Lead Mechanical Engineer - Research & Development Engineering

What you’ll do:

As a mechanical engineer, you will collaborate with a dynamic and diverse cross-functional group of engineers to drive innovation in mechanical systems and subsystems for both low voltage and medium voltage AC & DC applications. Your responsibilities will include designing mechanical systems and subsystems, participating actively in prototyping and testing, and ensuring product reliability and safety.

The position interfaces with product line marketing and plant manufacturing teams, quality personnel, and customers. The position entails coordinating and executing new product development and innovation projects of all sizes from inception through validation and production implementation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

• Develop strong technical knowledge in power electronic based circuit breaker mechanical design, testing and applications.
• Efficiently design, build, test, evaluate, and iterate prototyped mechanical systems and electro-mechanical circuit protection devices in relevant lab environments.
• Understand and comply with site specific electrical test lab equipment and procedures, including health, safety and security aspects.
• Efficiently drive product design from concept to “Minimum Viable Product” that can be lab validated and demonstrated to customers.
• Utilize statistical quality tools to establish performance baselines, identify focus areas for robustness improvement and measure improvement in robustness and performance.
• Leverage and drive component & system level modeling / simulation activities and initiate changes into existing and new component design.
• Compile, study, reconcile and approve product requirements and standards, and lead team-based product conceptual and detailed design, development, validation and documentation. 
• Follow Prelaunch and PROLaunch phase-gate new product development processes.
• Develop product technical requirements by working together with marketing and application teams.
• Generate and execute test programs and test protocols to determine if design criteria for system, software and hardware are met
• Collaborate with teams from Eaton Research Lab, Eaton’s Center of Excellence, and external technology resources (National Labs and Universities) for technology and product innovation.
• Create technical reports and presentations.
• Generate value added intellectual property.
• Mentor, assign tasks and determine priority for project team members as needed.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a relevant engineering field from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in new product design, development, testing and optimization
• Strong experience with Pro-E/Creo or Solid Works

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of switching mechanism design, thermal management and magnetics optimization
• Experience in utilizing test equipment such as oscilloscopes, DC/AC power supply, capacitor bank test systems, and high-speed video cameras
• Experience with DFSS tools
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in magnetic actuation development, design, prototyping, and testing
• General knowledge of industrial circuit breaker design, requirements, and applications
• Demonstrated knowledge of engineering processes
• Creative individual with patents and patent applications on solid state and hybrid circuit breakers
• Experience working in diverse cultural situations with global customers and team members

Skills:

Professional:

• Self-motivated and goal-oriented individual
• Collaborative orientation, the ability to succeed in a highly team oriented, global, and diverse environment
• Consistently acts in an ethical, open, honest, trustworthy and truthful manner
• Occasional domestic and international travel required as needed
• Demonstrate problem solving capability
• Ability to learn new skills, knowledge, industry, or products