Job Description: Application Engineer / Senior Application Engineer - Rock Drilling Tools
Location : Pune
Department : Rock Drilling Tools
Reports To : Contracts and Application Manager
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities
Technical & Application Support
- Understand customer requirements and recommend suitable rock drilling tools, products, and technical solutions.
- Ensure correct utilization and consumption of drilling tools at customer sites.
- Monitor drilling performance, tool life, consumption trends, and drill meterage.
- Investigate tool failures, conduct basic failure analysis, and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
- Prepare technical performance reports, Daily Progress Reports (DPR), and site visit reports.
Customer Relationship Management
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with customers, site teams, and key stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve product performance, customer satisfaction, and overall site productivity.
Dealer Support
- Monitor dealer performance and recommend improvement actions to enhance customer service and business effectiveness.
- Competence development of dealer engineers
Planning & Inventory Management
- Plan and maintain site inventory to ensure uninterrupted operations and avoid stock-out situations.
- Prepare and submit material requirements based on customer forecasts, consumption trends, and contractual commitments.
- Review monthly forecasts and align inventory planning with site requirements and business priorities.
- Monitor stock levels, conduct inventory reconciliation, and maintain accurate inventory records.
- Ensure timely procurement of consumables while maintaining agreed buffer stock levels.
- Track order status, dispatch schedules, shipment movement, and delivery timelines.
- Coordinate material transfers between warehouses, dealers, and mine sites as required.
- Prepare periodic inventory, consumption, forecast, and variance reports for review.
Logistics Coordination
- Coordinate with logistics and supply chain teams for timely submission of forecasts and material requirements.
- Monitor Goods in Transit (GIT) and proactively follow up to avoid delivery delays.
- Recommend appropriate shipment modes based on urgency, cost, and operational requirements.
- Support preventive planning to avoid material shortages and ensure smooth site operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience
- 3-7 years of experience in mining, construction, heavy equipment, drilling tools, or industrial consumables.
Required Skills :
- Strong knowledge of mining, drilling, construction equipment, or rock drilling tools.
- Inventory planning, material management, and consumption monitoring.
- Forecasting, supply chain coordination, and logistics follow-up.
- Customer relationship management and dealer support.
- Analytical thinking, problem-solving, and basic failure analysis.
- Good communication, reporting, and presentation skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and ERP systems; SAP experience will be an added advantage.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and travel to customer sites as required.
Preferred Attributes
- Customer-focused and service-oriented approach.
- Strong planning, ownership, and organizational skills.
- Team player with the ability to coordinate across sales, service, logistics, and product teams.
- Willingness to travel frequently to customer sites, dealers, and project locations.
Why Join Us
It all starts with people. The world needs metals and minerals for the energy transition and our cities and infrastructure must be developed to serve a growing population. To succeed, we need to speed up the shift towards more sustainable mining and construction industries. We at Epiroc accelerate this transformation, together with customers and business partners in more than 150 countries, by developing and providing creative and safe equipment, digital solutions, and aftermarket support.
📌 Application Engineer - Rdt (Pune)
🏢 Epiroc
📍 Pune