Sustaining Engineer

Eaton Corporation • Asheville, NC

18h • $86,000 - $126,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Eaton’s Commercial Distribution Products & Assemblies Division is currently seeking a Sustaining Engineer to join our team! This position is based at our Arden, NC facility. We are offering relocation assistance for candidates who live within the U.S.
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:
In this role, you are responsible for specialized product engineering capabilities as a key member of the Automatic Transfer Switch Product Line Engineering team. Automatic Transfer Switch products are a crucial part of mission critical power systems such as data centers and hospitals, where outages have severe consequences. This role will have responsibility for assessing, developing, and maintaining common engineering specialization capability to support best in class product improvement design, cost out through design (VAVE), material substitutions, design quality improvements and codes and standards changes. This position implements improvements across diverse Automatic Transfer Switch products to increase manufacturing efficiency, including electrical/mechanical designs, providing support/direction to other Engineers/Designers, and collaboration with supply chain, manufacturing and quality. This role will also lead engineering standards development for repeat Custom Order Engineering (COE) Automatic Transfer Switch designs to reduce variability in manufacturing builds and support VAVE/Cost out activities and design related process improvements.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in 3D modeling/design for sheet metal, copper, and assemblies required.
• Bachelors in Mechanical, Mechatronics from an accredited institution
• Four (4) or more years of engineering experience preferred.
• Prior experience with electrical distribution equipment preferred.
• Prior experience with Automatic Transfer Switch products preferred.
• Fundamentals of Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial Engineering
• Strong communication skills in English (verbal and written) to communicate information effectively to customers, and technical staff
• Computer Literacy

Responsibilities

• Leads diverse sustaining engineering and VAVE projects across functions in support of the Automatic Transfer Switch Product Line
• Develops complex electrical and mechanical drawings and bills-of-material based upon established product designs, providing detail to accurately convey the equipment application and integrate into the manufacturing process.
• Supports day to day manufacturing operations from an ATS engineering PL perspective, including resolving part, component or BOM issues.
• Designs steel, copper, and various other material components for improved manufacturability utilizing 3D modeling and other advanced engineering methods and tools.
• Designs wiring and controls including manufacturing labeling and wire harnesses applications as needed.
• Leads and executes small/large projects to completion within project timelines with little or no supervision. Works to coordinate these projects with manufacturing engineering and assembly teams.
• Develops, maintains and applies best in class engineering techniques to solve problems and make design recommendations.
• Leads, identifies, and executes activities required to maintain a successful sustaining engineering function for the Automatic Transfer Switch Product Line.

Benefits

• Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Eaton Benefits Overview.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level