Field Application Engineer III - Circle Pines - Nidec

Description

Job Title

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.

Job Description

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. Must 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.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS Expect 25%-50%

Customers

Work with all customer types, integrators, OEM's, End user's, distributors, etc.

Both by phone and at work at customer sites

Travel

Throughout Region, Region defined areas.

Occasional other states, as customer situations dictate, and national sales meetings

Overnight travel expected 1 or 2 x per month.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Education and Qualifications

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.

Additional Job Details

Technical T3

Organizational Impact

Works to achieve operational, functional, and/or business targets within team with direct and indirect impact on departmental or job family results, using practical technical principles

Intermediate-level technical contributor; generally works independently under moderate supervision and may seek advice of more senior employees in the same area

Failure to achieve results requires allocation of additional resources to meet goals and impacts project completion with the potential for additional financial expense.

Works on smaller, less complex projects/assignments

Communication & Influence

Communicates with employees typically within the department and/or job family, explaining and interpreting matters related to the department; may communicate with external clients or partners depending upon the job area

May influence employees within own job area at an operational level

Innovation & Complexity

Responsible for making minor improvements to technical/business processes, procedures, or systems to contribute to the performance of the team

Problems faced may be difficult but are not complex, requiring application of technical skills/analysis drawing from prior experiences, and typically involve consideration of multiple issues and impact job family and/or multiple teams

Leadership & Talent Management

May provide guidance, help with training and review work of entry-level employees

May lead parts of less complex projects or processes

Knowledge & Experience

Requires understanding of basic context and practical knowledge of technical and business environment as well as potential and upcoming technical advances within area of specialization, typically obtained through advanced education and relevant experience

Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec

Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: .pdf

Work Shift Schedule

No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.