Partner with Sales to design smart, value-driven automation solutions. Analyze customer needs, create tailored concepts, and present technical solutions with confidence. Join KION as a Solution Design Engineer and turn innovation into impact!We offer:
- Join a fast-growing tech leader shaping the future of intralogistics.
- Work in an international environment with diverse, talented teams.
- Enjoy flexibility with adaptable working hours and up to 40% remote work.
- Benefit from an attractive compensation package, including a company car, meal vouchers, and comprehensive insurance.
- Recharge with 36 vacation days to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
- Partner with Sales as a technical expert to define customer needs and develop value-driven automation solutions.
- Analyze and interpret customer requirements to design tailored intralogistics concepts that align with operational and strategic goals.
- Develop technically and economically feasible solutions, leveraging KION and third-party technologies to achieve the best possible customer outcome.
- Prepare and validate business cases, including technical design, cost estimation, and timeline assessment.
- Engage directly with customers, representing the technical solution with clarity and confidence during presentations and discussions.
- Collaborate across interfaces - Sales, Realization, Product Management, Service, and R&D teams - to ensure alignment and smooth handovers.
- Contribute to standardization and best practices, improving design quality, efficiency, and scalability.
- Provide feedback and market insights to strengthen KION’s solution portfolio and support continuous improvement.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Logistics, Automation, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills, balancing technical depth and commercial awareness.
- Proven ability to work closely with customers and Sales in a solution-oriented and consultative way.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to translate complex concepts into clear value propositions.
- Customer-focused, pragmatic, and collaborative mindset, with strong ownership and accountability.
- Proficiency with solution design and simulation tools is an advantage.
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
