Application Engineer, Data Centers

Stanley Black & Decker is a global industrial and tools company with a Stanley Engineered Fastening team serving customers across engineered fastening applications. The Application Engineer will serve as the technical voice of customers in the data center market, leading design-in, qualification, solution delivery, technical escalations, and cross-functional collaboration. The role will also develop data center industry expertise and support customer projects through field rollout.

Responsibilities:

• Design-in and specification. Engage at the design and development stage, before specifications are frozen; get SEF joints written into OEM drawings, EPC standards, and master specifications
• Joint development and qualification. Prove the SEF solution early so it gets designed in rather than substituted later — lead application reviews, trials, and validation with the customer, and supply the technical evidence their engineering teams need to approve and specify it
• Industry fluency. Become SEF's internal authority on data center codes, standards, and nuance — seismic and structural requirements, bonding and grounding, NEC/UL and NFPA-driven electrical practice, fire-stopping and containment, cleanliness and FOD control in live white space, and safety/badging rules that govern work on an occupied campus
• Voice of the customer. Work collaboratively across all SEF functions, feeding voice-of-customer insight back to Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing: application gaps, competitive losses, and new product opportunities specific to this vertical
• Solutions Delivery. Bring SEF solutions to customer problems — samples, mock-ups, and live application demonstrations that show the joint working in their environment. Make the benefit explicit: installation speed, reliability, labor and rework avoidance, and total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Field problem resolution. Own technical escalations on active projects — root cause, corrective action, and a documented action plan
• Collaboration. Work as one team with the broader Application Engineering group, commercial team, vertical leads, product management, purchasing, operations and quality share plays that transfer to other verticals
• Competitive positioning. Maintain current, evidence-based comparisons against Huck, Ingersoll Rand, Gesipa, Ornit and others on install time and installed cost per joint to defend our TCO advantage
• A published, current data center application and standards playbook the whole AE team can use

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent applied experience
• 5+ years in application engineering, field engineering, or technical sales of fasteners, fastening tools, or engineered components
• Experience selling or specifying data center projects - construction, electrical, or infrastructure
• Working knowledge of mechanical joint design, fastener selection, torque/tension, corrosion, and vibration behavior
• Strong interpersonal skills, including oral and written communication; credible and persuasive in front of both a customer engineer and a field crew
• Program management skills — able to run multiple concurrent projects to a schedule, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive actions to closure
• Proficient with the Microsoft suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, SharePoint) for analysis, reporting, and customer-facing presentations
• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc)
• 3D CAD (SolidWorks preferred) a plus
• Knowledge of quality practice (APQP, PPAP, root cause analysis) preferred