Careers at Eriez

*All openings are located in Erie, Pennsylvania, unless otherwise noted.

Technical Sales Representative - International Sales

Duties:

1. Work closely with Export Sales Director, International Market Manager, representatives and customers by phone, mail, email and in person to solve application problems and handle inquiries, including formal quotations.
2. Recommend and price the appropriate equipment for the customer’s application. Training is provided for Eriez market categories assigned.
3. Travel with field sales representatives, make sales calls and presentations to secure equipment orders. This portion of the job can be physically demanding, including work in cities with high altitudes above sea level.
4. Work closely with Engineering and R&D personnel to solve application problems.
5. Train customers and sales representatives on pricing and applications for Separation, Metal Detection and Vibratory Systems.
6. Entertain and act as guide during representative and customer visits in Erie, PA, including coordinating lab tests and sales training sessions.
7. Attend industry Trade Shows, in U.S. and abroad
8. Occasionally make start-up and service calls. Technical aptitude may be required.
9. Act as a liaison between customers and reps in the field and various Eriez Headquarters departments.
10. Other duties as assigned by Manager.

Requirements:

1. *Four-year Degree, Bachelor of Science, Arts and/or Sciences, Engineering or equivalent related experience. *Preferred, but will consider those without a degree, depending on experience.
2. 1-4 years sales/marketing experience preferred, preferably industrial equipment in process and packaging industries.
3. Ability to work with people at customer, representative and inside levels with little supervision.
4. Ability to handle details of equipment sales, including commercial and technical issues and work effectively under pressure.
5. Must have valid U.S. passport for international travel or the ability to acquire a U.S. passport within the 1st 6 months of employment. Visas will be required as necessary. Non-U.S. passport holders must have existing authorization to work in the U.S.
6. Some weekends and holiday travel may be required.
7. Must be fluent in Spanish - Reading, Writing and Speaking.

Please submit a cover letter with the following information: 1) Salary requirements 2) Verify that you are legally authorized to work in the United States 3) That you are fluent in both Spanish and English languages (oral, reading and writing). Part of the interview with be conducted in Spanish.

Technical Sales Representative – Metalworking Sales

Duties:

1. Work closely with representatives, distributors and end-users by phone, e-mail, and in person to recommend and price the appropriate equipment for the customer’s application.
2. Act as liaison between customers and field reps and various Eriez home office departments, including Engineering and Technical Center personnel, to solve application problems.
3. Travel with field representatives and distributors, make sales calls, sales presentations and conduct product training, including sales/technical support of Demo Vehicle program.
4. Train distributors and field representatives in applying and selling Eriez’ Metalworking equipment.
5. Participate in trade shows and associations.
6. Process orders within Eriez business systems including required specification sheets and documentation for timely and accurate order fulfillment.
7. Be familiar with the policies, products, pricing, etc. of all Eriez products for the metalworking market.
8. Other duties as assigned by Supervisors.

Requirements:

1. Four-year Degree, Bachelor of Science, Business Management, Engineering or equivalent related experience.
2. Minimum three years industrial sales/marketing experience. Experience with metalworking equipment, material handling and accessories a plus.
3. Ability to work with people at end-user, distributor/dealer, OEM, representative and inside levels with little supervision.
4. Excellent communication skills including verbal, written and formal presentations.
5. Ability to handle details of equipment sales, including cost estimating, commercial and technical issues and work effectively under pressure.
6. Must be willing to travel (approximately 25%) as necessary.
7. Experience with personal computers, word processing and spreadsheet applications.

Digital Signal Process Software Engineer

Duties:

1. Design, write, and debug software for industrial inspection, sorting, and measurement equipment using various platforms such as Windows and other embedded systems.
2. Design, write, and debus software running on a PC to provide various functionalities including ability to communicate to equipment and software to test circuit boards.
3. Understand and design complex algorithms to analyze signals from inspection and other measurement equipment.
4. Control hardware to acquire signals with microsecond resolution and provide reject timing with millisecond resolution.
5. Use version control software and clearly document changes.
6. Manage portions of projects.
7. Evaluate new technologies to help expand and enhance current product offerings.
8. Develop documentation for use by engineering, sales, manufacturing, government, suppliers, and customers.
9. Work with customers to help solve field equipment problems.
10. Provide other similar and related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Requirements:

1. Minimum of Bachelor of Science in Computer, Electrical, or Software Engineering.
2. Experience programming in C, C++, and Visual C++. C# is also desirable.
3. Minimum of 5 years’ experience in designing, troubleshooting, and testing real-time deteterministic programs on a Windows based platform and other embedded platforms.
4. Must be able to learn all and have relevant experience specializing in at least one of the following:
5. Multi-threaded and interrupt driven programs.
6. Digital signal processing techniques.
7. Networking and integrating equipment.
8. Creating intuitive graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on a Windows platform.
9. Proficient using oscilloscopes, volt meters, and other electronic test equipment.
10. Able to read circuit schematics.
11. Capable of taking full responsibility for a product development project from inception to completion.
12. Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) to assist engineering, manufacturing, sales and customers.
13. Willing to travel on occasion.

Looking for these specific skills/experience, if you have experience in any of these areas, please make sure they are all noted on your resume/cover letter:

• Software Defined Radios (SDR)
• Multi-Channel Class-D Networkable Amplifier
• Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) in both MATLAB and C Language for streaming audio with echo tails exceeding one-half second in duration.
• Offset Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (OQPSK) modulator according to IEEE
• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) polar-formatting algorithm and implementation
• Digital Radiography (DR) X-Ray Imaging
• Heterodyned Spatial Quadrature (HSQ) Technique. Applicable to Soar and Radar.
• Clutter Filters to remove the Tissue Clutter and Vessel Wall motion from the received pulse echo signal prior to flow velocity estimation using Exponential Initialized IIR Filtering
• Experience designing multiprocessor digital image
• Medical Imaging, Ultrasound Signal Processing, Ultrasound Physics, Digital Signal Processing, and Statistical Signal Processing

Software Engineer

Duties:

1. Design, write, and debug software for industrial inspection, sorting, and measurement equipment using various platforms such as Windows and other embedded systems.
2. Design, write, and debug software running on a PC to provide various functionalities including ability to communicate to equipment and software to test circuit boards.
3. Collaborate with electrical engineers to plan, design, and develop systems to ensure compatibility and performance of the software and hardware.
4. Use version control software and clearly document changes.
5. Work independently or in a team and report progress to immediate supervisor..
6. Evaluate new technologies to help expand and enhance current product offerings.
7. Develop user documentation for Engineering, Sales, Manufacturing and Customers.
8. Work with customers to solve field equipment problems.
9. Perform other similar and related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Requirements:

1. Minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer, Electrical, or Software Engineering.
2. Minimum 5 years experience programming, developing and debugging software for a Windows PC environment using C# and Visual C++.
3. Minimum 5 years with experience programming, developing and debugging software for real time deterministic systems with an embedded microcontroller using C, C++, and assembler programming languages.
4. Experience with embedded systems using RTOS, and systems with no operating system.
5. Experience with Digital Signal Processing techniques is highly desireable.
6. Experience with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on a Windows platform.
7. Experience with networking and integrating equipment.
8. Experience with peripheral buses I2C, UART, SPI, USB.
9. Posses experience with version control software.
10. Proficient using oscilloscopes, volt meters, and other electronic test equipment.
11. Able to read and understand electrical/electronic circuit schematics.
12. Capable of taking full responsibility for a product development project from inception to completion.
13. Capable of working in a team environment.
14. Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) to assist Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, and Customers.
15. Willing to travel on occasion.

Research and Development Magnet Design Engineer

Duties:

1. Design permanent magnet circuits, electro-magnet circuits, and electro-permanent magnet circuits for magnetic separation equipment, vibratory conveying equipment, and magnamation equipment.
2. Construct 2-d and 3-d magnetic models of new and existing magnet circuits using INFOLYTICA FEA software to evaluate circuit performance (static and dynamic).
3. Evaluate power requirements and thermal effects for static and dynamic operation of magnetic separation equipment due to eddy currents and operating heat losses. 
4. Evaluate and specify permanent magnet materials for magnet circuits
5. Conduct lab tests to verify magnet circuit designs
6. Evaluate magnet vendors and provide test procedures to inspect new magnet materials
7. Work with the Central Test Lab to ensure that magnetic separation tests conducted on lab equipment will simulate actual field operation with thermal losses.   
8. Provide technical support to Engineering, Manufacturing, and Service for new and existing magnetic product lines. 
9. Provide technical assistance to the Sales Department for field application  
10. Perform other duties as specified by immediate supervisor.

Requirements:

1. Possess a strong analytical background with the ability to mathematically model static and dynamic system
2. Possess the knowledge of fundamental principles of electro-magnet design
3. Possess the knowledge of fundamental principles of permanent magnet design
4. Possess the ability to mathematically analyze magnetic circuits using textbook solutions and FEA tools.
5. Possess the “hands-on” skills to set-up and test prototype magnetic circuits
6. Possess experience in designing and manufacturing oil filled, potted, and dry magnet coils, including experience with coil winding processes
7. Possess good communication and technical writing skills
8. Work in a team environment on R&D projects that lead to new and improved product lines
9. Willing to travel up to 10% 

Education:

Position requires a BS or MS in Electrical Engineering with 5 years of experience in magnet circuit design.

If you are interested in one of our open positions, please send your cover letter and resume to hr@eriez.com for consideration.