Product Chief Engineer - Fuel and Hydraulic Distribution

About the role

Eaton’s IS AER FED division is seeking a Product Chief Engineer - Fuel and Hydraulic Distribution located at the Jackson, MI facility. Relocation benefits are provided within the United States only. The Product Chief Engineer serves as the senior technical authority for hose, tube, and connector product lines, providing technical leadership, risk assessment, and engineering guidance to ensure product performance, quality, reliability, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical authority for complex projects and programs within the product line by assessing completeness, compatibility, compliance, and technical risk.
• Consult as the product-line subject matter expert on complex assignments across the Division and Group.
• Establish and reinforce engineering expectations, best practices, and performance measures aligned with divisional and group-level objectives.
• Review product designs, technical deliverables, and verification activities for alignment with customer requirements, performance expectations, quality objectives, and cost targets.
• Assess trade-offs between business needs, technology requirements, cost, product-line risk, and customer requirements.
• Identify internal and external technical collaboration opportunities that enhance product-line capability and business performance.
• Present technical information, project status, risk assessments, and recommendations to senior technical and business leadership, including Group CTO and/or VP/GM level audiences.
• Recommend and evaluate engineering process improvements to improve technical quality, reliability, efficiency, and consistency of engineering output.
• Mentor and consult with engineering teams to strengthen technical capability, problem-solving effectiveness, and product-line knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of ten (10) years combined new product development and sustainment engineering experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years aerospace experience.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position (no CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.).
• This position requires access to export-controlled information; applicant must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158) to conform to U.S. Government export regulations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of new product development experience in the aerospace industry.
• Earned journeyman-level certification in Shainin Red-X problem-solving methodology or equivalent.
• Certified as a Design for Six Sigma Black Belt or actively pursuing certification.
• Experience working directly with customers to resolve complex technical issues.

Skills

• Deep technical knowledge of aerospace hose, tube, connector, and/or fuel and hydraulic distribution product functionality and design.
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