Develops and maintains customer relationship with all relevant individuals in his/her district at all times, at all levels. Performs regular customer visits. Manages, coaches and directs all customer engineers in his/her district. Responsible for salary planning, career planning, corrective actions where necessary, establishes objectives and performance appraisals. Gives formal updates to all employees. Business, new hires, new products. Can invite any guest speaker. Initiates reports necessary for the business. Be the prime interface with the Product Divisions: tech support, training, spares, reliability. Monitors the CSD Award Program with quarterly results (election, announcements). Monitors the “mentor” program so that all new engineers have a defined mentor. Executes escalation procedure. Responsible for account planning with District Sales Engineer. Provides support plan for system sales to CSD Management, Sales, Field Engineering. Measured by the financial result. Responsible for system installation; planning, reporting and execution, pre-facility meeting, start-up meeting, process support identification. Manages RMA procedure. Measurement of the engineers on their effectiveness. Manages accuracy, understanding and update of Customer Engineer hours tracking. Personal cross check and signature, measures customer engineers, takes corrective action with customer engineers. Works on issues where analysis of situation or data requires review of relevant factors Receives assignments in the form of objectives with goals and the process by which to meet goals. Recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies. Management reviews work to measure meeting of objectives Provides direction to employees according to established policies and management guidance. Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees Interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, conducting presentations of technical information concerning specific projects or schedules.