Plant Support Engineer

Eaton's IS VEH EMB division is currently seeking a Plant Support Engineer.

What you'll do:

Eaton's eMobility Division is currently seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join our team. This position is based at our Tijuana, MX location. Eaton's eMobility segment is collaborating with companies around the globe to innovate the transportation technologies of the future, creating efficient vehicles that travel faster, farther, higher and safer at a lower overall cost to the consumer and the environment.

Position Overview:
In this role, the Senior Product Engineer will provide sustaining support for Low Voltage Power Conversion products that include Low Voltage DC-DC Converters and Equalizers, Auxiliary Inverters and embedded electronics power supplies. The Senior Product Engineer will be responsible for product improvements and cost down activities and will also generate concepts, manage the design, development, testing, technical documentation, and launch of new products and extensions/updates to existing product lines. This position is based at our Tijuana, MX plant.

In this function you will:

• Be a key part of the team during new product launches, collaborate with team on end-of-line testing, PPAP and supplier quality
• Lead plant-level current product engineering activities from the manufacturing site to address plant manufacturing issues, and support customer and field issues
• Assist with resolving challenges such as component failure, design issues, test specification clarifications and system test troubleshooting while helping to resolve manufacturing challenges such as line optimization, scrap reduction, and cost efficiency
• Evaluate change impact to current products, offering decisions on updates and work scope
• Collaborate with product development team and plant manufacturing and testing teams to perform design-for-manufacturing, design-for-testing and PCBA and assembly optimization
• Support pre-production (prototype) product building, validation and evaluation
• Conduct testing of product changes and new products in accordance with standards and customer requirements to confirm conformance
• Launch new products following the Eaton PROLaunch stage-gate process.
• Participate in problem solving work leveraging methods like 8D, Fishbone, and 5 Why, RedX, Lean Sigma
• Support team activities that create higher value products, benefiting both Eaton and our customers.