Application Engineer

Regal Rexnord; Fort Wayne (IN); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision and Rx

HSA/Health FSA/ Dependent Care FSA

Paid Time Off and Holidays

401k with employer matching

Life and AD&D Insurance

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Regal Rexnord is seeking an Application Engineer for PES Motors & Drives in the United States. The role is hybrid, onsite at a Regal Rexnord location at least 3 days per week with up to 2 remote days.

You will translate customer drawings into product solutions and serve as the main liaison between customer and global engineering teams. Responsibilities include leading motor qualification, supporting product changes, and driving value for customers while maintaining strong relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related experience.
• 3–5 years in HVAC, commercial appliance, refrigeration, or electric motor industry.
• Demonstrated organizational skills with emphasis on documentation.
• Ability to gather requirements, write specifications, test plans, and application notes.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Strong relationship and team-building skills; conflict resolution.
• Proactive, high energy, and strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong time-management skills.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Aptitude for troubleshooting computer hardware and software issues.
• Ability to travel and work at a customer site for extended periods.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical liaison for PES customers and qualify motors and other products.
• Translate customer drawings and requests into product solutions.
• Establish tests and procedures for qualification of Motors & Drives products.
• Act as main contact between customer engineering and global engineering teams.
• Support product changes, deviations, and sample development.
• Lead or support internal qualification on customer-focused design changes and transitions.

Skills

Communication skills

Team-building

Proactive mindset

Time management

Learning agility

Troubleshooting hardware/software

Travel readiness

Documentation skills

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Work Model: You’ll work in a hybrid model, onsite at your designated Regal Rexnord location at least 3 days per week (Monday–Thursday), with flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days, including Friday.

Application Engineer for PES Motors & Drives. Serve as the technical liaison for the highly valued customers assigned to you by translating customer drawings, specification, and requests into product solutions that meet customer and business needs. Understand customer application to establish tests and procedures to qualify our products and optimize our tools, and to proactively identify opportunities to bring value to the customer while driving profitable growth for Regal Rexnord. Act as the subject matter expert in Motors and Drives at customer sites and serve as the main point of contact between our customer’s engineering team and the global engineering team. Support routine product changes, deviations, and sample development. Provide leadership and timely resolution to outstanding customer issues, and support basic product tear‑down analysis of reliability returns for root cause and corrective action development. Lead or support internal qualification efforts on customer‑impacting design changes and transition projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as technical liaison for PES customers; Lead efforts to qualify existing and new motors (ECM & PSC) and other product solutions into their applications.
• Understand customer applications to establish tests and procedures to qualify our Motors & Drives products and optimize our tools.
• Act as main point of contact between customer engineering team and our global engineering team.
• Support routine product changes, deviations, and sample development.
• Act as a subject matter expert in motor technology at customer site.
• Provide solutions to our customers for their applications.
• Conduct evaluations of customer applications and proactively look for opportunities to bring value to the customer while driving profitable growth for Regal Rexnord.
• Conduct competitive analysis on motors from other manufacturers.
• Strengthen relationship with customers by timely resolution of outstanding issues.
• Help engineering team flow down customer key requirements to internal product design requirements.
• Lead or support internal qualification efforts on customer‑focused design changes and transition projects.
• Support basic product tear‑down analysis of reliability returns for root cause and corrective action.
• Support DCX (digital customer experience).

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related experience.
• 3‑5 years of experience in HVAC, commercial appliance, commercial refrigeration, or electric motor industry.
• Demonstrated organizational skills with emphasis on documentation.
• Ability to gather requirements, write specifications, test plans, and application notes.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Strong relationship and team‑building skills; including conflict resolution.
• Individual must be proactive, high energy, and have strong problem‑solving skills.
• Strong time‑management skills.
• Willingness and ability to learn, help, create, and adapt to new technologies.
• Aptitude for troubleshooting computer hardware and software program issues.
• Ability to travel and work at a customer site for an extended period of time.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of experience in HVAC, commercial appliance, commercial refrigeration, or electric motor industry.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to interpret electronics and schematics, bill of materials, and engineering drawings.
• Six Sigma trained, experience with statistical analysis, Greenbelt certified.
• Design experience with ECM and/or PSC motors.

Travel: Less than 30%

Languages: English required; Spanish a plus

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affiantive Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email [e-mail]. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e‑mail [e-mail].

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Notification to Agencies

Please note that Regal Rexnord Corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("Regal Rexnord") do not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third‑party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement or similar contract and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, Regal Rexnord will not consider or approve payment to any third‑parties for hires made.