Manager, Applications & Systems Engineering (Motion Control)

Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.

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Position Overview

The Motion Control Systems division is seeking a Manager II, Engineering, North America Applications and Systems, located onsite at our global headquarters in Radford, Virginia. This role leads the North America Level 2 Applications Engineering and Systems Engineering team. The position reports functionally through Product Engineering, with a dotted-line relationship to the MCS Global Vice President of Sales because its primary activities are customer-facing.

The ideal candidate is a collaborative, hands-on leader with strong structured problem-solving skills who can balance strategic improvement work with daily support for key customer accounts.

Tactically, the Manager leads immediate technical problem solving leveraging the team, ensuring products meet customer requirements and function as-intended. Both internally and in processes that involve customers (e.g. commissioning experiences), the Manager drives efficiency and productivity gains. This function leads technical support to sales and customers, resolving queries with a goal toward customer satisfaction.

Strategically, the Manager drives innovation by integrating new technologies and systems with purpose and a goal of customer success. It contributes to strategic planning by forecasting future technical needs as an input to product planning. The position ensures high standards in interoperability and in the outcomes of our product developments, maintaining the company’s reputation for quality and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Both pre-sale and post-sale customer engagements are within the responsibilities of this role, however, focus is on post-sales customer support of MCS products and systems.
  
  
  
  
• Collaborates closely with the L1 pre-sales Applications team to ensure cross-functional alignment and interactions resulting in a more seamless and positive customer experience.
  
  
  
  
• Collaborate with EMEAI and Asia Applications Engineering teams to leverage shared knowledge, experience, and capabilities; adopt best practices; and drive standardization across regions.
  
  
  
  
• Responsible for leading, tracking and maintaining data for Policy Deployment Targets to Improve and Key Performance Indicators and achieving them through a closed-loop, continuous improvement and problem-solving approach, involving: driving changes through kaizens and process improvement, developing tools, a​nd building the team to support the growth of the business.
  
  
  
  
• Manage the North America Product Training function to ensure effective planning and delivery of external customer training, both in-house and at customer sites.
  
  
  
  
• Oversee responsibilities that include:
  - Coordinating, scheduling and facilitating live training sessions scheduled periodically throughout the year both on-site and off-site.
  - Creating and maintaining training content including presentation materials and demo/test units used during the class.
  - Designing coursework and class syllabus to ensure maximum interest and impact to our customers.
  
  
  
  
• Establish standard work that defines the North America support structure and interfaces with other business functions.
  
  
  
  
• Promotes the growth and development of applications and systems teams at all levels to expand the capabilities and expertise within the group, including L1.
  
  
  
  
• Responsible for assisting North America Production, Quality and Engineering teams with defining quality issues and testing new products in development per customer requirements.
  
  
  
  
• Responsible for making determinations of need and scheduling field service visits for troubleshooting, commissioning and training purposes.
  
  
  
  
• Responsible for managing the budget of the Applications and Systems Engineering team.
  
  
  
  
• Travel up to 25% to customer sites.

Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Strong structured problem-solving skills

• Employee performance management practices

• Detail-oriented approach.

• Results-oriented, self-starting, and proactive.

• Strong analytical skills

• Solid understanding of engineering documents (Schematics, Component Data Sheets, PCB Layout, and product specifications) and technical product literature.

• Ability to collaborate with other team members across the organization and functions.

• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, etc.

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from customers, inspectors, managers, suppliers, and groups of engineers.

• Understanding of motion control theory and essential components.

• Understanding of various fieldbus protocols

• Experience with the use of multi-meters, oscilloscopes and data recorders for the purpose of troubleshooting product & systems issues.

• Experienced with EMC/EMI issues including wiring, shielding and grounding practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.

• 10+ years of industrial experience in Industrial Automation in a technical discipline.

• Minimum 3 years application engineering, systems engineering or design engineering with heavy customer interface required.

• Management or leadership experience required.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.

Expected Base Salary Range: $100,000–$155,800

The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the company's base pay compensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to the physical worksite location, the geographic market of that location, candidate's skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors.

Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a ‘U.S. Person’, which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

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