Engineer, Project & Application

PROJECT & APPLICATION ENGINEER

Organizational Summary:  Lindsay Corporation is a global company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, focused on providing irrigation and infrastructure solutions to meet the needs of a growing population. As one of the world’s leading providers of irrigation and water management, its Zimmatic systems are operating in more than 90 countries. Lindsay Corporation’s infrastructure division offers a wide range of products that aid in roadway maintenance and transportation safety. Since 1955, Lindsay Corporation has been at the forefront of research and development of products and services designed to meet the needs of a constantly evolving world. 

Functions: The Project & Application Engineer (PAE) is responsible to provide technical support to projects, sales and sales operations teams service on irrigation engineering, Lindsay products and after sales service support.

This position is based in our Netherlands office and offers a pleasant in-office setting.  20-25% travel is required for this position within the entire EMEA/APAC region.  This role requires a 40-hour work week and provides 25 holidays.

Recruiting Note:  The hiring manager for this position can easily be described more as a “mentor” than a “manager”.  His approach to training is to ensure his team feels supported, has the tools they need to perform the role and to provide them space to perform accordingly.

Responsibilities are, but not limited to: 

• Providing Sales Managers and Customer Service teams with technical supportive information and specific designs for mechanized irrigation projects
• Timely attend to dealer network with all technical requests related to Irrigation Application Engineering.
• Prioritizing attention to task related to orders received from Customer Service and dealer network.
• Support on dealer training and marketing activities by enhancing existing materials (manuals, brochures, presentations) with scientific justification on use and management of Centre Pivot and Lateral Move irrigation Systems
• Check to ensure (Reporting) that appropriate changes were made to resolve customers' problems.
• Ensure all company and departmental policies and safety processes are enforced.
• Assess general requirements of a project as requested by a client to provide for detailed or high-level project estimates.
• Provide high quality technical justifications in the form of reports on the use and management of irrigation systems in various climates, soil conditions and crops.
• Develop timely high quality and timely supporting arguments in the form of presentation / technical reports.
• Assess general requirements of a project as requested by a client to provide for a high-level project budget
• Adopt and follow project engineering processes and templates for hydraulic design and application engineering.
   

Requirements:

• 3-5 years or more experience in field of hydraulic engineering or irrigation engineering or in a related position
• Technical Degree in Agricultural, Irrigation Engineering or Civil similar
• Fluent in English language both verbal and written. Additional language would be an advantage.
• Experience and knowledge in Irrigation, hydraulics, hydrology, soil-water-plant relations, physics and mathematics concepts
• Irrigation Industry knowledge, including competitors. With Strong Technical background.
• Extensive product knowledge related to mechanized irrigation; to include the center pivot, lateral move, hose reel, etc.
• Irrigation engineering, soil-water-plant relations, pipeline and pump sizing.
• Capacity to deal and interpret hydraulics models.
• Solid computer skills, including MS Office, particularly Excel.
• Excellent Communication skills, professional reports and high standard presentations.
• Pro-active, ability to work in a fast-paced international team environment
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ready to and willing to learn and provide suggestions to improve processes.

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