Molded Magnetics Engineering Manager

If you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team - winning is fun. We are looking forward to Molded Magnetics Engineering Manager in Eaton's Electrical Business. Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to protecting the environment and improving the quality of life for people everywhere. We make products for the data center, utility, industrial, commercial, machine building, residential, aerospace and mobility markets.

What you'll do:

Lead the development and deployment of molded inductor technologies and product platforms with primary responsibility for material formulation, molding process innovation, and product design execution. Direct cross-functional efforts spanning magnetic design, powder materials engineering, process development, reliability qualification, manufacturing transfer, and customer application support to deliver high-performance, cost-competitive products. Drive technology roadmaps focused on advanced magnetic materials, high-current density designs, miniaturization, and manufacturing excellence, ensuring successful product launches and sustained competitive differentiation in data center, AI, automotive, industrial, and other strategic markets.

• Lead the molded inductor product roadmap, driving innovation in magnetic materials, powder formulations, molding processes, and product platforms.
• Manage and mentor the product development team, ensuring successful execution of design, validation, qualification, and product launch activities.
• Provide technical leadership in magnetic, electrical, mechanical, thermal, material, and process design to achieve performance, reliability,manufacturability, and cost targets.
• Drive development of soft magnetic materials, molding technologies, and manufacturing processes to create sustainable competitive advantages.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Suppliers, and Customers to translate market needs into product requirements and development plans.
• Ensure DFM, DFR, DFC, and quality principles are embedded throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Oversee product verification, reliability qualification, regulatory compliance, failure analysis, and corrective actions.
• Support customer design-in activities, application engineering, and technical issue resolution.
• Lead product industrialization, manufacturing transfer, engineering change management, and product lifecycle management.
• Build organizational capability through talent development, technical mentoring, and succession planning.
• Drive continuous improvement, competitive benchmarking, technology scouting, and intellectual property development.

• B.S, or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Material Science/Engineering, Powder Metallurgy, or related field
• Minimum 15 + years of hands-on experience in molded powder inductors
• Magnetic circuit design, electromagnetic theory, power magnetics, core loss, DC bias, saturation, thermal effects, and EMI/EMC.
• Soft magnetic materials, powder formulation, insulation coating, binder systems, and molded magnetic technologies.
• Molded inductor manufacturing processes including powder mixing, molding, curing, plating, process optimization, and scale-up.
• Mechanical, thermal, and reliability design of magnetic components.
• Electromagnetic simulation, prototyping, characterization, and validation methods.
• AEC-Q200 qualification, reliability engineering, failure analysis, FMEA, and root cause investigation.
• Power electronics applications including AI servers, computing, automotive, industrial, and energy systems.
• DFM, DFR, DFC, APQP, PPAP, product lifecycle management, and engineering change control.
• Technical leadership in product industrialization, manufacturing transfer, supplier development, and customer support.
• Technical leadership and people development
• Cross-functional collaboration and influence
• Problem-solving and decision-making
• Project/program execution
• Customer engagement and communication