Applications Engineer - West Coast

Nidec Motor Corporation • Eden Prairie, MN

5d • Onsite

About The Position

This role provides technical sales and application support to the Nidec Control Techniques field sales staff, promoting sales of Products and Services to meet the Company’s sales objectives. The position involves assisting or leading product demonstrations, being proficient in all current products and applications sold in the Region (including Motion Control, High performance and General-purpose applications, and pumping in irrigation and municipal applications). Responsibilities include sizing drives, motors, and peripheral devices, preparing training and sales presentations, assisting with product selection, and developing software programs for complex machinery. The role also supports the greater engineering organization through Technical Support and Field Service needs and involves making scheduled on-site visits to accounts throughout the region, requiring 25%-50% travel.

Requirements

• Four-year technical engineering degree BSE, BSEE, BSEET, BSME, BSMET required or equivalent
• Five years + of engineering/selling automation solutions.
• Proficient in Motion Control Programming with both servo drive systems and vector drive systems.
• Familiarity with IEC61131 programming platforms.
• Experienced in implementing servo drives and VFD’s.
• Familiarity with industrial communications protocols, including EtherCAT, Ethernet IP, Mobus, and Profinet.
• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and minimum 7 years of prior relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Drives and/or Motion Control is highly preferred, including PLC’s and motion controller

Responsibilities

• Provide technical sales and application support to the Nidec Control Techniques field sales staff promoting sales of Products and Services to meet the Company’s sales objectives.
• Assist and/or take a lead role in demonstrating Nidec Control Techniques products to customers.
• Be proficient in sizing drive, motor and peripheral devices for effective use in application of the Company’s products.
• Prepare Training and Sales Presentations that demonstrate the Company’s capabilities to handle a customer’s application(s), which may also require the development of demonstration systems.
• Assist field sales personnel and customers with the selection of the Company’s products that best fit the application requirements, including the mentoring of other Control Techniques sales and technical team members.
• Assist customers with developing software programs to operate complex machinery. In some cases, completely develop the program from concept including debug and trouble-shoot to completion.
• Support greater engineering organization by contributing to Technical Support and Field Service needs via email, phone, ticket responses, and site visits.
• Makes scheduled on-site visits to OEM, Distributor, and User accounts to gain insight, gather technical data, and provide guidance in the application and selection of the Company’s Products and Services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior