our associates are recognised for exuding passion. We believe that this enthusiasm and mindset are what instill belief, excitement, and courage in our customers. Your intensity will make us stand out and will confirm to our customers that they have made the right choice to work with MSC.
We trust that our people will be able to teach you role-specific skills, but for you to truly succeed at MSC, you will embody our values and these significantly important attributes, ones that MSC believes embody talent within our business.
Values:
- Connections: Your interpersonal skills, how well you manage relationships, and how rewarding you are to deal with
- Thinking: The abilities you draw upon to solve problems, learn, and be agile
- Creativity: How adept you are at creating solutions and working with change
- Drive: Your level of ambition. The pace, energy, and enthusiasm applied to activities
Ultimately, we identify talent in people who can demonstrate our values, and the behavior's required to thrive in our business. So, if you can operate effectively in a team, demonstrate customer-centricity, and are eager to make a difference, then we would love to hear from you - apply today!
Benefits:
- Company car
- Company pension
Work Location: On the road
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