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Immediate Job Openings at Applied Motion Products

Current Open Positions:

HR Generalist
Vice President of Product Management
Warehouse Associate

To apply for a position, please send your resume and application to [email protected]

About Applied Motion Products

NOTE: Applied Motion Products will be moving its headquarters to Morgan Hill, California in June, 2021.

We are part of a billion-dollar global company focused on automation. We have a joint venture with Moons’ in Shanghai China that incorporates organizations in Germany, Romania, and Switzerland. The Moons’ organization has 750,000 square feet of facility space with 1.2M square feet to be added in 2021, over 4000 employees. Total annual production of 20 million motors and over 500,000 motor drives.

Our goal is leadership in automation products through exceptional customer focus, innovation, and continuous improvement. Our employees are committed to accountability, leadership, and teamwork.

HR Generalist
Directly Reports to CEO of Applied Motion Products, Inc.

Key responsibilities
Coordinating, managing, and/or operating all administrative activities for Applied Motion Products located in Morgan Hill, California. Duties include ensure that our human resources programs and initiatives are effective, efficient, and aligned to overall business objectives; Developing recruitment strategies, implementing systems for managing staff benefits, payroll and behavior and onboarding new employees; Dealing with employee grievances and disputes, supporting employee development, enhancing job satisfaction, designing onboarding procedures, implementing HR strategies that support business objectives, forecasting staffing needs, mitigating risk, structuring benefit packages, maintaining employee records, managing budgets, designing accountability mechanisms, and overseeing overall employment needs.

Specific Duties Include:

  • Directs the functional areas, through supervising manager/directors including but not limited to retention, personnel records, employee relations, job evaluation, compensation management, benefits administration, organizational development, workers compensation, safety, training, EEO and special projects.
  • Responsible for maintaining a highly engaging culture, motivating employees, fostering an environment with high levels of teamwork, accountability, communication, and vision to employees.
  • Developing and implementing human resources policies and procedures. Develops organizational strategies by identifying and researching human resource issues; contributes information, analysis, and recommendations to organization’s strategic direction.
  • Administers various human resource plans and procedures for all company personnel including update and maintain employee handbook; assists in the development and implementation of company policies and procedures.
  • Identifying staffing needs and creating job descriptions. Manage the staffing process, including recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
  • Ensure job descriptions are up to date and compliant with all local, state, and federal regulations.
  • Managing staff wellness and performance reviews.
  • Motivating and supporting current staff.
  • Maintaining staff records including, but not limited, PTO, absent, family leave.
  • Handling employee benefits including, but not limited, managing payroll pay services, medical/workmen’s comp insurances and 401K and/or IRA program.
  • Develop training materials and performance management programs to help ensure employees understand their job responsibilities.
  • Create a compensation strategy for all employees based on market research and pay surveys; keeps the strategy up to date.
  • Investigate employee issues and conflicts and brings them to resolution.
  • Ensure the organization’s compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.
  • Other duties as assigned.


Skills and Qualifications:

  • A bachelor’s degree in human resources, labor relations, organizational development, business, or related area; relevant work experience may be a substitute.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.
  • Experience with the human resources information systems (HRIS) .
  • Knowledge of a broad range of human resource strategies and practices, including compensation, performance management, safety, hiring and employee relations; able to apply these strategies and practices in compliance with employment regulations.
  • Ability to create a culture of diversity, inclusivity, collaboration, and teamwork.
  • Experience with analyzing data to guide strategic employment planning.


Other:
Job location will be Morgan Hill California.
This is a full-time job.

To apply for this position send your resume to [email protected].


Vice President of Product Management

Summary of Position
Drive extraordinary revenue growth through the development and introduction of new products.

Reports to: CEO

Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt

Department: Administration

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Develop business cases to drive new product introductions that enable profitable revenue growth.
  • Work with leading OEM customers in our target industry segments to identify new product opportunities and requirements and translate into the development of high value solutions.
  • Identify opportunities to customize our products and provide unique high value solutions to leading OEM customers.
  • Lead the marketing efforts to promote new products to drive sales leads and revenue growth.
  • Work Experience:

  • Must have extensive experience in the motion control industry with a track record of new product introduction followed by outstanding business results.
  • Thorough knowledge of the application of step motors, servomotors, brushless motors, networked programmable drives, including relevant technical trends.
  • Experience providing motion control solutions in a variety of target industry segment such as Semiconductor, Packaging, Logistics, Medical Devices, Automated Guided Vehicles and Energy.
  • Technical Skills:

  • A practical understanding of motors and drives and their application to automated machinery.
  • Listen to customer needs and thoroughly document requirements.
  • Identify innovative value-added ways to meet customer requirements.
  • Drive the integration of all resources (motors, drives, gear, linear actuators, software, and firmware) within our global capabilities to develop to add commercially successful products to our portfolio.
  • Ability to put together the product introduction business case and follow through to deliver results.
  • Project management skills: Monitor new product development and take action to maintain schedule and avoid delays. Elevate issues as required.
  • Qualifications (Education, Degrees, Certifications):

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical Engineering with a concentration of courses in motion control and mechatronics or combined with post graduate work in mechatronics.
  • Other Requirements:

  • The position is located at Applied Motion Products headquarters in Morgan Hill, California.
  • Travel to customer sites and our factory locations as required.
  • To apply for this position send your resume to [email protected].


    Warehouse Associate

    Reports to: Director of Customer service and planning

    Exempt/Non-Exempt : Non-Exempt

    Department : Operations

    To apply for this position send your resume to [email protected].

    Summary of Position:

  • Handles all aspects of shipping and receiving materials at our warehouse.
  • This includes material handling, verification and documentation of all material that enters and leaves our warehouse.
  • Primary Responsibilities:

  • Receives, records and verifies incoming materials against approved purchase orders and RMA's.
  • Distributes materials to proper department.
  • Pull, packs, verifies, and records all outgoing shipments.
  • Take inventory, move product, building maintenance and other miscellaneous tasks as required.
  • Work Experience:

  • Two years in a warehouse environment performing the requirements of this position.
  • Technical Skills:

  • SAP and basic computer skills
  • Qualifications (Education, Degrees, Certifications):

  • High school diploma.
  • Safety training on forklift and other lifts
  • Other Requirements:

  • Ability to lift 50-60 pounds.
  • Frequent climbing, lifting, bending, pulling/pushing.
  • Some small assembly.
  • This job position is based at our head quarter location in Morgan Hill, California.

    To apply for a position, please send your resume and application to [email protected]

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