Engineering Leader - New Product Development, Research & Development Engineering

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Director Engineering for the Power Distribution and Assemblies Division (PDCA) business, this person will be responsible for new product engineering delivery across the entire PDCA portfolio: Medium Voltage Assemblies (MVA), Low Voltage Assemblies (LVA), Medium Voltage Control Assemblies (MVCA) and Motor Control Centers (MCC).  The PDCA business is a $2 billion, 3,500 employee business across North America, with 8 manufacturing locations.

The Engineering Leader will direct the product-line NPD teams in the US, Mexico and the NPD organization at the Pune India Innovation Center; turning Product Management's roadmaps and business cases into launched, certified and manufacturable products.

Essential Functions:
•    Set the multi-year NPD engineering strategy for the PDCA portfolio in line with the division growth plan and the Director of Engineering's priorities.
•    Own the integrated NPD portfolio view across all four product lines, balancing growth programs, technology development and capacity so the highest-value work is staffed first.
•    Serve as engineering owner for PROLaunch stage-gate execution on growth business-opportunity cases, ensuring gate deliverables, technical readiness and risk closure at every gate.
•    Lead technology exploration and PreLaunch activities, including NTI, to de-risk new technologies before they enter a committed launch schedule.
•    Establish clear entry and exit criteria between technology development and product development so programs launch on mature, proven technology.
•    Standardize NPD processes, tools and technical standards
•    Define and deploy common design processes, design review practices and design-to-cost methods across all PDCA NPD teams and sites.
•    Build and maintain the NPD resource and capacity plan across U.S., Mexico and India sites
•    Partner with Systems Engineering so NPD programs follow agreed product architectures, requirements management and configuration governance.
•    Own the NPD portion of the R&D budget, driving cost discipline and productive use of engineering spend.
•    Coach and develop NPD managers and engineers and build succession plans for key NPD leadership and technical roles across all sites.

Required Qualifications:

•    Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading engineering managers or engineering teams.
•    Demonstrated new product development and stage-gate experience in electrical power distribution or control equipment.
•    Experience with medium and low voltage switchgear, switchboards, assemblies or motor control centers is preferred
•    Experience leading teams across multiple sites or locations
•    Legally authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship

Eaton Leadership Attributes:
•    Effectively drives and manages change, challenges the status quo and champions new and innovative ideas.
•    Demonstrates professional presence, communicates articulately and confidently.
•    Effectively leverages functional and cross-functional resources to solve problems, improve processes and meet objectives.
•    Demonstrated written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills. 
•    Demonstrated success in effectively and confidently providing “leadership” to employees in a constantly changing environment.

Education:
•    An undergraduate degree is required.  A Master’s degree is preferred.

Compensation:
•    Eaton recognizes this role as a critical position within the corporation and will create a compelling package consisting of a base salary, employee incentive compensation and complete benefits.

Location:
•    This position can be based in Arden, NC, Fayetteville, NC, Charlotte, NC or Greenwood, SC.