Application Engineer

Regal Rexnord•Fort Wayne, IN

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Application Engineer for PES Motors & Drives. Serve as the technical liaison for the highly valued customers assigned to you by translating customer drawings, specification, and requests in to product solutions that meet customer and business needs. Understand customer application to establish tests and procedures for qualifying our products and optimizing our tools and to proactively identify opportunities to bring value to the customer while driving profitable growth for Regal Rexnord. Act as the subject matter expert in Motors and Drives at customer sites and serve as the main point of contact between our customer’s engineering team and the global engineering team. Support routine product changes, deviations, and sample development. Provide leadership and timely resolution to outstanding customer issues and support basic product tear down analysis of reliability returns for root cause and corrective action development. Lead or support internal qualification efforts on customer impacting design changes and transition projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related experience
3-5 years of experience in HVAC, commercial appliance, commercial refrigeration, or electric motor Industry
Demonstrated organizational skills with emphasis on documentation
Ability to gather requirements, write specifications, test plans, and application notes
Exceptional oral and written communication skills
Strong relationship and team-building skills; Including conflict resolution
Individual must be proactive, high energy and have strong problem solving skills
Strong time management skills
Willingness and Ability to learn, help, create and adapt to new technologies
Aptitude for troubleshooting computer hardware and software program issues
Ability to travel and work at a customer site for an extended period of time

Nice To Haves

5 to 7 yrs. experience in HVAC, commercial appliance, commercial refrigeration, or electric motor Industry
Master's degree o equivalent experience
Ability to interpret electronics and schematics, bill of materials and engineering drawings
Six Sigma trained, Experience with statistical analysis, Greenbelt certified
Design Experience with ECM and/or PSC motors
English required; Spanish a plus
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

Responsibilities

Work as technical liaison for PES customers; Leading efforts to qualify existing and new motors (ECM & PSC) and other product solutions into their applications
Understand customer applications to establish tests and procedures to qualify our Motors & Drives products and optimize our tools
Acts as main point of contact between customer engineering team and our global engineering team
Support routine product changes, deviations and sample development
Act as a subject matter expert in motor technology at customer site
Provide solutions to our customers for their applications
Conduct evaluations of customer applications and proactively look for opportunities to bring value to the customer while driving profitable growth for Regal Rexnord
Conduct competitive analysis on motors from other manufacturers
Strengthen relationship with customers by timely resolution of outstanding issues
Help engineering team to flow down customer key requirements to internal product design requirements
Lead or support internal qualification efforts on customer focused design changes and transition projects
Support basic product tear down analysis of reliability returns for root cause and corrective action
Support DCX (digital customer experience)