Lead Mechanical Engineer

Eaton is seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer for its Advanced Technology team within the Electrical Sector's "Protection, Control and Solutions" group. This role is based at our Moon Township, PA Eaton facility and offers a hybrid working schedule.

The Lead Mechanical Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and testing power electronic based circuit protection technology and products. This individual will work together with a diverse cross-functional team of engineers to drive the development of the mechanical systems and subsystems for circuit protection products to be used in both low voltage and medium voltage AC & DC applications. This position interfaces with product line marketing and plant manufacturing teams, quality personnel, and customers. The position entails coordinating and executing new product development and innovation projects of all sizes from inception through validation and production implementation.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $93750.03 - $137500.04 a year. Please note the salary information is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you'll do:

• Develop strong technical knowledge in power electronic based circuit breaker mechanical design, testing and applications.
• Efficiently design, build, test, evaluate, and iterate prototyped mechanical systems and electro-mechanical circuit protection devices in relevant lab environments. Understand and comply with site specific electrical test lab equipment and procedures, including health, safety and security aspects.
• Efficiently drive product design from concept to "Minimum Viable Product" that can be lab validated and demonstrated to customers.
• Utilize statistical quality tools to establish performance baselines, identify focus areas for robustness improvement and measure improvement in robustness and performance.
• Leverage and drive component & system level modeling / simulation activities and initiate changes into existing and new component design.
• Compile, study, reconcile and approve product requirements and standards, and lead team-based product conceptual and detailed design, development, validation and documentation.
• Follow Prelaunch and PROLaunch phase-gate new product development processes.
• Develop product technical requirements by working together with marketing and application teams.
• Generate and execute test programs and test protocols to determine if design criteria for system, software and hardware are met.
• Collaborate with teams from Eaton Research Lab, Electrical Sector Center of Excellence, and external technology resources (National Labs and Universities) for technology and product innovation.
• Create technical reports and presentations.
• Generate value added intellectual property.
• Mentor, assign tasks and determine priority for project team members as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or similar from an accredited institution
• Five (5) years of experience working in new product design, development, testing and optimization for a manufacturing organization
• Three (3) years of design experience working with Pro-E/Creo or Solid Works
• 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.
• Candidate must currently reside within a 50-mile radius of the posted working location to be considered. Active-duty Military are exempt from this geographical limitation.

• Two (2) years of hands-on experience in magnetic actuation development, design, prototyping, and testing.
• General knowledge of industrial circuit breaker design, requirements, and applications.
• Strong understanding of switching mechanism design, thermal management and magnetics optimization.
• Experience in utilizing test equipment such as oscilloscopes, DC/AC power supply, capacitor bank test systems, and high-speed video cameras.
• Experience with DFSS tools.

• Self-motivated and goal-oriented individual
• Collaborative orientation, the ability to succeed in a highly team oriented, global, and diverse environment
• Consistently acts in an ethical, open, honest, trustworthy and truthful manner
• Desire for innovation, new product development, and program management
• Experience working in diverse cultural situations with global customers and team members
• Demonstrated knowledge of engineering processes