Lead Mechanical Engineer

Overview

Eaton’s AER MSD Mission System Division is currently seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer. This role is based in Davenport, IA. Relocation assistance will be provided within the hiring country.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $93750.03 - $137500.04 a year. Please 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.

Primary Function:

The Air to Air (AAR) Lead Mechanical Engineer is responsible for the creative design and development of Aerial / Air-to-Air refueling products. This position will contribute to the overall design of the product with involvement from project initiation thru manufacturing launch, plus ongoing developments and support. Functional responsibility includes analysis and refinement of product requirements, development of design solutions that meet requirements, testing and certification of the components plus systems as well as product qualification for performance, reliability, DFMA, and cost optimization of the final product.

Design for X (DfX) experience and application in design efforts is an expectation. This position will work closely with the Engineering Manager, Program Manager, Subject Matter Experts, Chief Engineers, other Mechanical Engineers and System Architects, Electrical/Software Engineers, Product Line Manager, and Operations team members, Sourcing and Manufacturing personnel to develop the products in an organized and expedient fashion.

• Provide technical leadership for systems and sub-system developments in compliance with Eaton approved engineering processes, guidelines, and standard operating procedures.
• Experience with application of aerospace design processes and leading technical teams in the delivery of gated-process design reviews.
• Work with product development stakeholders to ensure product meets technical, business, process, and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate and execute product design activities in accordance with project scope, cost, and schedule constraints and understand the business impact of different programmatic solutions and design choices.
• Review project related documentation such as analysis or test results created by peers to ensure their completeness and quality.
• Analyze and document multi-disciplinary requirements including, but not limited to: mechanical, electro-mechanical, software, reliability, maintainability, and safety.
• Technical interface with the external customer including ability to determine customer wants and needs and translate them into verifiable engineering requirements.
• Work directly as technical interface with internal and external customers, suppliers, project engineers, design engineers, test engineers, sustainment engineers, Centers of Excellence, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, program management, and other functions to develop systems and products.
• Performs a primary role in risk & opportunity identification and mitigation/capture on new design and product improvement projects.
• Mentor less experienced engineering resources to improve their product knowledge and general engineering expertise.
• Support site and project planning, rollout, and compliance with Model Based Engineering (MBE) and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) requirements.
• Execute, support, and oversee engineering changes for production, manufacturing, and customer field issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution
• Minimum 5 years of system, product design, development, and/or production design problem resolution experience.
• 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.
• You must be a U.S. citizen to be eligible and considered for this position pursuant to applicable U.S. Federal Government contract requirements.

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