Power Electronics Engineering Manager

What you’ll do:

Eaton’s PE CoE accelerates the company’s growth through the development of power electronics technology platforms and common hardware building blocks that are scalable, cost-effective, and manufacturable as well as standardized design methodologies that can be adopted by multiple business units, which provides a foundation for our business to more rapidly develop innovative products.

This person will be responsible for not only leading and directing a team of engineers and internal projects but also performing designing and building innovative power electronics solutions for power conversion and protection.  This position requires a technically strong engineer with leadership skills capable of leading a cross functional team and collaborating with global teams.

The position will be a key member of the global PE CoE and play a key role in driving the development of technology platforms, common building blocks, and design methodologies to be leveraged by multiple business units. Position has up to 15% travel domestic and international.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 
•    Leads and directs a team of engineers and projects to achieve stated goals and objectives
•    Monitors and reports on overall performance of a team and projects. Creates performance-based culture encouraging the team to develop measurable goals and objectives that support PE CoE strategies.
•    Performs design, modeling, simulation and implementation of power electronics circuits for power conversion and protection
•    Develops the technical requirements for and identify components for the designs
•    Creates technical reports and presentations 
•    Initiates and develops solid relationships with both engineering and business leaders within Eaton to drive adoption of platforms, common designs, and state-of-the art design methodologies like model-based control development using MIL and HIL. 
•    Drives engineering excellence both in PE CoE and the BU’s teams.
•    Stays current with the latest power electronics technologies and business trends, applies knowledge to power conversion and protection applications, and creates new opportunities

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

-Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
-Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in power electronics design and product development, which may include academic or research experience.
-Minimum of 2 years of experience leading people.
-This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158.
-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

-Experience in Aerospace power electronics production development
-Significant modeling, simulation, and analysis experience with tools like Matlab/Simulink, SPICE, and PSIM 
-Hands-on experience with power converter development and testing 
-Broad knowledge in power electronics designs including topology, analog/digital circuit, thermal management, control, and firmware
-Experience in project management 
-Demonstrated knowledge of engineering processes
-Design for Six Sigma certification

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