Senior Engineering Manager - Embedded Systems
About The Position
Eaton’s Protection, Control and Solutions Group (PCS) is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for its Global Embedded Systems Engineering function, supporting the Power Components Division (PCD). The position is based in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The role provides strategic and organizational leadership for engineering managers and senior technical specialists across electronics hardware, firmware, and verification and validation. The successful candidate will set the organization’s vision, strengthen leadership capability, advance technology and product development strategies, and establish the operating discipline needed for consistent execution. This highly visible manager-of-managers role calls for someone who can shape strategy, develop leaders and teams, transform culture, translate business priorities into engineering outcomes, raise performance and accountability standards, and foster an inclusive environment for collaboration, innovation, and delivery. The role requires organizational leadership and sufficient embedded systems expertise to guide decisions and build credibility with technical and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 15 years of engineering experience, including significant experience in embedded systems or embedded product development.
- At least 5 years of engineering leadership experience, including responsibility for leading other people managers and/or senior technical leaders.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.
- Undergraduate degree required.
- Ability to connect market, customer, business, and technology trends to a focused engineering agenda.
- Proven ability to lead through other leaders, develop management capability, and influence senior technical specialists without relying on direct authority.
- Track record of leading cultural and organizational transformation while sustaining engagement and delivery.
- Broad understanding of embedded systems development, including electronics hardware, firmware, systems integration, and verification and validation.
- Experience applying phase-gate product development processes and improving engineering governance, quality, predictability, and speed.
- Experience working with international customers and suppliers, and distributed or offshore engineering teams.
- Demonstrated written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Professional presence and the ability to communicate articulately and confidently.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of industrial controls, protection products, and regulated or safety-critical product environments.
- Experience leading a multidisciplinary embedded systems organization spanning electronics hardware, firmware, and verification and validation.
- Experience developing technical and people leaders in a global, matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale product development programs from concept through industrialization and launch.
- Master’s degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate a clear, multi-year vision and strategy for the embedded systems engineering organization, aligned with PCS business priorities, product roadmaps, and technology needs.
- Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior technical specialists across electronics hardware, firmware, and verification and validation.
- Build a high-performing leadership team by clarifying roles, strengthening succession pipelines, differentiating performance, and providing development opportunities.
- Reshape organizational culture to promote accountability, collaboration, faster learning, technical rigor, and disciplined execution.
- Translate business and customer needs into engineering priorities, capability plans, technology roadmaps, and resource investments.
- Establish an integrated operating model connecting hardware, firmware, and verification and validation throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Improve engineering effectiveness through governance, standard work, metrics, design reviews, risk management, and continuous improvement.
- Provide leadership oversight for new product development and sustaining engineering programs, including PRELaunch / PROLaunch gate reviews, design reviews, and project reviews.
- Partner with Product Management, Program Management, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and other engineering functions to deliver safe, reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.
- Ensure product designs and development practices comply with applicable national and international codes, standards, cybersecurity expectations, and quality requirements.
- Develop organizational capability through workforce planning, talent acquisition, succession planning, coaching, performance management, and recognition.
- Drive and manage change, challenge the status quo, and champion new and innovative ideas.
- Leverage functional and cross-functional resources to solve problems, improve processes, and meet objectives.
- Communicate effectively in writing and verbally, and provide leadership in a constantly changing environment.
Benefits
- Base salary and employee incentive compensation.
- Health and welfare benefits.
- Retirement benefits.
- Programs providing paid and unpaid time away from work.
- Variable incentive program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
