Director, Application Engineering – Specification

🔥 14 hours ago

🏈 Ohio – Remote

🏈 Ohio – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💻 Application Engineer

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The Hillman Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1964

🔧 Hardware

🛒 Retail

🏭 Manufacturing

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $1.1G POST IPO DEBT on 2026-06

Hardware • Retail • Manufacturing

The Hillman Group is a North American provider and distributor of hardware and home-improvement products, known for supplying items such as keys, fasteners, and related hardware to retail channels and end consumers. The company operates branded product lines and merchandising services across stores and e-commerce, serving independent hardware retailers, big-box home centers and other retail partners throughout North America.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a national strategy to increase specification, approval, and adoption in residential, multifamily, and light-commercial construction • Prioritize applications, geographies, customers, influencers, and projects with the 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 to 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 a culture of technical excellence, sound engineering judgment, accountability, customer partnership, and commercial impact • Build relationships with architects, engineers, residential 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 that produce pull-through demand • Extend the model into specialty channels such as gypsum, engineered wood, and specialty building products • 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 practical technical tools for sales teams, independent representatives, dealer personnel, contractors, and design professionals • Ensure technical content is accurate, current, code-compliant, clear, and commercially relevant • Translate customer, jobsite, code, channel, and competitive insight into new 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 the 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Standard office equipment, computer, mobile device, CRM and project-tracking systems, presentation technology, and applicable construction/specification software • Personal protective equipment may be required when visiting manufacturing, distribution, customer, or jobsite locations • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions • Equal employment opportunity and protection from discrimination and harassment • Employment offer contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment background check and drug screen

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