Tanner Mullins
Rutledge
Summary
Dynamic application engineering manager with a proven track record at Thermon, excelling in team leadership and complex problem-solving. Spearheaded strategic project implementations, enhancing customer satisfaction and project margins. Adept at cross-functional collaboration and costing analysis, driving innovative solutions that meet and exceed client expectations, while protecting business margins.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager of Application Engineering
Thermon
02.2025 - Current
- Led a team that bridges customer needs with technical solutions in professional bid packages.
- Managing the design, implementation, and support of project applications to meet customer timelines.
- Collaborating with sales and product teams, and handling strategic planning for application development.
- Create cost analysis' to review project margins with live costing to ensure competitive and lucrative deals.
Manager of Electrode Planning and Customer Coord.
Precision Boilers / Vapor Power
10.2023 - 02.2025
- Oversees the entire lifecycle of projects involving electrode boiler systems, from feasibility to commissioning.
- Managing teams (internal departments and externals customers/engineering firms), budgets, timelines, and quality, ensuring compliance with customer expectations and specifications.
- Leading bid reviews during the quoting stage to understand scope and timelines, to ensure engineering and production has the knowledge and capacity to meet the projects needs.
- Working close with global product expert to take 30 years of tribal knowledge and create physical "book of knowledge" to create processes and tools to understand and calculate complex designs.
Inside Sales - Application Engineer
Precision Boilers
11.2020 - 02.2023
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements and develop tailored solutions to present to end users or contracted representatives.
- Delivered technical presentations to clients, showcasing product capabilities and benefits.
- Assisted in troubleshooting customer issues, providing timely resolutions and support.
- Reviewed customer order forms and purchase orders, hosted internal kick-off meetings, and facilitated the order entry process from PO acceptance to shipment.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN08-2020
Associate of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Walters State Community College
Morristown, TN05-2018
Skills
- Team leadership
- Decision-making
- Complex Problem-solving
- Staff training and development
- Project management
- Cross-functional teamwork
- Customer relationship management (CRM)
- Data analysis
- Computer skills
Timeline
Manager of Application Engineering
Thermon
02.2025 - Current
Manager of Electrode Planning and Customer Coord.
Precision Boilers / Vapor Power
10.2023 - 02.2025
Inside Sales - Application Engineer
Precision Boilers
11.2020 - 02.2023
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Tennessee
Associate of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Walters State Community College