Product Engineer - Sustaining
About The Position
This position is accountable for providing technical leadership and sustaining engineering support across Eaton's portfolio of hazardous and industrial electrical products, including luminaires, power distribution and control systems, enclosures, fittings, cable tray systems, and related components. This role owns product lifecycle management activities and ensures products remain safe, compliant, manufacturable, cost competitive, and aligned with customer and business needs. The Sustaining Engineer independently develops and maintains engineering documentation including CAD models, drawings, technical specifications, bills of material (BOMs), engineering change orders (ECOs), work instructions, and standard operating procedures. The incumbent leads complex engineering investigations, cost reduction initiatives, supplier transitions, product enhancement projects, quality improvements, and regulatory compliance activities while balancing technical, commercial, and operational objectives. The role requires the ability to exercise sound engineering judgment when addressing product and process issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and recommend effective solutions aligned with preferred manufacturing methods and processes. This position requires advanced knowledge of engineering processes, manufacturing techniques, quality systems, and information systems, and operates with broad latitude in decision making and independent execution. Key skills include advanced product design principles, engineered material selection, design to cost analysis, project management, cross functional team collaboration, technical report writing, computer assisted design (CAD), and proficiency with standard PC based spreadsheet and word processing tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of five (5) years of product engineering experience.
- Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.
- Only candidates residing within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, NY will be considered (Active-duty military members are exempt from this geographical limitation).
Nice To Haves
- Electrical products knowledge.
- Knowledge of Manufacturing processes.
- Knowledge of Quality systems.
- Proficiency with Engineering software (Solid Works and AutoCAD preferred).
- Proficiency with Product Data Management systems (preferably SAP, Enovia).
- Project Management experience.
Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership and sustaining engineering support across Eaton's portfolio of hazardous and industrial electrical products.
- Owning product lifecycle management activities.
- Ensuring products remain safe, compliant, manufacturable, cost competitive, and aligned with customer and business needs.
- Developing and maintaining engineering documentation including CAD models, drawings, technical specifications, bills of material (BOMs), engineering change orders (ECOs), work instructions, and standard operating procedures.
- Leading complex engineering investigations, cost reduction initiatives, supplier transitions, product enhancement projects, quality improvements, and regulatory compliance activities.
- Exercising sound engineering judgment when addressing product and process issues.
- Performing root cause analysis (RCA) and recommending effective solutions.
- Balancing technical, commercial, and operational objectives.
Benefits
- Health and Welfare benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
