Food Processing Engineer / Senior Application Engineer (WI, IL, MA)

Job Title: Food Processing Engineer (Senior Application Engineer)
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Locations: Appleton, WI or Eagle, WI or Pleasant Prairie, WI or Burr Ridge, IL or Danvers, MA (relocation assistance available)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Base Salary: $110,000 to $130,000 per year
Industry: Food & Beverages
Category: Engineering, Process

Position Summary

Dhaka Technologies Limited Company (DTLC) is hiring on behalf of its client for a Senior Application Engineer supporting sanitary process equipment across food, beverage, and industrial manufacturing. The role provides clients with expert guidance on equipment functionality and operation, advising on how vendor equipment supports and integrates within their processes, selecting and sizing equipment, preparing quotes, and supporting the Outside Sales Team.

Client Screening Question

1. Do you have knowledge with quoting PD (positive displacement) pumps?
   

Why This Role

• Impact: serve as the technical lead shaping large scale sanitary process projects across multiple industries.
  
• High growth environment: the business is expanding, with a new office opened in 2025.
  
• Trusted by industry leaders: serve Fortune 500 food and beverage companies.
  
• Career growth: the role can be a launchpad into inside sales or operations.
  
• Culture: family owned and long term focused, with profit sharing, fast decision making, and minimal bureaucracy.
  
• Stability: serving markets that hold up in all economic conditions.
  

Responsibilities

• Lead technical reviews, present equipment recommendations, and communicate process concepts clearly to customers and internal teams.
  
• Serve as the primary technical resource for clients, providing expertise across project lifecycles.
  
• Support customers in the sizing and selection of equipment that best aligns with process goals, sanitary standards, and long term reliability.
  
• Review client specifications, P&IDs, and drawings to understand process requirements and constraints, recommending appropriate equipment sizes, pump types, and configuration.
  
• Collaborate with plant managers, engineers, and project teams to identify efficient, cost effective equipment solutions.
  

Inside Sales Support

• Obtain and evaluate vendor quotes, ensuring proper alignment with client needs.
  
• Generate pricing quotations on behalf of customers for equipment supplied by the company's key vendors and in-house value-add capabilities.
  
• Provide sales support to the Outside Sales Team, providing quotations as needed.
  

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
  
• Ten or more years of process engineering experience in sanitary process (pumps and valves)
  
• Strong knowledge of process design, sanitary equipment, and fluid systems
  

Benefits

• Annual bonus
  
• Company subsidized health, dental, and life/disability insurance, with HSA/FSA
  
• 401(k) retirement plan with net 4 percent employer match, plus a 5 percent discretionary profit share plan
  

Candidate Information Form (please complete fully with your submission)

1. Full name (as per ID)
   
2. Present location (city and state)
   
3. Phone number
   
4. Email ID
   
5. LinkedIn profile
   
6. Work authorization / visa and validity
   
7. Total work experience, relevant experience, years in USA
   
8. Highest education (year of passing and college name)
   
9. Certifications, if any
   
10. Availability for interview (preferred time)
    
11. Currently on a project (yes/no); if yes, reason for change or new project
    
12. Willingness to travel across US/Canada, as applicable
    
13. Any interviews in the pipeline
    
14. Any final interviews pending
    
15. Comfortable with contract or full-time (please specify)
    
16. Have you been submitted to the above client or vendor before
    
17. Notice period
    
18. Vacation plans in the next three months
    
19. Do you have any final interviews or offers currently (yes/no)
    

How to Apply

Qualified candidates should send an updated resume along with the details above to bijon.das@dhakatech.us.