Electronics Application Engineer

HydraForce, operating from our purpose-built facility in Birmingham, UK, is a global designer and manufacturer of motion control systems and the world’s leading manufacturer of hydraulic cartridge valves and custom hydraulic integrated circuits, as well as electronic controls for a variety of off-highway industries Bosch Rexroth and HydraForce bring together two world-class leaders in hydraulic motion control. By combining our strengths, we've broadened our hydraulics offering to deliver the world's highest quality hydraulic control solutions to more OEMs across the globe. Together, we are expanding the possibilities of hydraulic control technology to provide innovative and reliable solutions.

To provide applications support and solutions to customers and colleagues to meet customer requirements for electronic / electro-hydraulic systems globally.

Further to provide comprehensive technical advice and expertise to both HydraForce Customers and HydraForce Internal Departments, liaising with field based Sales personnel and internal departments to ensure the effective provision of information and advice to meet customer needs.

• Review, advise and process system requests (including those for new/modified products) from the field and support sales at customers to initiate new (electronic) projects, if required
• Review and process requests for hardware adaptations or development, as well as providing technical expertise and advice
• Provide product and systems recommendations on a timely basis in accordance with customer needs and requirements
• Integrate electro-hydraulic control systems with OEM specific electronic architecture
• Create statement of work in early project phase, to be used for (budgetary) development cost calculation
• Develop project specific documentation to fullfil customer requirements, but also against internal guidelines, incl. fulfilling necessary standards
• Develop application specific software and provide field support when required for the initial test and optimization of systems and components
• Provide field support when required for system commissioning
• Liaise with Sales, Customers and other personnel to report activities and progress
• Involved in creating market surveys for special markets or application solutions, providing feedback and recommendations based on gathered data
• In field data-acquisition (e. g. PEAK PCAN-Explorer) incl. data-analysis and conclusion