Steve Hardin, Mba Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Greater Milwaukee Area

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Business Manager for Power Quality Components leading with industry best Mangoldt and Frako products.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• In this role, I help Machine Builder customers differentiate themselves amidst global competition and rapidly evolving technology. I assist customers in developing innovative solutions that increase business agility.
• Easily integrates into facilities
• Provides access to information
• Increases efficiencies, improve productivity, and support compliance
• Enables agile reaction to changing market demands

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Responsible for the development and implementation of sales strategies to maintain and grow the business within the territory. I work to maintain and expand relationships at all levels within Rockwell's channel partner.
• Manage the development of assigned distributors and their performance.
• Analyzes account requirements and develop an account penetration plan with the distributor and account sales engineers to increase market share.
• Resolves channel issues resulting in conflict (i.e. policy violations etc.).
• Measures distributor performance and implement distributor performance improvement programs.
• Facilitates the implementation of new product launches and promotional programs through the direction of all channel team resources, including the distributor’s personnel.

• Minneapolis, MN and Appleton, WI branches.I held a variety of sales positions with increasing responsibility within Rockwell's global sales organization. I worked to maintain and expand customer relationships in a wide.
• Technologies: automation controllers, drives, motion controllers and operator interface at both the machine and enterprise levels
• Segments: HVAC, Packaging, Material Handling, and Process solutions

• Provided technical consulting to Fortune 500 companies throughout North America
• Authored RFP Specifications used by a Fortune 500 company with its equipment suppliers to drive down training, spares and supports costs for their facilities – resulting in over 25% savings

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Created Business Plan to grow the Industrial Computers business by 66% in 5 years
• Helped lead a multi-function team to find and develop a business partnership with a large commercial Taiwanese Computer company
• Helped launched new line of industrial computers

Responsible for project management, design, build and programming of automated test and assembly equipment.

Greater Milwaukee Area

I served as the Project Manager and Electrical Engineer for the design and build of 3 electronic circuit board manufacturing facilities. In this role, I specified and procured the material handling equipment for these fully automated lines (low volume - high mix). I also provided the engineering support for these facilities.

Gary, IN

I served as a Controls Engineer for their Finishing Mills. I led a major project to tear out old switch gear at one of the mills and replace it with modern electrical controls over tighter than normal schedule. I managed the project, provided the electrical design, programmed and supported & trained the operations & maintenance teams.

Portage, MI

I developed packaging and product inspection systems for their manufacturing lines.

Battle Creek, MI

I programmed the machine visualization systems for 3 of their cereal line facilities.

Battle Creek, MI

I served as a Project Engineer and completed 24 plant facility projects.

Mba, Project Management

Bs, Electrical Engineering