Hiring: Application Engineer III Company: Hengli America Location: Bolingbrook, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:36:04 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : CAD, R About the job Experience: •35+ years of demonstrated hydraulic application experience may be considered. Required Skills: •Hengli America Corporation (www.henglihydraulics.com) is a subsidiary of Jiangsu Hengli Hydraulic Co. Ltd., a world class manufacturer of hydraulic components and hydraulic system integrator located in Changzhou China approximately 3 hours from Shanghai. •Hengli’s brand is recognized globally as a superior supplier in earthmoving and construction, mining, lift, aerial work platform, marine and offshore, and the oil and gas markets. We produce customized hydraulic cylinders, industrial hydraulic valves, mobile valves, piston pumps and motors, and various pneumatic products. •Hengli America is in the greater Chicago area and is rapidly growing in the areas of product research and development, application development, manufacturing, and customer service. •Technical Application Support: Serve as a senior technical authority for complex hydraulic and electrohydraulic systems; define application architecture, analyze system interactions and risk, and lead resolution of highcomplexity technical challenges. •Product Selection & Configuration: Lead complex product/system sizing, selection, configuration, integration, competitive conversion, and design validation across Hengli product families; establish sound technical approaches for strategic and highvalue applications. •Customer & Distributor Support: Own strategic OEM, distributor, and keycustomer technical relationships; lead highlevel application reviews, technical negotiations, presentations, and solution development with urgency and credibility. •Application Discovery: Define and enforce disciplined discovery for complex applications, ensuring complete performance, dutycycle, controls, environmental, installation, safety, validation, commercial, and lifecycle requirements are understood before solution commitment. •Sales Support: Partner with Sales on strategic opportunities by shaping technical strategy, proposals, specifications, demonstrations, customer training, competitive conversions, and executivelevel technical presentations. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, agricultural, fluid power, mechatronics, or a related engineering/technical field; equivalent relevant education and 35+ years of demonstrated hydraulic application experience may be considered. •Expert demonstrated competence in hydraulic and electrohydraulic systems, components, schematics, system interactions, controls, application architecture, and complex/highvalue application ownership. •Advanced proficiency in product/system sizing, selection, configuration, integration, design review, structured troubleshooting, rootcause analysis, FMEA, corrective action, and technical risk assessment. •Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and customerfacing communication skills with the ability to influence OEM engineers, customer leadership, sales professionals, manufacturing teams, and global technical resources. •Demonstrated technical judgment, leadership, problemsolving, ownership, active listening, mentoring, decisionmaking, urgency, and ability to lead through complex or ambiguous technical situations. •Advanced proficiency with CAD/engineering tools, ERP, CRM, product configurators, Microsoft Office, and analytical/modeling tools appropriate to assigned applications. •Strong working knowledge of quality, safety, documentation, changecontrol, RCA, FMEA, continuousimprovement, and projectmanagement practices; functional safety, advanced controls/modeling, or equivalent development is preferred. •Ability and willingness to travel to customers, distributors, manufacturing locations, training events, and trade shows as business needs require. •Demonstrated capacity to speak Chinese (Mandarin) is a plus. •Local to the greater Chicago/Bolingbrook, Illinois area or willing to relocate is ideal. Hybrid roles will be considered for well qualified candidates. Compensation: •$100,000 - $140,000 / year •Participating in annual bonus program Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!