Senior Motor & Drive Applications Specialist

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🔔 Pennsylvania, South Carolina, +1 more states – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $110k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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ESR Motor Systems, LLC

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1973

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

🔧 Hardware

B2B • eCommerce • Hardware

ESR Motor Systems, LLC is a distributor and online retailer of industrial electric motors, drives, control equipment, and related parts and accessories. Its website catalog lists a wide range of products — general-purpose, pump, severe-duty, explosion-proof, and medium-voltage motors; variable frequency drives (VFDs); soft starters; control parts; and motor repair/modification parts — and features major brand offerings (e. g. , Toshiba, ABB, Siemens, WEG). The company supports B2B purchasing with warehouses, request-a-quote services, technical resources (document library, charts & formulas), and customer account features for order history and pricing. The site content and notices (supplier price changes) indicate it operates as a commercial motor & drive supplier focused on industrial customers.

📋 Description

• Manage complex quotations for large and medium-voltage motors, drives, and major projects from initial RFQ through order handoff. • Support inside and outside sales teams with motor selection, application questions, specifications, and technical problem-solving. • Review RFQs, specifications, bid packages, drawings, nameplates, and existing equipment information to determine appropriate solutions. • Select replacements for obsolete motors and equipment, including frame upgrades, dimensional evaluations, and manufacturer substitutions. • Cross-reference products between manufacturers and identify technically appropriate alternatives. • Evaluate horsepower, speed, voltage, frequency, enclosure and cooling method, bearings, thrust, service factor, starting requirements, hazardous locations, mounting, and other application considerations. • Specify accessories and instrumentation including space heaters, RTDs, vibration sensors, bearing temperature devices, and related options. • Support medium-voltage motor opportunities and provide drive application support. • Work directly with manufacturers to obtain selections, pricing, drawings, lead times, and technical clarification. • Identify specification exceptions, deviations, alternatives, and potential application issues before proposals are submitted. • Develop polished, professional quote packages presenting the proposed solution, scope of supply, technical data, drawings, options, exceptions, and supporting information. • Manage quotation revisions and technical clarifications as projects develop. • Work directly with customers when technical involvement can help define an application or advance an opportunity.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of electric motor, drive, or closely related industry experience preferred; strong candidates with 5+ years will be considered. • Strong working knowledge of industrial electric motors and motor applications. • Medium-voltage motor and/or medium-voltage drive experience strongly preferred. • Experience with large motors, obsolete equipment replacements, frame conversions, and manufacturer cross-referencing. • Strong knowledge of motor enclosures and cooling methods including TEFC, WPI, WPII, TEAAC, TEWAC, and similar designs. • Familiarity with hazardous-location requirements, bearings, thrust applications, starting considerations, motor accessories, and instrumentation. • Ability to interpret motor nameplates, dimensional drawings, specifications, bid documents, and other technical information. • Experience reviewing and responding to complex commercial and technical bid packages. • Ability to independently evaluate a complex RFQ, determine what should be offered, and develop a technically complete proposal. • Ability to organize complex technical and commercial information into a clear, polished, customer-ready quotation package. • Excellent communication, follow-up, organization, and attention to detail. • VFD application experience is highly desirable. • Comfortable working with CRM, ERP, Microsoft Office, email, and other sales technology. • An engineering degree is not required; industry experience, technical judgment, and the ability to solve real-world motor and drive applications are valued.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Company-Paid and Voluntary Life Insurance • Paid Vacation, Sick Time & Holidays