PLS - Sr Engineer

Eaton Corporation•Arecibo, PR

6h•Onsite

About The Position

Eaton’s ES AMER PCS division is currently seeking a PLS - Sr Engineer. This role serves as the senior Product Line Support Engineer for Eaton's Industrial Circuit Breaker product portfolio, acting as an extension of the Technical Center organization and providing overall technical leadership for product design, performance, qualification, compliance, and lifecycle management. The position is responsible for ensuring products consistently meet customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and business objectives while supporting the operational and strategic needs of the manufacturing facility. The Senior Engineer provides technical expertise, coaching, and leadership to manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and cross-functional teams to drive product excellence and operational performance. The role leads sustaining engineering activities across the assigned product portfolio, serving as the primary technical authority for manufacturing operations, including assembly and feeder processes. Responsibilities include driving the resolution of product quality, yield, and performance issues through structured root cause analysis and corrective implementation; and validating product design, deviations, and manufacturing changes to ensure compliance with applicable standards and specifications. Additionally, the Senior Engineer supports Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) initiatives to achieve cost reduction objectives, collaborates on product qualification and regulatory compliance activities, and works closely with Technical Center engineering teams, Product Line Marketing, manufacturing operations, quality organizations, suppliers, and customers to support the long-term success and competitiveness of the product portfolio.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronic or others) from an accredited institution
3 years of experience working in electromechanical component or systems design
Bilingual with fluency in Spanish and English
Must be authorized to work in USA

Nice To Haves

Experience with Six-Sigma quality tools
General knowledge of product design for cost-effective manufacture
Working knowledge of regulatory standards
Experience with engineering computer applications. Pro/Engineer, Solid Works or similar, Excel, and computer-based simulation modeling (static stress, thermal, kinematics/dynamics, tolerances, etc.)

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior Product Line Support Engineer for Eaton's Industrial Circuit Breaker product portfolio, acting as an extension of the Technical Center organization and providing overall technical leadership for product design, performance, qualification, compliance, and lifecycle management.
Ensure products consistently meet customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and business objectives while supporting the operational and strategic needs of the manufacturing facility.
Provide technical expertise, coaching, and leadership to manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and cross-functional teams to drive product excellence and operational performance.
Lead sustaining engineering activities across the assigned product portfolio, serving as the primary technical authority for manufacturing operations, including assembly and feeder processes.
Drive the resolution of product quality, yield, and performance issues through structured root cause analysis and corrective implementation.
Validate product design, deviations, and manufacturing changes to ensure compliance with applicable standards and specifications.
Support Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) initiatives to achieve cost reduction objectives.
Collaborate on product qualification and regulatory compliance activities.
Work closely with Technical Center engineering teams, Product Line Marketing, manufacturing operations, quality organizations, suppliers, and customers to support the long-term success and competitiveness of the product portfolio.
Understand product requirements, applications & governing standards (UL, CSA), test procedures, and circuit breaker technology & design intent.
Support documentation development such as manufacturing instruction and visual aids to support the requirements.
Assist with resolution of manufacturing and or production issues relating to product function to maintain compliance with requirements, standards, and specifications.
Act as a liaison between Technical Center Team and Feeders Plants in handling product performance non-conformances to identify root cause corrections.
Evaluate materials, processes and as needed initiate engineering change requests to correct, enhance, update, and improve engineering documentation to satisfy customers and manufacturers of the product.
Evaluate and analyze parts, material, supplier and product design deviations and changes; approve or reject them according to performance requirements.
Support manufacturing functions to ensure part manufacture leads to proper product design performance.
Coordinate with TC Engineers and manufacturing engineers to determine opportunities for product yield improvements and cost savings.
Collaborate with Quality to provide product improvements and feedback to customer complaints.
Utilize statistical quality tools when required to analyze data to evaluate and improve designs.
Support manufacturing to ensure efficient production methods and tools are utilized effectively.
Support new product or product extension launches as liaison to manufacturing facility.
Actively participate and support on LEAN and EQMS initiatives.
Comply with approved policies and processes and perform other administrative tasks as assigned.