United States, Rocky Hill, CT, Adhesive Technologies **Lead Application Engineer** At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth. **Dare to make an impact?** **YOUR ROLE** + Directly interact and communicate with external customers to value sell Henkel’s adhesives. + Contributes to strategic and tactical planning. Identifies and drives new business development activities. + Supports R&D projects critical to business. + Generates test plans and/or experiments. + Prepare and deliver presentations on projects/technologies for external customer, internal teams and management. + Identify new opprtunities for product development and work with development project teams to bring these opportunities to market. **YOUR SKILLS** + B.S. Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or Material Science. + 6 to 10 years of demonstrated related experience, preferably with adhesives. + Strong customer relations and interpersonal skills. + Proven leadership, sense of urgency, self-starter – takes the initiative. + Customer support experience (providing product application training). + Potential for up to 30% overnight travel per year. The salary for this role is $90,000.00 - $108,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range. This salary range may also be modified in the future. Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral. At Henkel's request only, preferred vendors may be invited to refer talent for specific open positions. In these cases, a fully-executed agreement with Henkel must be in place and current. All employees applying for an internal position must have a discussion with his/her manager about their interest in a job posting opportunity. The discussion will not preclude the employee from interviewing if their skills meet the job requirements. At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different races, colors, religions, sexes, national origins, disabilities, veteran statuses, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and other legally protected characteristics. **JOB ID:** 24066882 **Contract & Job type:** Regular - Full Time **Contact information for application-related questions:** talent.acquisition@henkel.com Please do not use this email address for sending your application or CV. To apply, please click on the "Apply Now" button below. Applications sent via e-mail will not be accepted.