What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Engineer Medium Voltage Drives position at Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division?
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
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
EEO/MF/Disabled/Vet
If the Medium Voltage Applications Engineer sounds like a fit for your background and career goals, we would love to hear from 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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
EEO/MF/Disabled/Vet
If the Medium Voltage Applications Engineer sounds like a fit for your background and career goals, we would love to hear from you!
Salary : $10,000