Regional Product Engineer (Factory & Process Automation)

Our client is a highly diversified and prestigious industrial conglomerate with a deep-rooted history of driving industrial progress and technical engineering excellence across Southeast Asia. Operating through a prominent regional joint venture with a world-renowned European cable and connection technology manufacturer, they deliver world-class cabling, connectivity, and industrial automation solutions to leading manufacturing, process, and infrastructure sectors. By combining advanced European engineering with localized technical expertise, they provide customized, high-reliability systems that power regional industrialization.

The Product & Application Engineer is the technical bridge between world-class European/global engineering components (high-performance cables, connectivity systems, sensors, and switchgears) and real-world industrial automation clients in Malaysia. Operating as a technical solution provider rather than a rigid product seller, this individual contributor translates complex customer requirements into optimized engineering solutions, driving product success across the regional automation market.

1. Product Lifecycle & Technical Portfolio Management

• Technical Ownership: Manage high-end industrial automation and connectivity portfolios, including specialized cables, connectors, sensors, and switchgear components.

• Component Evaluation: Analyze product features, technical datasheets, and regulatory compliance standards to establish positioning and competitive advantages in the Malaysian market.

• Global Liaison: Act as the primary technical point of contact with international and regional R&D centers, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of product advancements and technical modifications.

2. Solution Design & Application Engineering

• Technical Advisory: Partner with B2B clients to analyze their factory or process system architecture, recommending the exact configurations of cables, sensors, and connectivity accessories required.

• Custom Integration: Design customized, project-specific technical solutions that integrate diverse, high-spec components into robust plant automation architectures.

• Tendering Support: Draft detailed technical blueprints, compile bills of materials (BOM), and establish technical documentation to support complex tender submissions and project bids.

3. Sales Enablement & Technical Training

• Internal Training: Conduct ongoing technical training, workshops, and product briefings for sales representatives and channel partners.

• Customer Demonstration: Lead live technical demonstrations and pilot test runs on-site at customer facilities to prove product capabilities.

• Troubleshooting Support: Provide advanced tier-2 technical support to resolve complex installation or operational anomalies for industrial clients.

Education & Technical Skills

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics, Instrumentation & Control Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Technical Expertise: Strong working knowledge of industrial cabling standards, connection technologies, sensor applications, and general factory automation ecosystems.

• Systems Literacy: Familiarity with basic CAD tools for reading/modifying layouts, along with general proficiency in ERP (such as SAP) and MS Office tools.

Experience & Competencies

• Professional Background: 2 to 5 years of progressive experience in an application engineering, product support, technical sales, or E&I (Electrical & Instrumentation) role.

• Industry Domain: Solid experience within the industrial automation, factory connectivity, switchgear, or industrial cable sectors.

• Consultative Mindset: Outstanding analytical skills paired with a customer-centric attitude; must be comfortable translating abstract engineering challenges into solid solutions.

• Communication: Fluency in English (spoken and written) is mandatory. The ability to speak Mandarin or Bahasa Malaysia is highly advantageous to facilitate communication with regional suppliers and local contractors.

• Competitive salary package with performance-based incentives and allowances.

• Comprehensive medical, insurance, and executive wellness coverage.

• Extensive professional development, including exposure to European engineering standards and advanced product training.

• High autonomy in solution-building within an entrepreneurial, supportive corporate culture.