Engineering Technician III
Nidec · Missouri
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 23 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior manufacturing role at Nidec (industrial) in Missouri. In addition, it also supports activities to maintain a safe and efficient operating environment in the electronic lab.
- They ask for
- 5+ years
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Missouri: typical posted base $89k–$121k.
Median of the low and high ends of 11 live postings that list pay, out of 30 manufacturing engineer openings in Missouri, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 29 other live manufacturing postings in Missouri.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $89k–$121k, from 11 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 57%
- New product launch 47%
- Root cause 43%
- Tooling 37%
- Six Sigma 33%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 30%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Job Summary
Engineering Technician III assists engineering personnel in technical development, evaluation, and testing of new product development of electronic motor controls. This technician sets up and performs electrical, environmental, and agency testing to support engineering and design qualification of electronic motor controls. In addition, it also supports activities to maintain a safe and efficient operating environment in the electronic lab.
The position reports to: Test Engineering Supervisor
Qualifications
- ✓Associate of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology (ASEET) or equivalent experience.
- ✓More than 5 years of experience working with electrical components, schematics and repair techniques .
- ✓3 to 5 years of technician experience in an electrical/electronic lab environment preferred .
- ✓Familiarity with electronic and mechanical components used in electronic assemblies preferred.
- ✓Familiarity with lab equipment like oscilloscopes, power meter, chart recorder, etc. preferred.
- ✓Have soldering skills to solder surface mount and through-hole electronic components preferred .
- ✓Familiarity/experience to safely operate hand tools and power tools preferred.
- ✓Familiarity in design and development of electronics for HVAC or appliance industries preferred.
- ✓Good verbal and written communication skills are required .
- ✓Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- ✓Ability to navigate Microsoft Office applications and learn other computer skills.
Additional Job Details
Work Shift Schedule
No Soliciting
Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.
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Job Description
- •Work assignments with minimum supervision using established procedures and techniques.
- •Prepare test setups, conduct electrical, environmental, agency tests, record data and test results.
- •Modify electrical prototypes, parts, assemblies, or systems to correct functional deviations using engineering drawings, bill of materials and/or inventory management .
- •EV / DV testing for motor controls involves reliability , environmental and EM C tests .
- •Assemble prototypes and samples of electronic motor controls.
- •Ability to effectively use basic electro-mechanical hand tools.
- •Support electronic lab activities including test equipment calibration and maintain lab cleanliness.
- •Purchase electronic and mechanical components for lab inventory Purchase and maintain lab equipment.
- •Support the lab audit team to ensure a safe and efficient lab environment.
- •Coordinate international and domestic shipment of items to customers and suppliers.
- •Strong knowledge of written test procedure , documentation and test setup .