Lead Designer
Eaton· Electrical/electronic Manufacturing· Jul 16, 2026 · 3mo agoPosted 103 days ago
Greenwood, South Carolina, USA, 29646
In office
Full-time
Lead
$160K–$215K est.
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Open since July 16, 2026 — 103 days, and still accepting applications.
Job description
Eaton’s Electrical Division is currently seeking a Lead Designer to join our team. This position is based at our Greenwood, SC facility.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $56000 - $83000 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:
Perform engineered-to-order (ETO) design work in 2D and 3D CAD, create Bills of Material (BOMs), process engineering change notices and technical work in accordance with customer requirements, processing orders of varying complexity from receipt to completion. Provide guidance to ETO Engineers, Application and Proposal Engineers, Marketing, Sales, shop floor personnel, and Purchasing. After proving good decision making, this position will allow a fair amount of latitude in making independent design decisions. This role requires only moderate supervision, and work is approved by a Master Designer or ETO Engineer.
Essential Functions:
• Understand engineering/ drafting/ Designers toolsets, including SAP, PLM, AutoCAD, Inventor.
• Understand and adhere to Product Engineering procedures, part numbering and filing systems.
• Work with existing computer systems and data files to be knowledgeable of order status and requirements.
• Create bills of material and drawings for configurable product (CTO), based upon defined selection rules.
• Prepare drawing transmittal forms and guide the processing of requested drawings.
• Perform basic calculations and computations in accordance with established formulas or from specific instructions.
• Full review of each order, including customer specifications, quote, and purchase order with a focus on standard and non-standard technical requirements which affect design.
• Create/ manage moderate to complex ETO solutions and projects.
• Support ETO Engineers on customer phone calls.
• Create Construction drawings based upon sketches and references from an Engineer.
• Select/ create buyout specifications based upon descriptions provided in customer quote and specification.
• Work with Structural Engineer to determine proper member sizes, ensure structural integrity, and convert to detail and assembly drawings and BOMs with proper fit-up.
• Take a lead role in developing and updating department processes, procedures, and work instructions.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
• Associate’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates that currently reside within the immediate geographical area of 50 miles of Greenwood, SC will be considered. Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
• 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, H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, 1-485 job profitability, etc.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future\
Preferred Qualifications:
• Two years of work experience in mechanical design utilizing Inventor or other 3D modeling software.
Position Criteria
• Must possess ability to create 2D and 3D CAD drawings, Bills of Materials, Change Notices, Review Customer Specifications
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