Application Engineer II

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Job Summary

Work within a team, from customers, suppliers, and manufacturers, to translate designs into production. Provide technical guidance to support schedule and product cost to ensure overall success on projects. Utilize appropriate tools and resources to perform necessary design tasks including design conception, analysis, testing, and verification. Some key activities include designing motors both electrically and mechanically, sampling motors to customers, obtaining engineering approvals, setting up motors into production, and providing support to customers and plants for motors that are in production.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Creating product specifications
• Prepare proposals, quotations per customer and marketing request.
• Provide technical support for internal and on-site customers.
• Support sales and marketing with product selection.
• Develops and maintains relationships with different customers.
• Work with engineers from various departments to resolve problems that arise during and after implementation.
• Provide Ideas and participate in cost reduction projects.
• Support the software group Testing and troubleshooting new software versions.
• Support the development group on new platforms.
• Support Quality department.
• Able to read electrical diagrams.
• Perform testing per internal and/or external standards and create test result report.
• Review and summarize test data.
• Coordinate team meetings and conference calls with customer engineers, manufacturing, sales, and quality personnel.
• Create project-related schedules, resource plans, and test plans.
• Use lab tools and measuring equipment to test fractional horsepower motors.
• Graph technical and performance data and interpret results.
• Create and maintain production bill of materials and drawings for motor products.
• Support remote manufacturing plants. Troubleshoot and resolve quality issues with motor designs and manufacturing processes.

Additional Job Details

Qualifications:

• B.S in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 2-4 years of work experience, preferably in electric motor industry. Co-op/Internship experiences in engineering or manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Informal leadership skills and ability to collaborate with multi-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Solid interpersonal skills and team orientation.
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to navigate Microsoft Office application and learn other computer skills.
• Familiarity/experience to safely operate hand tools and power tools (drill, electric saw, etc.)
• Some travel required on a quarterly basis.

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

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.