Bosch Rexroth recently appointed Erwin Wieckowski as vice president and general manager of its linear motion and assembly technologies group. Wieckowski most recently served as the general manager of the automation business unit as well as the national sales and marketing director at Bosch Rexroth.

The new position is based in North Carolina, where Wieckowski will be responsible for aluminum structural framing, ball screws, conveyors and other key product lines. He began his career as a plant engineer, later becoming an application engineer and quality coordinator before turning his attention toward product and sales management roles. Wieckowski has degrees in applied science and management science from the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Canada.