Lead New Product Development Engineer
Eaton· Electrical/electronic Manufacturing· Jul 27, 2026 · 3mo agoPosted 92 days ago
Olean, New York, USA, 14760
In office
Full-time
Lead
$160K–$215K est.
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Job description
Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Lead New Product Development Engineer.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 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:
This high impact role is involved in the design and development of Arresters for Eaton’s Line Installation and Protective Equipment (LIPE) product line. In this role, creativity and innovation are focused on leading teams and developing new electro-mechanical product solutions for application on electrical power systems.
This role is a key contributor to cross functional project teams that push concepts through a formal project process. It is expected that you will have the ability to lead and execute small projects or serve as a core team member on large projects. This position works directly with a broad set of technologies including metal oxide varistors (MOVs), polymers, rubber moldings, castings, and metal fabrications. Assignments range in scope from high level system concepts to detailed sub-system development and analysis.
-Creatively and efficiently solve design challenges by understanding the elements within a design that are critical for success, while eliminating the non-value-added elements
-Ability to translate internal and external customer requirements into measurable performance criteria, as well as being able to identify and resolve poorly defined or missing requirements
-Develop sub-system functional and reliability test plans, and coordinate the execution of the tests using both internal and external lab resources
-Design for Cost/Design for Manufacture Analysis (DFM/DFA) on individual parts, subassemblies with the ability to propose alternate materials and methods of assembly and manufacture.
-Guide teams of development engineers on the business unit’s biggest projects
-Provide technical leadership across the business, even on unassigned projects and efforts
-Ideate, organize, and lead functional improvement efforts within the department and larger business
-Mentor engineers and technicians on best practices for all aspects of documentation and tolerance of design for manufacturing, allowing for both personal and organizational development
-Leads problem solving techniques to resolve root cause analysis. This includes problems related to customer concerns.
-Ability to travel up to 25% for customer visits, supplier visits and test lab facilities.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
-Minimum of five (5) years of experience in new product design of medium or high voltage electrical products.
-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:
-Bachelor’s degree in electrical or ceramic engineering from an accredited institution.
-Eight (8)+ years of experience in new product design of medium or high voltage electrical products
-Knowledge in the application of medium voltage electrical distribution equipment
-Knowledge of metal oxide varistor technology (arresters)
-Familiarity with and practiced in IEEE C62.11 and IEC 60099-4 applicable arrester standards.
-Familiarity with C Sharp, VBNet, SQL Management Programming
-Experience with engineering-related projects would be beneficial
-Kinematic/Dynamic Analysis experience would be an advantage
-Knowledge of power test equipment and measurement instrumentation
-Six Sigma green belt or black belt trained is desired
-Experience in Engineering analysis, digital simulation, and 3D modeling (CAD, FEA, statistical analysis, software applications, electrical/mechanical analysis tools, etc.) is preferred
-Product design, DFM/DFA, and manufacturing knowledge is helpful
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