Eaton's Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Lead Design Engineer - Plastic Molding.
What you'll do:
This position is based at our Juarez facility.
Eaton is connecting many of the products they offer, as well as creating new digital products and services. There is an amazing opportunity to provide significant impact to the organization in the Controls and Protection - Bussmann Division in Ellisville, MO
We are seeking a Lead Design Engineer with a background in electro-mechanical design and plastic molding to join a team that's challenged with changing the way our customers safely interact with and understand their electrical infrastructure. Our goals are to increase safety, minimize power problems, create context for users when problems do occur, and help them save energy. The team focuses heavily on design, prototyping and user testing. The position will require occasional travel.
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In this role, you will:
• Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments.
• Makes decisions independently on engineering problems and methods and represents the organization in meetings to resolve important questions. Supervision and guidance related largely to overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts, and policy matters.
• Requires the use of advanced techniques and the modification and extension of theories, precepts, and practices.
• Routinely plans, develops, coordinates, and directs a large and important engineering project or several small projects with many complex features bringing them to a successful conclusion in a timely fashion.
• Effectively advocate for users in a corporate climate, providing day-to-day design leadership
• Work closely with technicians, designers, engineers, and business professionals to guide products from inception through delivery.
• Work with customers and internal stake holders to understand the product space and design priorities.
• Create and iterate on prototypes at various levels of fidelity.
• Understands customer requirements and market trends to identify new opportunities and develop new product design concepts,
• Provide senior level technical engineering support for products to marketing department, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, design engineering, suppliers (material and tooling), and end customers.
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Qualifications:
Required Competencies:
• Plastic Molding, resins
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of 8 years working as an Electrical/Mechanical Designer, design engineer or similar
• Minimum of 4 years of experience working on new product development
• Strong communication skills
• laboratories procedures,
• Knowledge of electrical circuit protection products, electrical distribution systems, and applicable industry standards is desirable
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to effectively motivate team members that are not direct reports.
• Competency in Enovia, 3D CAD modeling tools (SolidWorks), SAP and Minitab
• Bilingual (English/Spanish).
Preferred Competencies:
• Master's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineer, or physics.
• At least 5 years of experience working as a Design Engineer
• Exposure to working with a cross-functional teams
• Experience and exposure to Design Thinking tools and methodologies
• Experience with Agile development
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.