Engineering Manager

What you’ll do

The product design engineering manager leads a team of product design engineers responsible for internal research and development, new product development (NPD/NPI), sustaining engineering for ongoing production, manufacturing sourcing changes, cost‑out projects, and new business campaigns. He or she is responsible for managing project engineering work from initial scoping through execution and eventual project closure, providing communication on this work to internal and external stakeholders.

He or she helps coordinate all work within the scope of assigned projects, managing engineering scope change, risks, and issues working alongside program managers. This role is responsible for functional management activities including hiring, performance management, and talent development. The engineering manager will be responsible for mechanical hold‑down/release mechanism devices for aviation, military, and space applications, as well as support plant sustaining engineering for electrical connector product lines.

• Leads teams supporting current design and development or on legacy/sustaining product support for hold‑down and release mechanism products and related components used in aviation, space, industrial, and military applications.
• Leads engineers assigned to global, cross‑functional teams and multiple manufacturing locations to support ongoing production, new product launches, and product manufacturing transfers/sourcing, including locations in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
• Manages teams responsible for, or directly leads, communication with customer engineering teams.
• Manages teams responsible for product design and documentation captured through Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), leveraging Eaton’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system.
• Manages teams that provide, or directly leads, technical reviews with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manages teams that provide, or directly provide, technical support to customers, suppliers, internal manufacturing engineers, and internal sales and marketing teams, including responsibilities for new and existing projects, assessing non‑recurring cost estimates (NRE), managing project scope changes, developing engineering‑specific activity schedules, developing engineering standards, and reviewing/approving technical documents/deliverables.
• Leads teams responsible for the planning and specification of new product requirements, and detailed validation and verification plans working alongside a cross‑functional team.
• Leads teams responsible for witnessing testing of products and managing test program communication within and external to the enterprise.
• Leads Eaton’s prototype and tooling manufacturing lab, ensuring on‑time delivery and quality of deliverables.
• Leads teams responsible for failure analysis including 8D (8‑discipline problem solving) and provides guidance on root cause and corrective action (RCCA) activities.
• Leads teams responsible for MRB review of discrepant hardware and assessment of functionality where appropriate/delegated by customers.
• Leads teams, and sets standards for, creation and management of product data in Eaton’s PLM (Enovia).
• Responsible for supporting the assessment of jurisdiction and classification of hardware and technical data in accordance with the ITAR and EAR.
• Responsible for talent management for his or her team including promotions, performance management, hiring, and coaching.
• Supports ongoing sustaining engineering for electrical connector products where/when required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or a similar engineering field from an ABET‑accredited institution.
• Minimum 7 years of product engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years of engineering management experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge/proficiency in talent management including hiring and development of direct reports.
• Leadership experience including delegation and coaching of direct reports.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship both now and in the future.
• All applicants must be U.S. persons (U.S.…