Field Application Engineer III

Nidec Motor Corporation•Eden Prairie, MN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides pre-order onsite and phone/email technical and commercial application support in effort to grow sales at End-user, OEM, Distributor and System Integrator accounts and meet the Company’s sales objectives. This role involves providing technical sales and application support to the Nidec Drives field sales staff, promoting sales of Products and Services. The Field Application Engineer will assist or lead in demonstrating Nidec Drives products to customers, must be proficient in all current products and applications sold in the Region, including Motion Control, High performance and General-purpose applications. They will be proficient in sizing drives, motors, and peripheral devices, and prepare training and sales presentations. The role also involves assisting field sales personnel and customers with product selection, mentoring other team members, and assisting customers with software program development for complex machinery. Additionally, the position supports the greater engineering organization through Technical Support and Field Service needs via email, phone, ticket responses, and site visits. Scheduled on-site visits to accounts are required to gain insight, gather technical data, and provide guidance. Travel is required throughout the region.

Requirements

Four year technical engineering degree BSE, BSEE, BSEET, BSME, BSMET required or equivalent.
Five years + of engineering/selling automation solutions.
Experience with Drives and/or Motion Control is highly preferred, including PLC’s and motion controller
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 5 years of prior relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Provide technical sales and application support to the Nidec Drives 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 Drives products to customers.
Be proficient in all current products and application sold in the Region, which includes Motion Control, High performance and General-purpose applications including pumping in irrigation and municipal application.
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.
Travel required throughout the region.