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Regal Rexnord

Motor Assembler I

Regal Rexnord, Radford, Virginia, United States, 24141

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Summary The Motor Assembler is responsible for one or more of the following duties in the assembly of motors.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Motor Assembler: Assemble all types of motors by reading and interpreting specification sheets, assembly drawings, outline drawings, and hook‑up drawings. Perform small precision assembly and assembly of large units as required. Fabricate or form parts, coils, or structures according to specifications, using drills, calipers, cutters, or saws. Mark serial identification and maintain traceability records. Use bill of material to pull correct parts for the assembly process.

Motor Tester: Perform all required mechanical and electrical tests per IM, Test Procedure, and Motor Test Procedure. Abide by all safety regulations in testing procedures. Operate all test equipment including Goldline auto tester, MATS test station, and back drive station. Complete proper Quality Systems Procedure test data sheet. Ensure motors meet all test requirements.

Spray Painter: Clean parts to be painted such as motor assemblies, generators, housings, end bells, and related items to ensure they are free of dirt, grease, oil, and film. Mask all areas to be left unpainted using correct procedures (e.g., masking tape, masking plugs, or shield masking). Mix epoxy, lacquer, enamel using proper thinners and reducers. Use correct mist spray for proper coverage and minimum overspray. Be familiar with degreasing and cleaning procedures that may or may not require painting, such as re‑work or customer‑returned parts. Change filters in spray booths as required to control emission of overspray. Maintain current paint inventory.

Winder: Gather correct wire per winding data sheet. Maintain wire, Lam, and insulator inventory using Kanban. Insulate lamination stack, load parts, and run corresponding programs in winding machine. Unload parts and perform resistance tests and other specified tests to determine if armature is ready for next process. May perform fixture changes and/or adjustments to machine parameters such as speed and wire tension if required per job instructions. May also perform other armature manufacturing processes such as crimping, soldering, varnishing, pressing as required. Runs machine wind in a high volume/low mix products.

Machine Winder: Gather correct wire per winding data sheet. Set‑up winding machine to perform the winding of stator. Perform resistance test to determine if stator is ready for connection. For Brushless units, units may be machine or hand wound. May also perform a crimping operation, sensor setting, sensor assembly, varnishing, polishing, coating, press, and armature inspection. Various types of stators, such as Goldline and XT, will be wound. Maintain wire and/or Lam inventory using Kanban.

Encapsulation: Duties include one or more of the following areas: skewing and motor encapsulation; varnish (dip and bake); sub‑assembly of motor components, patch, press windings, pre‑test armatures, and cleaning after encapsulation and varnish. These operations will be performed per established procedures and router instructions.

Rotor Assembler: Assemble all rotors by reading and interpreting blueprints and checking dimensions with appropriate measuring tooling. Fabricate or form parts, coils, or structures according to specifications, using drills, calipers, cutters, or saws. Pull correct parts and maintain control of inventory. Includes turning and balancing.

Core Processing: Duties include bonding and stacking laminations, sandblasting and deburring cores, fluid‑bed coating, and spray painting of cores. Prepare and use drawings, shop travelers, calipers, micrometers, gauges, fixtures, paint booths, sandblasters, files, sanders, ovens, and buffers. Must have training for packing RCRA hazardous waste in DOT‑approved containers prior to shipment and OSHA/EPA/DOT training regarding the hazardous materials building.

Magnet Processing: Perform all necessary operations for the mechanical and electrical strength characteristics of yoke‑ring sub‑assemblies. Operations include cleaning and deburring, bonding, banding, balancing, and spray painting of field assemblies. Use calipers, micrometers, and applicable gauges and fixtures. Perform tasks using pressure washer, vibratory finishing equipment, sandblaster, ovens, clean cabinets, balancers, banding machines, paint booths, spray guns, and various hand tools. Must train in packing RCRA hazardous waste in DOT‑approved containers and OSHA/EPA/DOT hazardous materials training.

Lams and Commutator Bar Processing: Perform operations to complete all laminations, end insulators, and commutator bars beginning with purchased bar blanks or raw material. Responsibilities also include insulation of cores requiring powder‑coating, wave solder, tumble debur, powder‑coating insulation, lamination, and commutator bar inspection.

Undercut/Debur: Perform a variety of hand and machine operations to prepare parts and sub‑assemblies. Work from drawings, operation sheets, and prescribed procedures to deburr by hand using visual aids and prescribed tools. Select and mount fixtures and accessories to small lathes and milling machines to undercut commutator slots after machining.

Commutation Devices: Assemble brush spring segments per drawings and operation sheets. Use micrometer to determine correct width and thickness. Spot‑weld clips to spring; clean and remove burrs. Spot‑weld terminals to spring as required. Solder brush block to clip; clean excess solder. Inspect, sandblast or vapor hone as necessary. Position and solder lead wire to springs for molded rings. Use micrometers, calipers, punch press, forming press, spot‑welding machine, resistance soldering machine, vapor hone machine, soldering irons, microscope, magnifying glass, solder & tweezers. Perform sensor setting, heat treat, inspection of solder joints, deflash operation, and transfer mold.

Working Relationships Coordinate with other associates within cell and supervisor. Some positions include handing off completed work to next cell in assembly process.

Education And Experience Requirements

Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.

Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing and managing files and records.

Good written and verbal communication skills and basic knowledge of arithmetic.

Requires judgment to plan, perform, and make decisions on the sequence of setups, operations, and processes within the limitations of recognized or standard methods.

Self‑motivated and capable of completing tasks without supervision.

Being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.

Physical Demand and Work Environment While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently must stand, walk, and sit. Occasionally the employee must climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage

Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)

Paid Time Off and Holidays

401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions

Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance

Paid Leaves

Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools. The company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture. Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please e‑mail Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com.

Seniority level Entry level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Management and Manufacturing

Industries Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution

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