Application Engineer Medium Voltage Drives

Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division; Oak Creek (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(K) plan

Profit sharing

Annual bonus program

Educational assistance up to $10,000 a

Job summary

Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division in the United States seeks an Applications Engineer to join the MV Drives team. You will own MV drive applications, supporting sales, distribution, and customers, while coordinating with engineering and marketing on technical and commercial initiatives.

The role emphasizes application expertise, hands-on problem solving, and collaboration across development, commercial, and training activities to drive growth in the MV Drives segment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 3+ years experience with VFD or similar industrial automation product applications.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple competing priorities and plan, organize, set priorities, and resolve issues to meet customer demand rate.
• Ability to read and comprehend schematics, wiring, and one line diagrams and support and implementation LABVIEW-based products preferred.
• Practical experience working within a product development quality management system.
• Excellent computer skills and proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

• Act as the subject matter expert for all MV Drive applications including trace back analysis using drive software tool.
• Provide remote and local application support for sales, distribution and customers.
• Be knowledgeable of and incorporate relevant industry standards.
• Provide application assistance at the customer’s site when necessary.
• Provide application specific training for customers in conjunction with training.
• Audit and participate in market segment trade shows.
• Review customer specifications and orders to ensure requirements are understood and can be met.
• Coordinate project orders with engineering and provide project management as needed.
• Assist product marketing, engineering, and technical support organizations on various issues.

Skills

VFD applications

Schematics & wiring diagrams

LabVIEW knowledge

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

LabVIEW

Job description

Are you looking for a hands-on Applications role that will provide you with exposure to Applications, Development and Commercial aspects of a rapidly growing business? Does the idea of being part of the fastest growing segment in an organization excite you? Do you want to be a critical part of talented team? If you answered yes to these questions, we may have the perfect role for you!

Yaskawa is currently seeking an Applications Engineer to fill a newly created role within our rapidly growing Medium Voltage Drives business unit. The Applications Engineer is a key role to the commercial and technical success of Yaskawa and touches all aspects of the MV Drives business including commercial specification, customer relationships & training, application support, and a number of other activities in accordance with company-wide strategic goals.

More specifically, the MV Applications Engineer will provide expertise in the following key areas:

Applications

• Act as the subject matter expert for all MV Drive applications including trace back analysis using drive software tool
• Provide remote and local application support for sales, distribution and customers
• Be knowledgeable of and incorporate relevant industry standards
• When necessary, provide application assistance at the customer’s site
• In conjunction with training, provide application specific training for customers
• Audit and participate in market segment trade shows
• Review customer specifications and orders to ensure requirements are understood and can be met
• Coordinate project orders with engineering and provide project management as needed
• Assist product marketing, engineering, and technical support organizations on various issues

Commercial

• Create quotations and work with Director of MV Drives to ensure profitability
• Work with segment/industry manager to help with creating technical marketing material
• Create, schedule, and present sales training material
• Identify & seek out opportunities to increase revenues and/or decrease costs
• Work closely with the MV sales team to help increase sales
• Assist in managing incoming customer orders for the MV Drives group

Development

• Assist in performing QC and other conformance type tests as required
• Assist product marketing, engineering, and technical support organizations on various issues
• Participate in design reviews for valuable feedback on issues and enhancement
• Coordinate with project management between 3rd party service providers and vendors
• Solve problems with highly effective solutions and provide technical guidance to others
• Apply broad knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 3+ yeas experience with VFD or similar industrial automation product applications.
• Ability effectively manage multiple competing priorities as well as the ability to plan, organize, set priorities, and resolve issues expeditiously to meet the customer demand rate.
• Ability to read and comprehend schematics, wiring, and one line diagrams and support and implementation LABVIEW™ based products preferred.
• Practical experience working within a product development quality management system
• Excellent computer skills and proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

We offer the opportunity to experience the excitement, challenge and rewards of working in an entrepreneurial, fast growing, and industry-leading company.

Some key advantages of working at Yaskawa include: career opportunities in diverse areas, a highly competitive benefit package, including a generous 401(K) plan, profit sharing, corporate wide bonus plan and educational assistance program offering up to $10,000 a year for graduate courses. Additional information regarding the benefit package can be found at the following link.

https://www.yaskawa.com/about-us/careers/benefits

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