Field Application Engineer

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This position reports to:

Region Field Application Engineer Leader__The successful candidate will operate as the Field Application Engineer (FAE) for the Electrification business of ABB within the Los Angeles area. In this role, you will be the technical lead at consulting engineer, end user, EPC and design build customers, ensuring ABB products and solutions achieve a preferred/ acceptable manufacturer status in project specifications.

You will work closely with the local sales team, and must be proficient applying MV/LV switch gear, switchboards, panel boards, transformers and arc flash mitigation technologies. This support will extend to markets such as healthcare, data center, industrial, utility and commercial construction.

The work model for the role is:
Remote - #LI-remote in the Los Angeles area;
Must be willing to travel to visit customers in local area regularly.

More about usABB Smart Buildings enables optimization of energy efficiency, safety, security and comfort for any building type, through new installations or retrofit solutions. The Division offers integrated digital technologies to control HVAC, lighting, shutters, and security, in addition to energy distribution solutions including DIN rail products, enclosures and emergency lighting through to industrial plugs and sockets and conventional wiring accessories, accommodating for single family homes, multiple dwellings, commercial buildings, infrastructure and industrial applications.

The Division’s highly innovative technologies and digital solutions serve rising global demand among real estate developers, owners, and investors for smart building technologies that optimize energy distribution and building automation. The scalable solutions aim to deliver significant sustainable and financial benefits, meeting social and environmental demands, while being able to address even the most complex of customers’ carbon reduction strategies.

Your role and responsibilities:

Collaborate with consultant, end user, utility and EPC/DBC engineers to define electrical project needs, supply design assistance, product selection, value engineering, budgeting & provide education on ABB solutions to gain acceptance of the same into project  the local product expert in the following products and applications: MV/ LV switch gear, switchboards, panel boards, transformers, motor control, power monitoring, power/insulated case/ molded case circuit breakers.

Have working knowledge of short circuit, coordination and arc flash mitigation concepts and the ability to illustrate their benefit via tools such as SKM or Easy Power.

Customer education - be a strong public speaker; comfortable developing and articulating complex technical concepts to engineers, contractors and users as well as thought leadership - participate and actively engage in the development of papers for IEEE and other industry events/ conferences to raise awareness of ABB solutions.

Bring voice of the customer on new product opportunities, product gaps and market trends to commercial and product management leadership for action.

Qualifications for the role:

B.S. degree in engineering; preferably electrical with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in the electrical distribution industry or a master’s degree in engineering with 4+ years of experience in the same; PE certification is preferred.

Knowledge of industry codes and standards; ANSI, IEEE, NEC, NEMA, NFPA 70E, UL.Previous field, plant or design engineering in electrical power systems at major oil and gas…