Senior Design Engineer

As a Senior Design Engineer, you will perform product design engineering for Eaton’s Molded Case Circuit Breaker (MCCB) product line. Primary focus is to ensure function, performance margin and design robustness of MCCB products. Responsibilities include new product design and development, validating design concepts, obtaining & maintaining third party certifications, supporting product launch phases, ensuring product functional requirements, supporting resolution of yield and quality issues, performance enhancements on existing products, validating component changes, supporting cost reductions (VA/VE) efforts, addressing application issues, and production line support. The position interfaces with regional and global teams in design, manufacturing, marketing, quality, and customers. The individual will have design responsibility for select projects from inception through validation and into production implementation.

In this role you will:
A.     Lead efforts to compile, study, and reconcile product requirements and standards to design, develop, validate, and document MCCB products.
B.    Identify and prioritize projects to eliminate potential design and performance issues during new product development or enhance existing product performance and margin.
C.    Develop strong technical knowledge in circuit breaker design, testing, application, and applicable governing regulatory standards (UL, CSA, IEC, NEMA, etc.).
D.    Utilize statistical quality tools to establish performance baselines and identify focus areas for product performance enhancements and robustness improvements.
E.    Perform and leverage modelling / simulation activities on component and system level to ensure robust designs and adequate performance margins.  
F.    Learn and integrate Design for Six Sigma, CeTol, GD&T, simulation & modeling software, and phase-gate development processes.
G.    Maintain product listings and quickly address any third party testing non-conformances to minimize financial sales and delivery impact.
H.    Establish control plans, component & process verifications and defining critical-to-quality characteristics.
I.    Engage and collaborate with marketing, industrialization, manufacturing, project management and other key teams to ensure successful product development and launch.
J.    Utilize communication skills to support customer technical questions and provide routine updates to manager, leadership team, and engineering organization on key projects & metric performances.

Basic Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, mechanical preferred, from an accredited institution
•    Minimum 3 years of experience working in mechanical or electromechanical component / product design
•    Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
•    May require up to 10% travel

Preferred Qualifications:
•    Experience with Six-Sigma quality tools and methodology
•    Knowledge of circuit breakers and applicable standards
•    Prior product ownership for cost-effective manufacturing and compliance with regulatory standards
•    Experience with engineering computer applications. Pro/Engineer Creo or similar, Excel, and computer-based simulation modeling (static stress, thermal, kinematics/dynamics, tolerances, etc.)
•    Bilingual with fluency in English and Spanish

Position Criteria:
•    Cross-functional teamwork and written & verbal communication skills. Fundamentals of project management
•    Methodical mechanical problem solver. Fundamentals of electricity
•    Understanding of product requirements and performance margins. System, product & component design
•    Laboratory skills and safe work practices