Sr. Manager Engineering, North America Applications and Systems

Location: Radford, Virginia, USA

About the role

This position manages the Motion Control Systems (MCS) division’s Applications Engineering and Systems Engineering team in North America. Functional reporting is aligned with the product engineering team, with dotted-line reporting to the MCS Global VP Sales, as the role is primarily customer-facing. A qualified candidate should have strong problem-solving abilities and a willingness to work collaboratively in a hands-on, team-oriented environment.

The role combines driving changes aligned with the company’s policy deployment and strategic plan while managing daily support for key customer accounts. Tactically, the Sr. Manager leads technical problem-solving to ensure products meet customer requirements and function as intended, both internally and in customer-facing processes (e.g., commissioning). The position drives efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction by resolving technical queries and supporting sales and customers. Strategically, the Sr. Manager integrates new technologies to foster innovation and customer success, contributes to strategic planning by forecasting future technical needs, and ensures high standards in interoperability and product development to maintain the company’s reputation for quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-sale and post-sale customer engagements.
• Track and maintain data for Policy Deployment Targets and Key Performance Indicators, achieving them through a closed-loop, continuous improvement approach, including:
  • Driving changes through kaizens and process improvement.
  • Developing tools.
  • Building the team to support business growth.
• Establish standard work to create a support structure and interface with other business functions in a standardized way for North America.
• Assist North America Production, Quality, and Engineering teams with defining quality issues and testing new products in development per customer requirements.
• Schedule field service visits for troubleshooting, commissioning, and training.
• Manage the budget of the Applications and Systems Engineering team.
• Travel up to 40% to customer sites.
• Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 10+ years of industrial experience in Industrial Automation in a technical discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of application engineering, systems engineering, or design engineering with heavy customer interface.
• Management or leadership experience.
• Strong structured problem-solving skills.
• Employee performance management practices.
• Detailed orientation and result-driven, self-starting, proactive approach.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Solid understanding of engineering documents (schematics, component data sheets, PCB layout, and product specifications).
• Ability to collaborate with team members.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and effectively present information to inspectors, managers, suppliers, and groups of engineers.
• Understanding of motion control theory.
• Understanding of various fieldbus protocols.
• Experience with multi-meters, oscilloscopes, schematics, and wiring, shielding, and grounding practices.

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 qualify for a license permitting them to hold the position.

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 worldwide, providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit, and control motion. The company’s offerings include electric motors, air moving subsystems, power transmission components, and automation solutions (controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors) for applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools. Regal Rexnord serves end markets such as factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture. The company operates through three segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control, with facilities worldwide.