Senior Product Engineer

Location: City of Olean

Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Senior Product Engineer.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $86000 - $126000 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.

What you’ll do:

The Senior Product Engineer plays a critical role in the design, development, and lifecycle management of Eaton's M-Force product line, a family of distribution-class, three-phase overhead load break switches used in medium-voltage electric utility distribution systems.

This highly visible position is responsible for driving new product development, engineering-to-order solutions, continuous product improvement, cost competitiveness, and ensuring compliance with customer, industry, and regulatory  addition, this role supports the design and development of medium- and high-voltage surge arresters, working with a wide range of technologies including ceramic MOV varistor disks, polymers, rubber moldings, castings, and metal fabrications. The position emphasizes mechanical product design, testing, validation, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver innovative, reliable, and manufacturable solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design, development, validation, and continuous improvement of the M-Force medium-voltage distribution switch product line.
• Lead small projects and coordinate the project management competencies for the plant.
• Develop Engineering-to-Order (ETO) solutions that address unique customer requirements while maintaining quality, performance, and cost objectives.
• Serve as a key technical resource for new product development, Pro Launch, and Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives, ensuring project milestones and program objectives are achieved.
• Develop expertise in new engineering tools, technologies, and processes to drive innovation and efficiency.
• Provide timely technical reports, project updates, and recommendations to management and key stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by challenging existing processes and identifying opportunities to enhance products, services, and operational performance.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, suppliers, customers, and testing laboratories to achieve business and engineering objectives.
• Travel up to 10% for customer visits, supplier engagements, and testing activities.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of three (3) years of engineering 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum five (5) years of engineering experience.
• Experience in new product design of medium or high voltage electrical products
• Experience working with load break switches and/or arresters.
• Six-sigma trained to support design for manufacturing.
• Microsoft Word, Excel, Share Point, One Note
• Experience with electrical field modeling is desired
• Extensive experience in EC/ECR/ECN processes.
• PMP Certification or experience leading engineering and/or manufacturing projects.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills.#LI-ML1

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