Sustaining Engineer

Eaton\u2019s Commercial Distribution Products \u0026 Assemblies Division is currently seeking a Sustaining Engineer to join our team! This position is based at our Arden, NC facility. We are offering relocation assistance for candidates who live within the U.S.\n\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is $86000 - $126000 a year.\n\nPlease note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. \n\n## What you\u2019ll do:\n\nIn this role, you are responsible for specialized product engineering capabilities as a key member of the Automatic Transfer Switch Product Line Engineering team. Automatic Transfer Switch products are a crucial part of mission critical power systems such as data centers and hospitals, where outages have severe consequences. This role will have responsibility for assessing, developing, and maintaining common engineering specialization capability to support best in class product improvement design, cost out through design (VAVE), material substitutions, design quality improvements and codes and standards changes. This position implements improvements across diverse Automatic Transfer Switch products to increase manufacturing efficiency, including electrical/mechanical designs, providing support/direction to other Engineers/Designers, and collaboration with supply chain, manufacturing and quality. This role will also lead engineering standards development for repeat Custom Order Engineering (COE) Automatic Transfer Switch designs to reduce variability in manufacturing builds and support VAVE/Cost out activities and design related process improvements.\n\nJob Responsibilities:\n\n * Leads diverse sustaining engineering and VAVE projects across functions in support of the Automatic Transfer Switch Product Line\n * Develops complex electrical and mechanical drawings and bills-of-material based upon established product designs, providing detail to accurately convey the equipment application and integrate into the manufacturing process.\n * Supports day to day manufacturing operations from an ATS engineering PL perspective, including resolving part, component or BOM issues.\n * Designs steel, copper, and various other material components for improved manufacturability utilizing 3D modeling and other advanced engineering methods and tools.\n * Designs wiring and controls including manufacturing labeling and wire harnesses applications as needed.\n * Leads and executes small/large projects to completion within project timelines with little or no supervision. Works to coordinate these projects with manufacturing engineering and assembly teams.\n * Develops, maintains and applies best in class engineering techniques to solve problems and make design recommendations.\n * Leads, identifies, and executes activities required to maintain a successful sustaining engineering function for the Automatic Transfer Switch Product Line.\n\n\n\n## Qualifications:\n\nRequired (Basic) Qualifications: \n\u2022 Bachelor\u2019s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution \n\u2022 Minimum three (3) years of engineering work experience required \n\u2022 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.\n\n \nPreferred Qualifications: \n\u2022 Prior experience in 3D modeling/design for sheet metal, copper, and assemblies required. \n\u2022 Bachelors in Mechanical, Mechatronics from an accredited institution \n\u2022 Four (4) or more years of engineering experience preferred. \n\u2022 Prior experience with electrical distribution equipment preferred. \n\u2022 Prior experience with Automatic Transfer Switch products preferred.\n\n## Skills:\n\n * Fundamentals of Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial Engineering\n * Strong communication skills in English (verbal and written) to communicate information effectively to customers, and technical staff\n * Computer Literacy\n\n\n\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant\u0027s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\n\n \n\nEaton considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with local laws. To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.\n\n \n\nWe know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. \n