Your mission

As an Application engineer at MiCROTEC you will become an expert on our product series Woodeye and Goldeneye. In the beginning of your employment, you will follow your experienced colleagues to get to know the delivery process for one or more customer projects, both internally and externally. You will learn from our senior Application engineers about the different parts of the work such as tuning of our scanner, customer training, commissioning, and acceptance. Client service, upgrades of hard and software as well as periodic measures of improvement of customer systems will be a part of your tasks.

When you are more confident in your role you will lead your own customer projects with full responsibility for delivery. You are our main contact towards the customer under the delivery phase of a project and you will have recourses and processes supporting your work. As an Application engineer you will have a wide role where project management, application integration, education, installation, monitoring and service are your daily tasks. Measures of improvement is something that we constantly are working with, and we think a sense of order and structure are important features to have to be able to thrive at our company.

Our customers are located all over the world, but your base will be in Linköping where you will have all the resources you might need to get the job done. As an Application engineer at MiCROTEC you will travel to our customers in different countries. So you need to be comfortable in splitting your time, traveling and working from the office. 

About you

We are looking for someone with a background as an engineer in the areas of electricity,  electronics, mechanics, data or wood working and have had other technical roles before, both practical and theoretical. It is a big plus if you have competence regarding wood, image processing, optics, camera or visual technologies. Furthermore, you have a good understanding for coding and knowledge in trouble shooting for both hard and software. The employment requires a driver’s license and of course you are a good user in the Office package.

As a person you are communicative, proactive, cooperative and prestige. You have the ability to plan and structure and you like the challenge of problem-solving. You are social and like to meet other persons and have no problem speaking English. If you speak another languages, it is a plus as well if you love travelling.  

Why MiCROTEC?

We are a high-tech company of dedicated people making quality scanners and software products that enable a better use of wood and make the world a better place. The boards pass through the scanner in speeds up to 1200m/minute and inspects up to 6 sides of the board. Sensors, cameras, and lasers specialized in detecting different qualities in wood helps to get a complete picture of the material and its qualities. The scanner makes decisions regarding sorting, classification and cutting based on the clients’ specific requirements and creates a consistent and optimal result.

As an Application engineer at MiCROTEC you get an unique opportunity to see the world and work in a company with cutting edge solutions. Our success is based on a strong team and constant development of our product series. We are 45 enthusiastic and happy employees; our turnover is a bit over 100 MSEK and we have one office in Linköping and another in Rosenheim, Bavaria.

Our products have a clear market advantage when it comes to discovering defects in wood at a high speed with equivalent results all hours of the day. With extreme precision and optimal esthetic recognition, we detect attributes that are important for every application.