Application Engineer

Regal Rexnord Corp; Fort Wayne (IN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

HSA/FSAs

Paid Time Off

401(k) Matching

Life & AD&D

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Regal Rexnord Corp in the United States is seeking an Application Engineer for PES Motors & Drives. You will serve as the technical liaison for valued customers, translating drawings and requests into motor and drive solutions while supporting qualification tests and design changes.

The role involves coordinating with global engineering, leading customer-site deployments, evaluating applications, and driving profitable growth.

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 write specifications, test plans, and application notes.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Strong relationship and team-building skills including conflict resolution.
• Proactive, energetic and strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong time management skills.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Aptitude for troubleshooting 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 solutions.
• Understand applications to establish tests and optimize tools.
• Be main contact between customer engineering and global engineering teams.
• Support routine product changes, deviations, and sample development.
• Act as SME in motor technology at customer sites.
• Provide solutions for customer applications.
• Evaluate customer applications and identify value opportunities while driving growth.
• Conduct competitive analysis on motors from other manufacturers.
• Maintain strong customer relationships through timely issue resolution.
• Assist flow-down of customer requirements to internal design specs.
• Lead or support internal qualification on design changes and transitions.
• Support basic teardown analysis for root-cause and corrective action.
• Support Digital Customer Experience (DCX) initiatives.

Skills

Organizational skills

Documentation

Requirements gathering

Communication

Relationship building

Problem solving

Time management

Learning agility

Troubleshooting hardware

Troubleshooting software

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Application Engineer – PES Motors & Drives

Work model: You will 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.

As the technical liaison for highly valued customers assigned to you, you will translate customer drawings, specifications, and requests into product solutions that meet customer and business needs. You will understand customer applications to establish tests and procedures for qualifying our products, optimizing our tools, and proactively identifying opportunities to bring value to the customer while driving profitable growth for Regal Rexnord. You will act as the subject‑matter expert in motors and drives at customer sites and serve as the main point of contact between our customers' engineering team and the global engineering team. You will support routine product changes, deviations, and sample development, provide leadership and timely resolution to outstanding customer issues, support basic product teardown analysis of reliability returns for root‑cause and corrective action development, and lead or support internal qualification efforts on customer‑impacting design changes and transition projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as technical liaison for PES customers; leading 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
• Acts 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 to 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 teardown 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

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401(k) 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 affirmative 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 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.

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