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.
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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: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.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.
