Application Engineer – FEA – Dammam – KSA

About the company:

Fluid Codes is the APEX Channel Partner of ANSYS Inc., authorized with exclusive rights to distribute and provide support for ANSYS Engineering Simulation Solutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation, helping the world’s most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, Ansys helps companies solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination.

Job Summary:

Application Engineer, FEA based in KSA will provide pre/post-sales support, technical training for customers in Middle-East region using ANSYS Structural products by responding to customer inquiries, including to guiding/assisting on industrial applications, appropriate simulation usage.

Essential Functions:

The essential functions of the ideal candidate in day-to-day work are:

• Provide high-quality efficient pre/post-sales technical support to our customers, through email and telephone.
• Develop technical support repositories that help ANSYS customers to be productive and efficient.
• Support the sales team in the engagement with the customers from the technical point of view, by creating elegant and useful simulation solutions, participating in meetings, performing live presentations as well as demo cases, and developing case studies to show the customers how the ANSYS solutions can help them to improve their productivity and revenue.
• Provide basic and advanced training for new and existing customers.
• Responsible for articulating ANSYS’ value proposition which may encompass its entire suite of products; the presentations must affirm the sales message, differentiate ANSYS, and leave a strong and positive impression to audiences which can include senior company executives.
• Work independently to analyze technical needs, requirements, and state of a customers’ current infrastructure, operations, and engineering workflows.
• Develop and strengthen long-term relationships with customers.
• Work collaboratively with Customers to ensure their successful use of ANSYS products, sustain a renewals revenue stream and cultivate opportunities to expand software licenses.
• Be proactive regarding new opportunities related to Structural Analysis or any other ANSYS product.

Desire Candidate Profile:

• Hold a BSc/MsC in Mechanical/Civil, Aeronautical Engineering.
• Have a minimum of 2 years of proven experience in solving Structural Engineering problems, of which 1 year at least using ANSYS tools for Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
• Have a strong background in Structural and Thermal engineering.
• Have an overall culture in Structural Analysis (Static Structural, Linear, Non-Linear, Spectrum, Harmonic, Random Vibration, Explicit Dynamics…).
• Knowledge about ANSYS Mechanical (APDL).
• Knowledge about ANSYS Spaceclaim/ DesignModeler.
• Knowledge about Engineering Codes and Standards (ASME, API…).
• Excellent communication skills in English (writing and presenting).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to facilitate and conduct webinars and presentations to customers.
• Logical problem-solving approach and the ability to clearly communicate the situation and proposed solution to the customer.
• Possesses a sense of urgency, strong organizational and follow up skills.
• Have an engaging personality, engineering curiosity, willingness for continuous learning and professional mindset.
• Team player.
• Have the ability to travel up to 20%.