Director, Application Engineering – Specification

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🔥 14 hours ago

🏈 Ohio – Remote

🏈 Ohio – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Hillman Ross

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

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Hillman Ross is a professional search and selection recruitment agency focused on providing personalized, confidential, and relationship-driven staffing services for both organizations and job-seekers. They work across a broad range of functions—Information Technology, Legal, Secretarial & Office Support, Banking & Finance, Sales & Marketing, Construction & Property, Human Resources, Engineering, Retail & Sourcing, Supply Chain, Accounting & Finance, Logistics & Procurement, and Luxury & Retail—helping clients recruit and develop top-tier professionals and offering career management for candidates. Founded on the pillars of Knowledge, Professionalism and Integrity, Hillman Ross emphasizes long-term partnerships, market insight, and best-practice processes, holding an EA license (No. 73551).

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a national strategy to increase specification, approval, and adoption of PowerPro solutions in residential, multifamily, and light-commercial construction • Prioritize applications, geographies, customers, influencers, and projects with greatest commercial potential • Drive inclusion in construction specifications, builder standards, approved-product lists, project takeoffs, contractor submittals, and code-approved applications • Design and govern the process connecting technical influence to project conversion and revenue • Create handoffs among Application Engineering, Sales, Product, Marketing, and channel partners • Use CRM and project-tracking tools to maintain visibility into specifications, approvals, opportunities, actions, and conversion • Recruit, develop, and lead field-based Application Engineers • Establish territory coverage, operating rhythms, account and project prioritization, activity expectations, performance measures, and career paths • Build relationships with architects, engineers, designers, builders, developers, contractors, code officials, municipalities, plan reviewers, and other influencers • Provide leadership on application guidance, specification development, code interpretation, evaluation reports, certifications, testing data, competitive equivalencies, and installation practices • Support strategic projects from design through installation and represent Hillman in professional associations, technical forums, customer events, and trade shows • Partner with lumberyards, building-material dealers, buying groups, distributors, and outside sales teams to increase recommendation and conversion • Create technical-selling programs, joint customer engagement, and project-support models • Own AIA and continuing-education strategy, including accredited programs, lunch-and-learns, certification seminars, code education, and technical workshops • Build train-the-trainer programs and technical tools for sales teams, representatives, dealer personnel, contractors, and design professionals • Translate customer, jobsite, code, channel, and competitive insight into products, applications, approvals, certifications, and technical resources • Partner across Product Management, Engineering, Compliance, Marketing, and Sales to close market gaps and improve customer outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Building Science, or a related technical discipline • At least 10 years of experience in construction products, engineered building materials, fastening systems, specification sales, technical services, field engineering, or application engineering • At least 5 years of experience leading technical, engineering, or field-based teams, including experience building or scaling a capability • Demonstrated success influencing design professionals, builders, contractors, distributors, channel partners, and code or approval stakeholders • Experience with fastening, anchoring, structural connectors, engineered wood, gypsum systems, or adjacent building-material categories preferred • Experience with ICC-ES evaluation reports, testing programs, certifications, approvals, building-code compliance, AIA continuing education, CRM, construction project intelligence, BIM, specification, or project-management platforms preferred • Strong knowledge of construction methods, building materials, fastening applications, specifications, and code-compliant solutions • Ability to translate complex technical information into practical decisions, differentiated customer value, and measurable commercial results • Entrepreneurial and commercially minded approach with ability to build strategy, teams, processes, and market credibility • Executive-level communication, presentation, relationship-building, and cross-functional leadership skills • Sound engineering judgment, accountability, customer focus, and commitment to technical excellence • Ability to establish priorities, operating rhythms, performance measures, and scalable processes across a distributed team • Ability to travel throughout North America • Professional Engineer (PE) or Engineer in Training (EIT) credential preferred • Successful completion of a pre-employment background check and drug screen

🏖️ Benefits

• Virtual work option • Standard office equipment, computer, mobile device, CRM and project-tracking systems, presentation technology, and applicable construction/specification software • Personal protective equipment may be provided or required for site visits • Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities • Equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination protections

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