Position Summary
The Application Engineer Industrial Hydraulics is responsible for delivering optimized hydraulic/pneumatic system, cylinders and Electromechanical drive solutions for industrial market by leveraging Parker Hannifin's comprehensive motion and control technologies
This role acts as a technical bridge between OEM customers, sales, and Parker's global engineering teams, ensuring that customer performance requirements are converted into reliable, efficient, and cost-effective system designs. The position demands strong hands-on hydraulic and pneumatic expertise, customer engagement skills, and the ability to influence design decisions at the machine architecture level.
Responsibilities
- Deeply understand customer machine function, productivity goals, uptime targets, energy efficiency needs, and total cost of ownershipaligned with Parker's Win Strategy
- Develop hydraulic system architectures including pumps, valves, cylinders for open and closed loop systems.
- Select and size pumps, motors, valves, cylinders, hoses, filters, and related components.
- Perform hydraulic calculations for flow, pressure, power, efficiency, and thermal performance.
- Prepare hydraulic schematics, layouts, bills of materials, and technical documentation.
- Optimize systems for energy efficiency, controllability, noise reduction, and reliability.
- Support RFQs and techno-commercial proposals by providing technical solutions and justifications.
- Function as the technical interface between customers, sales teams, and internal engineering functions.
- Support sales with technical presentations, system concepts, ROI justification, and differentiation versus competitors.
- Coordinate with Parker divisions (Hydraulic Controls, Cylinder Division, Filtration, Hose & Fittings, Motion Systems) to deliver integrated solutions.
- Troubleshoot issues related to performance, overheating, durability etc.
- Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and global engineering teams.
- Participate in DFMEA, cost-reduction, localization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide technical training and knowledge support to sales, service teams, and customers.
Key Accountabilities
- Deliver optimized hydraulic system solutions that meet OEM performance, reliability, and cost targets.
- Ensure technical accuracy and completeness of hydraulic designs, calculations, schematics, and BOMs.
- Own end-to-end hydraulic system design using Parker productspumps, valves, cylinders, filtration, hoses, fittings, and controls.
- Support timely and competitive RFQ responses with technically sound and differentiated proposals.
- Function as the technical authority for key OEMs and strategic accounts, supporting opportunity conversion and value-based selling.
- Resolve field and customer issues efficiently using structured root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Optimize system efficiency and total cost of ownership through value engineering and design improvements.
- Collaborate effectively across functions and regions to ensure alignment with Parker standards and processes.
- Maintain compliance with Parker, OEM, ISO, and SAE standards in all application engineering activities.
Build and sustain technical credibility with customers through professional engagement, training, and support.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent (Hydraulics specialization preferred).
- 1015 years of relevant experience in Industrial applications along with experience in design and selection of hydraulic components
- Strong understanding of hydraulic system architectures
- Hands-on experience in selection and sizing of hydraulic pumps, motors, valves, and cylinders.
- Knowledge of electro-hydraulics, proportional valves, and electronic controls.
- Ability to perform hydraulic calculations for flow, pressure, power, efficiency, etc.
- Proficiency in reading, creating, and reviewing hydraulic schematics and circuit diagrams.
- Familiarity with ISO, SAE, and OEM hydraulic standards and specifications.
Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin Corporation is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets.
